Abnormal Psychology Exam Questions with Correct Answers (Grade
A+)
Question 1: Deviant
Answer: A person's behaviorwhose actions go against social norms, the context of their situation, and is
time-dependant.
Question 2: Distressful
Answer: causing emotional/physical pain and harm
Question 3: Dysfunctional
Answer: behavior has to be disturbing enough to disrupt daily life
Question 4: Medical Model
Answer:
1. the concept that diseases
2. in this case psychological disorders
3. have physical causes that can be diagnosed
4. treated
5. and
6. in most cases
7. cured
8. often through treatment in a hospital.
Question 5: DSM-V
Answer: a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders; addresses the signs and symptoms
but not the causes
Question 6: Psychotherapy
Answer: Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist
and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.
Question 7: Biomedical Therapy
Answer: prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system
Question 8: Ecletic Approach
Answer: An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from
various forms of therapy.
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, Question 9: Psychoanalysis
Answer: Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and
conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret
unconscious tensions
Question 10: Free Association
Answer: In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says
whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.
Question 11: Resistance
Answer: In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
Question 12: Transferance
Answer: The process by which a person unconsciously and inappropriately displaces (transfers) onto
individuals in his or her current life those patterns of behavior and emotional reactions that originated in
relation to significant figures in childhood
Question 13: Client-Centered Therapy
Answer: A humanistic therapy based on Carl Roger's beliefs that an individual has an unlimited capacity for
psychological growth and will continue to grow unless barriers are placed in the way.
Question 14: Characteristics needed in client-centered therapists
Answer: empathy, positive regard, and genuiness
Question 15: Active listening
Answer: Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers'
client-centered therapy.
Question 16: Cognitive Therapy
Answer: Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the
assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.
Question 17: Self-Serving bias
Answer: The tendency to attribute one's success to internal factors while attributing one's failures to external
factors. Not present in depressed people.
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A+)
Question 1: Deviant
Answer: A person's behaviorwhose actions go against social norms, the context of their situation, and is
time-dependant.
Question 2: Distressful
Answer: causing emotional/physical pain and harm
Question 3: Dysfunctional
Answer: behavior has to be disturbing enough to disrupt daily life
Question 4: Medical Model
Answer:
1. the concept that diseases
2. in this case psychological disorders
3. have physical causes that can be diagnosed
4. treated
5. and
6. in most cases
7. cured
8. often through treatment in a hospital.
Question 5: DSM-V
Answer: a widely used system for classifying psychological disorders; addresses the signs and symptoms
but not the causes
Question 6: Psychotherapy
Answer: Treatment involving psychological techniques; consists of interactions between a trained therapist
and someone seeking to overcome psychological difficulties or achieve personal growth.
Question 7: Biomedical Therapy
Answer: prescribed medications or medical procedures that act directly on the patient's nervous system
Question 8: Ecletic Approach
Answer: An approach to psychotherapy that, depending on the client's problems, uses techniques from
various forms of therapy.
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, Question 9: Psychoanalysis
Answer: Freud's theory of personality that attributes thoughts and actions to unconscious motives and
conflicts; the techniques used in treating psychological disorders by seeking to expose and interpret
unconscious tensions
Question 10: Free Association
Answer: In psychoanalysis, a method of exploring the unconscious in which the person relaxes and says
whatever comes to mind, no matter how trivial or embarrassing.
Question 11: Resistance
Answer: In psychoanalysis, the blocking from consciousness of anxiety-laden material.
Question 12: Transferance
Answer: The process by which a person unconsciously and inappropriately displaces (transfers) onto
individuals in his or her current life those patterns of behavior and emotional reactions that originated in
relation to significant figures in childhood
Question 13: Client-Centered Therapy
Answer: A humanistic therapy based on Carl Roger's beliefs that an individual has an unlimited capacity for
psychological growth and will continue to grow unless barriers are placed in the way.
Question 14: Characteristics needed in client-centered therapists
Answer: empathy, positive regard, and genuiness
Question 15: Active listening
Answer: Empathic listening in which the listener echoes, restates, and clarifies. A feature of Rogers'
client-centered therapy.
Question 16: Cognitive Therapy
Answer: Therapy that teaches people new, more adaptive ways of thinking and acting; based on the
assumption that thoughts intervene between events and our emotional reactions.
Question 17: Self-Serving bias
Answer: The tendency to attribute one's success to internal factors while attributing one's failures to external
factors. Not present in depressed people.
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