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Midterm PSY 657 Psychopathology. Exam
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Abnormal Psychology - Answer✔The field of psychology concerned with the assessment,
treatment, and prevention of maladaptive or abnormal behavior.
-Concerned with understanding the nature, causes, and treatments of mental disorders
Psychopathology - Answer✔Field of people trained in abnormal psychology
Mental Disorder - Answer✔a syndrome that is present in an individual and that involves a
clinically significant disturbance in behavior, emotion regulation, or cognitive functioning. These
disturbances are thought to reflect dysfunction in biological, psychological, or developmental
processes that are necessary for mental functioning
Indicators of Abnormality - Answer✔1. Subjective Distress
2. Maladaptiveness
3. Statistical Deviancy
4. Violation of the Standards of Society
5. Social Discomfort
6. Irrationality and Unpredictability
7. Dangerousness
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Subjective Distress - Answer✔Someone suffers/experiences psychological pain
-Neither a sufficient condition (all that's needed) nor even a necessary condition (feature that
all cases of abnormality must show)
Maladaptiveness - Answer✔Behavior that interferes with our well-being and with our ability to
enjoy our work and relationships
-Not all disorders involve maladaptive behavior
Statistical Deviancy - Answer✔Comparing an individual's behavior to the frequency of
occurrence of the same behavior in the general population
-Statistically rare behavior
-Value judgments (something statistically rare and undesirable like an intellectual disability is
abnormal, vs something statistically rare and highly desirable like a genius)
violations of standards of society - Answer✔Laws, cultural rules, norms, and moral standards
we are taught to follow
-When people fail to follow these things, we consider their behavior abnormal
-Violation depends on the magnitude and how commonly the rule is violated by others (i.e.
parking illegally is not considered abnormal b/c so common vs a mother drowning her children)
social discomfort - Answer✔when someone violates an implicit or unwritten social rule, those
around him or her may experience a sense of discomfort or unease
Irrationality and Unpredictability - Answer✔When we expect people to behave in certain ways
but someone has unorthodox abnormal behavior
-The most important factor is if a person can control their behavior
-Schizophrenic or manic phases of bipolar disorder
Dangerousness - Answer✔Danger to oneself or others
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Midterm PSY 657 Psychopathology. Exam
Questions And Answers |Latest 2025 |
Guaranteed Pass.
Abnormal Psychology - Answer✔The field of psychology concerned with the assessment,
treatment, and prevention of maladaptive or abnormal behavior.
-Concerned with understanding the nature, causes, and treatments of mental disorders
Psychopathology - Answer✔Field of people trained in abnormal psychology
Mental Disorder - Answer✔a syndrome that is present in an individual and that involves a
clinically significant disturbance in behavior, emotion regulation, or cognitive functioning. These
disturbances are thought to reflect dysfunction in biological, psychological, or developmental
processes that are necessary for mental functioning
Indicators of Abnormality - Answer✔1. Subjective Distress
2. Maladaptiveness
3. Statistical Deviancy
4. Violation of the Standards of Society
5. Social Discomfort
6. Irrationality and Unpredictability
7. Dangerousness
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Subjective Distress - Answer✔Someone suffers/experiences psychological pain
-Neither a sufficient condition (all that's needed) nor even a necessary condition (feature that
all cases of abnormality must show)
Maladaptiveness - Answer✔Behavior that interferes with our well-being and with our ability to
enjoy our work and relationships
-Not all disorders involve maladaptive behavior
Statistical Deviancy - Answer✔Comparing an individual's behavior to the frequency of
occurrence of the same behavior in the general population
-Statistically rare behavior
-Value judgments (something statistically rare and undesirable like an intellectual disability is
abnormal, vs something statistically rare and highly desirable like a genius)
violations of standards of society - Answer✔Laws, cultural rules, norms, and moral standards
we are taught to follow
-When people fail to follow these things, we consider their behavior abnormal
-Violation depends on the magnitude and how commonly the rule is violated by others (i.e.
parking illegally is not considered abnormal b/c so common vs a mother drowning her children)
social discomfort - Answer✔when someone violates an implicit or unwritten social rule, those
around him or her may experience a sense of discomfort or unease
Irrationality and Unpredictability - Answer✔When we expect people to behave in certain ways
but someone has unorthodox abnormal behavior
-The most important factor is if a person can control their behavior
-Schizophrenic or manic phases of bipolar disorder
Dangerousness - Answer✔Danger to oneself or others
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