Chapter 12: Psychological Disorders - Module 38: Normal Versus Abnormal

Question 1

T/F: There is one established definition of abnormality.

Answer 1

False. (p. 445, 446)

Question 2

Kenneth Parks’ murder of his mother-in-law while sleep-walking was pardoned on the basis of what definition of abnormality?

Answer 2

Abnormality as a legal concept. (p. 446)

Question 3

Can abnormal behaviour be better described as two ends of a continuum, or as an absolute state?

Answer 3

Two ends of a continuum. (p. 448)

Question 4

Which perspective on abnormality suggests that when an individual displays symptoms of abnormal behaviour, the fundamental cause will be found through a physical examination, maybe revealing a hormone imbalance, chemical deficiency, or brain injury.

Answer 4

Medical perspective (on psychology disorders). (p. 449)

Question 5

Which perspective on abnormality views the behaviour itself as the problem?

Answer 5

Behavioural perspective (p. 449)

Question 6

Which perspective on abnormality holds that abnormal behaviour stems from childhood conflicts over opposing wishes regarding sex and aggression?

Answer 6

Psychoanalytic perspective (p. 449)

Question 7

What is the greatest strength, and the greated weakness of the behavioural perspective?

Answer 7

It relies on observable behaviour. (p. 450)

Question 8

Which perspective on abnormality assumes that peoples’ thoughts and beliefs are central to a person’s abnormal behaviours?

Answer 8

Cognitive perspective (p. 450)

Question 9

Which perspective on abnormality emphasizes the responsibility people have for their own behaviour?

Answer 9

Humanistic. (p. 450)

Question 10

Which perspective on abnormality assumes peoples’ behaviour is shaped by the groups and cultures in which they live?

Answer 10

Sociocultural. (p. 450)

Question 11

In Dr. Cynthia Wesley-Esquimaux’s (2018) Circle of trauma, what are the four factors?

Answer 11

Physical, mental, emotional spiritual (p. 451)

Question 12

T/F: schizophrenia diagnoses tend to be more common amoung members of lower socioeconomic groups.

Answer 12

True (p. 542)

Question 13

What is the DSM-5?

Answer 13

A classification system used as a diagnostic standard in North America. “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition. (p. 452)

Question 14

T/F: The DSM-5 suggests underlying causes for disorders.

Answer 14

False (p. 453. p 453 has the major categories of disorders)

Question 15

David Rosenhan conducted which test, and what did it attest to?

Answer 15

The one with the impostors/people pretending to have mental illness, displaying how labels placed on individuals powerfully influence the way mental health workers perceive and interpret their actions (p. 454)