Abnormal psychology questions with
correct answers
the stated and unstated rules for proper conduct that a society establishes are referred
to as ✅✅norms
the history, values, institutions, habits, skills, technology, and art of a society make up
that society's ✅✅culture
Behavior that violates legal norms is: ✅✅deviant and criminal
George hears voices that others do not but is not distressed by them. This illustrates
that: ✅✅distress does not have to be present for a person's behavior to be
considered abnormal
Which aspect of the definition of abnormality includes the inability to care for oneself
and work productively? ✅✅dysfunction
Despite popular misconceptions, most people with psychological problems are not:
✅✅dangerous
in the early asylums, treatment for mental illnesses began with the intention to provide:
✅✅care and treatment
the american schoolteacher who lobbied state legislatures for laws to mandate humane
treatment of people with mental disorders ✅✅Dorothea Dix
Acquiring insight about unconscious psychological processes is a feature of:
✅✅psychoanalysis
Which BEST reflects the impact of deinstitutionalization? ✅✅not so well; many
people with severe disturbances are in jail or on the street
in the united states today, one is MOST likely to find severely ill mental patient: ✅✅on
the street or in jail
the principle of informed consent assumes that ✅✅the participant can understand the
explanation
the function of the double-blind design is to guard against ✅✅participant and
experimenter biases
a "fake" pill is used as the control condition in a drug study is a ✅✅placebo variable
correct answers
the stated and unstated rules for proper conduct that a society establishes are referred
to as ✅✅norms
the history, values, institutions, habits, skills, technology, and art of a society make up
that society's ✅✅culture
Behavior that violates legal norms is: ✅✅deviant and criminal
George hears voices that others do not but is not distressed by them. This illustrates
that: ✅✅distress does not have to be present for a person's behavior to be
considered abnormal
Which aspect of the definition of abnormality includes the inability to care for oneself
and work productively? ✅✅dysfunction
Despite popular misconceptions, most people with psychological problems are not:
✅✅dangerous
in the early asylums, treatment for mental illnesses began with the intention to provide:
✅✅care and treatment
the american schoolteacher who lobbied state legislatures for laws to mandate humane
treatment of people with mental disorders ✅✅Dorothea Dix
Acquiring insight about unconscious psychological processes is a feature of:
✅✅psychoanalysis
Which BEST reflects the impact of deinstitutionalization? ✅✅not so well; many
people with severe disturbances are in jail or on the street
in the united states today, one is MOST likely to find severely ill mental patient: ✅✅on
the street or in jail
the principle of informed consent assumes that ✅✅the participant can understand the
explanation
the function of the double-blind design is to guard against ✅✅participant and
experimenter biases
a "fake" pill is used as the control condition in a drug study is a ✅✅placebo variable
