Psychopathology- Failure To Function Adequately✅

Question 1

Define failure to function adequately

Answer 1

A person is unable to live a normal life, unable to experience the normal range of emotions or engage in the normal range of behaviour

Question 2

Describe failure to function adequately

Answer 2

A person is considered abnormal if they’re unable to cope with demands of everyday life. They may be unable to perform behaviours necessary for day to day living

Question 3

Examples of failure to function adequately

Answer 3

Unable to keep a job, unable to take care of themselves

Question 4

Rosenhan & seligman

Answer 4

Proposed 7 major features which indicate a person may not be functioning adequately

Question 5

Rosenhan and seligman’s 7 features

Answer 5

Personal distress, maladaptive behaviour, irrationality and incomprehensibility, unpredictability and loss of control, observer discomfort, violation of moral standards

Question 6

Personal distress-

Answer 6

Is when the person is depressed and upset

Question 7

Observer discomfort-

Answer 7

Is the persons behaviour can make others feel uncomfortable

Question 8

Psychological examples of failure to function adequately

Answer 8

OCD, depression

Question 9

A03- who judges?

Answer 9

Many people engage in behaviour that is maladaptive or harmful or threatening to self but aren’t classed as abnormal for example smoking and drinking

Question 10

A03- some people may be classed as functioning adequately but do not have a psychological disorder

Answer 10

For example someone in family dying and you going to work or school the next day isn’t normal

Question 11

A03- some people do have a psychological disorder but are able to function adequately

Answer 11

Often show no sign of abnormality and hold a job or relationship down for example Dr Harold Shipman, killed a lot of people by giving them strong doses of medication and no one realised