Ch2 P&T

Question 1

Dimensional models of psychopathology

Answer 1

The ways in which typical feelings, thoughts, and behaviors gradually become more serious problems, which then may intensify and become clinically diagnosable disorders

Question 2

Categorical models of psychopathology

Answer 2

Discrete and qualitative differences in individual patterns of emotion, cognition, and behavior

Question 3

Physiological models

Answer 3

There is a physiological (i.e., genetic, structural, biological, or chemical) basis for all psychological processes and events.