Abnormal Psychology (Hooley) | Midterm Chapters (1-3, 6-8) Questions and Answers with 100% Correct Answers | Latest Version

Abnormal Psychology (Hooley) | Midterm Chapters (1-3, 6-8)
Questions and Answers with 100% Correct Answers | Latest Version

Question 1.
concerned with understanding the nature, causes, and treatment of mental disorders.

Correct Answer: Abnormal PSychology


Question 2.
Family aggregation

Correct Answer: whether a disorder runs in families


Question 3.
social distress, maladaptiveness, statistical deviancy, violation of the standards of society,
social discomfort, irrationality and unpredictability, dangerousness.

Correct Answer: Indicators of Abnormality


Question 4.
Subjective Distress

Correct Answer: if people suffer of experience psychological pain


Question 5.
this behavior interferes with our well-being and with our ability to enjoy our work and our
relationships. (not all disorders involve this)

Correct Answer: Maladaptiveness


Question 6.
Statistical Deviancy

Correct Answer: away from the normal, statistically rare and undesirable


Question 7.
when people fail to follow the conventional social and moral rules of their cultural group

Correct Answer: Violation of the Standards of Society


Question 8.
when someone violates an implicit or unwritten social rule, those around him or her may
experience a sense of discomfort or unease

Correct Answer: social discomfort


Question 9.
Irrationality and unpredictability

,Correct Answer: behavior or states of mind that are so out of the expected and
ordinary that it impairs one's participation in the culture


Question 10.
Dangerousness

Correct Answer: a person's potential for doing harm to the self or to others


Question 11.
nomenclature

Correct Answer: naming system


Question 12.
Stigma

Correct Answer: disgrace


Question 13.
Stereotyping

Correct Answer:


Question 14.
diagnostic label can be hard to shake as it becomes ingrained into their self concept

Correct Answer: labeling


Question 15.
DSM-5 defintion of mental disorder

Correct Answer: a mental disorder is defined as a syndrome that is present in an
individual and that involves clinically significant disturbance in behavior,
emotion regulation, or cognitive functioning. These disturbances are thought to
reflect a dysfunction in biological, psychological, or developmental processes
that are necessary for mental functioning.


Question 16.
the study of the distribution of diseases, disorders, or health related behaviors in a given
population.

Correct Answer: Epidemiology


Question 17.
The number or proportion of cases of a particular disease or condition present in a
population at a given time.

Correct Answer: Prevalence

, Question 18.
the estimated proportion of actual, active cases of a disorder in a given population at a
given point in time

Correct Answer: point prevalence


Question 19.
the total number of cases of a health-related state or condition in a population for a given
year

Correct Answer: 1-year prevalence


Question 20.
estimate of the number of people who have had a particular disorder at any time in their
lives

Correct Answer: lifetime prevalence


Question 21.
refers to the number of new cases that occur over a given period of time (typically 1 year)

Correct Answer: Incidence


Question 22.
Comorbidity

Correct Answer: the co-occurrence of two or more disorders in a single
individual


Question 23.
Acute symptoms

Correct Answer: short duration


Question 24.
Chronic Symptoms

Correct Answer: long duration


Question 25.
Etiology

Correct Answer: causes of disorders


Question 26.
an observation technique in which one person is studied in depth in the hope of revealing
universal principles (subject to bias, low generalizability)

Correct Answer: Case study