PSYC 211 Ch 1

Question 1

abnormal behavior

Answer 1

a behavior that is culturally inappropriate and causes subjective distress

Question 2

cultural appropriateness

Answer 2

what is considered normal in a social group of specific people

Question 3

subjective distress

Answer 3

negative feelings caused by a person’s internal processes that are not always visible to the observer

Question 4

psychological disability

Answer 4

a mental disorder or condition on a continuum of severity that impairs every day functioning and reactions to stressors

Question 5

mental health

Answer 5

freedom from psychological disablity

Question 6

naming fallacy

Answer 6

the belief that naming, or labeling a thing explains it entirely

Question 7

mental disorder

Answer 7

“a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual’s cognition, emotional regulation, or behavior that reflects dysfunction in the psychological, biological or developmental processes underlying mental function” -DSM5

Question 8

diagnostic reliability

Answer 8

consistent agreement between clinicians on how a diagnostic label is used