Abnormal Psychology | Ch. 1-3 Questions and Answers with
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Question 1.
Discuss the "four Ds" of Abnormal Psychology; how does culture play a role in labeling a
behavior as deviant?
Correct Answer: Deviance: Different, unusual, extreme Distress: unpleasant or
upsetting to the person Deviance: interfering with normal daily activities
Danger: Posing risk in harm -------------------------------------------- Judgments of
abnormality vary from society to society as norms grow from a particular culture
Question 2.
Contrast a medical model approach to abnormality with a statistical model
Correct Answer: Medical approach to abnormality means abnormal behavior is
defined as behavior that has a biological (physical) cause and can be diagnosed
and treated Statistical model approach to abnormality means any behavior or
characteristic in a large group of individuals is distributed in a particular way;
that is, in a normal distribution.
Question 3.
Define what Abnormal psychology is
Correct Answer: The scientific study of abnormal behavior in an effort to
describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning
Question 4.
What are the three essential features of therapy?
Correct Answer: - A sufferer who seeks relief from the healer
- A trained, socially accepted healer, whose expertise is accepted by the sufferer
and his or her social group
- A series of contacts between the healer and the sufferer, through which the
healer... tries to produce certain changes in the sufferer's emotional state,
attitudes, and behavior
Question 5.
List ancient views of "treatments" for mental disorders (in- clude trephining, humors, and
Bedlam in your answer).
Correct Answer: -Greek and roman ages: Hippocrates believed and taught that
illnesses had natural causes; He looked to an unbalance of the four fluids, or
humors -Europe/middle ages: The church rejected scientific forms of
investigation, and it controlled all education through demonology -The
Renaissance: Across Europe, religious shrines were devoted to the humane and
loving treatment of people with mental disorders; then
, Question 6.
Discuss the role of the following people in the history of Abnormal Psychology: Pinel, Tuke,
Dix, Kraepelin, Rush, Socrates, Hippocrates, Aristotle and Plato.
Correct Answer: -Pinel: The first chief physician for the asylum located in
France. Argued that the mentally challenged people should not be in chains and
receive beatings, rather than, they should show sympathy and kindness -Tuke:
Founder of York Retreat and treated patients with a combination of rest, talk,
prayer, and manual work. -Dix: Boston schoolteacher who made human care
more of a public and
political concern in the U.S. Believed in moral treatment -Kraeplein: A German
researcher who published a book arguing that physical factors (e.g. fatigue) are
responsible for mental dysfunction -Rush: Father of American psychiatry;
developed humane approaches to treatment -Hippocrates: Often called the
father of medicine, taught illnesses as natural causes. Saw mental illness as
uprising from internal physical illness -Aristotle/Plato: shared ideas with
Hippocrates about the internal focus on abnormality.
Question 7.
Distinguish the somatogenic perspective from the psychogenic one.
Correct Answer: -Somatogenic perspective: Abnormal functioning has physical
causes -Psychogenic perspective: Abnormal functioning has psychological
causes
Question 8.
How have psychotropic medications, deinstitutionalization, positive psychology, and
managed care programs affected modern populations of mentally ill people?
Correct Answer: - Nevertheless, the past 50 years have brought major changes
in the ways clinicians understand and treat abnormal functioning. There are
more available options for patients to seek help their abnormal behavior.
Question 9.
Discuss the profiles of mental health professionals in the United States.
Correct Answer: - see picture (slide 39 lecture 1)
Question 10.
Define hypothesis
Correct Answer: -Hypothesis: a hunch or a prediction that certain variables are
related in certain ways
100% Correct Answers | Latest Version
Question 1.
Discuss the "four Ds" of Abnormal Psychology; how does culture play a role in labeling a
behavior as deviant?
Correct Answer: Deviance: Different, unusual, extreme Distress: unpleasant or
upsetting to the person Deviance: interfering with normal daily activities
Danger: Posing risk in harm -------------------------------------------- Judgments of
abnormality vary from society to society as norms grow from a particular culture
Question 2.
Contrast a medical model approach to abnormality with a statistical model
Correct Answer: Medical approach to abnormality means abnormal behavior is
defined as behavior that has a biological (physical) cause and can be diagnosed
and treated Statistical model approach to abnormality means any behavior or
characteristic in a large group of individuals is distributed in a particular way;
that is, in a normal distribution.
Question 3.
Define what Abnormal psychology is
Correct Answer: The scientific study of abnormal behavior in an effort to
describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning
Question 4.
What are the three essential features of therapy?
Correct Answer: - A sufferer who seeks relief from the healer
- A trained, socially accepted healer, whose expertise is accepted by the sufferer
and his or her social group
- A series of contacts between the healer and the sufferer, through which the
healer... tries to produce certain changes in the sufferer's emotional state,
attitudes, and behavior
Question 5.
List ancient views of "treatments" for mental disorders (in- clude trephining, humors, and
Bedlam in your answer).
Correct Answer: -Greek and roman ages: Hippocrates believed and taught that
illnesses had natural causes; He looked to an unbalance of the four fluids, or
humors -Europe/middle ages: The church rejected scientific forms of
investigation, and it controlled all education through demonology -The
Renaissance: Across Europe, religious shrines were devoted to the humane and
loving treatment of people with mental disorders; then
, Question 6.
Discuss the role of the following people in the history of Abnormal Psychology: Pinel, Tuke,
Dix, Kraepelin, Rush, Socrates, Hippocrates, Aristotle and Plato.
Correct Answer: -Pinel: The first chief physician for the asylum located in
France. Argued that the mentally challenged people should not be in chains and
receive beatings, rather than, they should show sympathy and kindness -Tuke:
Founder of York Retreat and treated patients with a combination of rest, talk,
prayer, and manual work. -Dix: Boston schoolteacher who made human care
more of a public and
political concern in the U.S. Believed in moral treatment -Kraeplein: A German
researcher who published a book arguing that physical factors (e.g. fatigue) are
responsible for mental dysfunction -Rush: Father of American psychiatry;
developed humane approaches to treatment -Hippocrates: Often called the
father of medicine, taught illnesses as natural causes. Saw mental illness as
uprising from internal physical illness -Aristotle/Plato: shared ideas with
Hippocrates about the internal focus on abnormality.
Question 7.
Distinguish the somatogenic perspective from the psychogenic one.
Correct Answer: -Somatogenic perspective: Abnormal functioning has physical
causes -Psychogenic perspective: Abnormal functioning has psychological
causes
Question 8.
How have psychotropic medications, deinstitutionalization, positive psychology, and
managed care programs affected modern populations of mentally ill people?
Correct Answer: - Nevertheless, the past 50 years have brought major changes
in the ways clinicians understand and treat abnormal functioning. There are
more available options for patients to seek help their abnormal behavior.
Question 9.
Discuss the profiles of mental health professionals in the United States.
Correct Answer: - see picture (slide 39 lecture 1)
Question 10.
Define hypothesis
Correct Answer: -Hypothesis: a hunch or a prediction that certain variables are
related in certain ways
