Chapter 14

Question 1

What is the medical model? How is it used to understand abnormal behavior?

Answer 1

Medical model: Proposed that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease.
Without the medical model, people thought of abnormal behavior as being possessed by demons, to be witches in league with the devil, or victims of God’s punishment

Question 2

What do diagnosis, etiology, and prognosis mean?

Answer 2

Diagnosis: Distinguishing one illness from another
Etiology: The apparent causation and developmental history of an illness
Prognosis: A forecast about the probable course of an illness

Question 3

How do we know if a person has a disorder? In other words, what guidelines do psychologists use to determine abnormality? (Hint: there are three determinants of abnormality.)

Answer 3

Deviance, Maladaptive behavior, and personal distress