Chapter 1

Question 1

What is abnormal psychology?

Answer 1

The scientific study of abnormal behaviour undertaken to describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning

Question 2

What are norms?

Answer 2

A society’s stated and unstated rules for proper conduct

Question 3

What is a culture?

Answer 3

A people’s common history, values, institutions, habits, skills, technology, and arts

Question 4

What is treatment?

Answer 4

A systematic procedure designed to change abnormal behaviour into more normal behaviour- also called therapy

Question 5

What is trephination?

Answer 5

An ancient operation in which a stone instrument was used to cut away a circular section of the skull to treat abnormal behaviour

Question 6

What are humours?

Answer 6

According to the Greeks and Romans, bodily chemicals influence mental and physical functioning

Question 7

What are asylums?

Answer 7

A type of institution that first became popular in the sixteenth century to provide care for persons with mental disorders. Most asylums became virtual prisons

Question 8

What is moral treatment?

Answer 8

A nineteenth-century approach to treating people with mental dysfunction that emphasized moral guidance and human and respectful treatment

Question 9

What are state hospitals?

Answer 9

State-run public mental institutions in the United States

Question 10

What is the somatogenic perspective?

Answer 10

The view that abnormal functioning has physical causes

Question 11

What is the psychogenic perspective?

Answer 11

The view that the chief causes of abnormal functioning are psychological

Question 12

What is psychoanalysis?

Answer 12

Either the theory or the treatment of abnormal mental functioning that emphasized unconscious psychological forces as the cause of psychopathology

Question 13

What are psychotropic medications?

Answer 13

Drugs that mainly affect the brain and reduce many symptoms of mental dysfunction

Question 14

What is deinstitutionalization?

Answer 14

The practice, begun in the 1960s, of releasing hundreds of thousands of patients from public mental hospitals

Question 15

What is private psychotherapy?

Answer 15

An arrangement in which a person directly pays a therapist for counselling services

Question 16

What is prevention?

Answer 16

Interventions aimed at deterring mental disorders before they can develop

Question 17

What is positive psychology?

Answer 17

The study and enhancement of positive feelings, traits, and abilities

Question 18

What is multicultural psychology

Answer 18

The field that examines the impact of culture, race, ethnicity, and gender on behaviours and thoughts, and focuses on how such factors may influence the origin, nature, and treatment of abnormal behaviour

Question 19

What is a managed care program?

Answer 19

Health care coverage in which the insurance company largely controls the nature, scope, and a cost of medical or psychological services

Question 20

What is telemental health?

Answer 20

The use of remote technologies, such as long-distance video conferencing, to deliver mental health services without the therapist being physically present