Chapter 1

Question 1

Psychological Abnormality

Answer 1

behaviour, speech, or thought that impairs the ability of a person to function in a way that is generally expected of them in the context where the unusual functioning occurs

Question 2

A psychological disorder (mental Disorder)

Answer 2

a specific manifestation of this impairment of functioning, as described by some set of criteria that have been established by a panel of experts.

Question 3

Mental illness

Answer 3

term often used to convey the same meaning as psychopathology, but it implies a medical rather than psychological cause.

Question 4

Maladaptive behaviour

Answer 4

Behaviour that interferes with appropriate functioning

Question 5

Clinical psychologists:

Answer 5

are initially trained in general psychology and then receive graduate training in the application of this knowledge to the understanding, assessment, diagnosis, and amelioration of disorders of thinking and behaviour.

Question 6

Neurasthenia

Answer 6

A condition that includes many of the physical symptoms of depression and is diagnosed in Asia but mostly abandoned in the West.

Question 7

Psychologists

Answer 7

have a thorough grounding in research methods, and some of them spend their careers doing research on abnormal functioning, although many also provide treatment.

Question 8

Psychiatrists