PSY 352 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Psychological Models - Answ✔✔
1. Psychodynamic (Freud)
2. Behavioral
3. Cognitive
4. Humanistic
5. Existential/spiritual
Psychosexual development theory - Answ✔✔Different stages where the libido (source of sexual
pleasure)
1. Oral
2. Anal (retentive/uptight, expulsive/messy)
3. Phallic (*Oedipus complex and Penal envy)
4. Latency (late childhood, less mental illness, libido is resting)
5. Genital (Adult)
*If you don't resolve the emotional issues at each stage, you get stuck there
Most important construct in Freudian theory - Answ✔✔The Unconscious Mind
(represented by an iceberg)
-conscious part is just the tip of the iceberg
-id
-ego
-superego
According to the course syllabus, what does research tell us about when to listen to the lecture relative
to when to do the reading? - Answ✔✔View the lecture first, then do the reading
What is abnormal psychology? - Answ✔✔Scientific study of human behavior that is rare, unusual,
bizarre, distressing, harmful, or maladaptive
,-difference between abnormal psych and just weird behaviors
-complicated and ambiguous
-influenced by history and social context
-probabilistic not deterministic
What other characteristics do you need to know to determine abnormality? - Answ✔✔-Context matters
-understand what it is in response to
-understand what we define normal
What is Dr. B's primary area of research? - Answ✔✔Families who own guns/gun behavior
How would you describe deviance? - Answ✔✔It is not a neutral concept. It has moral judgments and
stigma
Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) - Answ✔✔Categorizes and defines mental illnesses
-over 400 disorders
-diagnoses across a wide range
Mental Illness Stigma - Answ✔✔Has the ability to swamp people and make them feel like it's their
identity
-We're not diagnosing people. We're diagnosing symptoms
Would abnormal psychology include desirable behavior that goes too far? Can one be too
compassionate? - Answ✔✔Yes if it interferes with a normal life. We need to understand people's
experiences, environment, context
How should we decide if a particular behavior is abnormal? - Answ✔✔-Gender-bender wedding
-SASP (Super Achieving Stress Puppies)
-Schadenfreude (joy in another person's suffering)
, Gender-bender wedding - Answ✔✔Just because it makes you uncomfortable, does not make it
abnormal
Conceptual Definitions of Abnormal Psychology - Answ✔✔-Deviation from what is considered normal in
a sociocultural context (Clinicians need to learn/listen to patients culture)
-Statistical deviation
-deviation from ideal mental health
Cultural Perspectives - Answ✔✔-shared learned behavior
-generation to generation transmission
-cultural universality
-cultural relativism
Cultural Universality - Answ✔✔Origins, processes, manifestation of disorders are the same across
cultures
*One of the errors of Freud. he was culturally bounded by his own ideas
Cultural relativism - Answ✔✔Origins, processes, manifestation of disorders are different/vary across
cultures
Practical Definitions - Answ✔✔1. Discomfort
2. Deviance
3. Dysfunction
Discomfort - Answ✔✔physical/psychological pain or distress
*both the patient or others
Deviance - Answ✔✔Bizarre/unusual behavior
*Implies some danger
ANSWERS
Psychological Models - Answ✔✔
1. Psychodynamic (Freud)
2. Behavioral
3. Cognitive
4. Humanistic
5. Existential/spiritual
Psychosexual development theory - Answ✔✔Different stages where the libido (source of sexual
pleasure)
1. Oral
2. Anal (retentive/uptight, expulsive/messy)
3. Phallic (*Oedipus complex and Penal envy)
4. Latency (late childhood, less mental illness, libido is resting)
5. Genital (Adult)
*If you don't resolve the emotional issues at each stage, you get stuck there
Most important construct in Freudian theory - Answ✔✔The Unconscious Mind
(represented by an iceberg)
-conscious part is just the tip of the iceberg
-id
-ego
-superego
According to the course syllabus, what does research tell us about when to listen to the lecture relative
to when to do the reading? - Answ✔✔View the lecture first, then do the reading
What is abnormal psychology? - Answ✔✔Scientific study of human behavior that is rare, unusual,
bizarre, distressing, harmful, or maladaptive
,-difference between abnormal psych and just weird behaviors
-complicated and ambiguous
-influenced by history and social context
-probabilistic not deterministic
What other characteristics do you need to know to determine abnormality? - Answ✔✔-Context matters
-understand what it is in response to
-understand what we define normal
What is Dr. B's primary area of research? - Answ✔✔Families who own guns/gun behavior
How would you describe deviance? - Answ✔✔It is not a neutral concept. It has moral judgments and
stigma
Diagnostic Statistical Manual (DSM) - Answ✔✔Categorizes and defines mental illnesses
-over 400 disorders
-diagnoses across a wide range
Mental Illness Stigma - Answ✔✔Has the ability to swamp people and make them feel like it's their
identity
-We're not diagnosing people. We're diagnosing symptoms
Would abnormal psychology include desirable behavior that goes too far? Can one be too
compassionate? - Answ✔✔Yes if it interferes with a normal life. We need to understand people's
experiences, environment, context
How should we decide if a particular behavior is abnormal? - Answ✔✔-Gender-bender wedding
-SASP (Super Achieving Stress Puppies)
-Schadenfreude (joy in another person's suffering)
, Gender-bender wedding - Answ✔✔Just because it makes you uncomfortable, does not make it
abnormal
Conceptual Definitions of Abnormal Psychology - Answ✔✔-Deviation from what is considered normal in
a sociocultural context (Clinicians need to learn/listen to patients culture)
-Statistical deviation
-deviation from ideal mental health
Cultural Perspectives - Answ✔✔-shared learned behavior
-generation to generation transmission
-cultural universality
-cultural relativism
Cultural Universality - Answ✔✔Origins, processes, manifestation of disorders are the same across
cultures
*One of the errors of Freud. he was culturally bounded by his own ideas
Cultural relativism - Answ✔✔Origins, processes, manifestation of disorders are different/vary across
cultures
Practical Definitions - Answ✔✔1. Discomfort
2. Deviance
3. Dysfunction
Discomfort - Answ✔✔physical/psychological pain or distress
*both the patient or others
Deviance - Answ✔✔Bizarre/unusual behavior
*Implies some danger
