Abnormal Psych | Midterm Ch's 1-6 Questions and Answers with 100% Correct Answers | Latest Version

Abnormal Psych | Midterm Ch's 1-6 Questions and Answers with
100% Correct Answers | Latest Version

Question 1.
the study of abnormal psychology is the study of people who suffer mental, emotional, and
often physical pain. This is also referred to as ____.

Correct Answer: Psychopathology


Question 2.
When an observer takes into account the context or circumstances surrounding someone's
behavior to determine whether they are normal or abnormal, it means that:

Correct Answer: the observer considers the behavior normal if it seems
appropriate for that particular situation.


Question 3.
What criterion for abnormality implies that the presence of a disease is causing given
behavior?

Correct Answer: Mental Illness


Question 4.
What are the 4 D's of abnormality?

Correct Answer: dysfunction, distress, deviance, and dangerousness.


Question 5.
Yin and Yang (+/-) forces are concepts from Ancient ____.

Correct Answer: China


Question 6.
Most Greeks and Romans saw madness as:

Correct Answer: an affliction from the gods


Question 7.
Hippocrates attributed abnormality to:

Correct Answer: imbalances in bodily humors.


Question 8.
A phenomenon in which large numbers of people engage in unusual behaviors that appear
to have a psychological origin

Correct Answer: Psychic Epidemics