PSY 341 Abnormal Psychology Exam 1 Questions and Answers
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What are the 5 standards of Abnormality? - Answer-Cultural relativism, statistical unusualness, personal distress, mental illness, maladapttiveness
Explain abnormality in terms of cultural relativism? - Answer-behavior is considered to be abnormal within the individual's culture
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What are the 5 standards of Abnormality? - Answer-Cultural relativism, statistical
unusualness, personal distress, mental illness, maladapttiveness
Explain abnormality in terms of cultural relativism? - Answer-behavior is considered to
be abnormal within the individual's culture
Explain abnormality in terms of statistical unusualness - Answer-behavior is statistically
uncommon and rare
Explain abnormality in terms of personal disstress - Answer-behavior causes suffering
and person wishes rid of it
Explain abnormality in terms of mental illness - Answer-behavior is considered to be a
mental illness by the specific criteria of the DSM5
Explain abnormality in terms of maladaptiveness - Answer-behavior prevents person
from performing natural functions such as reproduction
What are the biological theories of abnormality - Answer-structural, biochemical, and
genetic
explain the structural theory of abnormality - Answer-disorder as a result of structural
damage to the brain
explain the biochemical theory of abnormality - Answer-problems or imbalances with
neurotransmitters or the endocrine system
explain the genetic theory of abnormality - Answer-malformation of a specific gene or
genes
neurotransmission - Answer-the brains means of communicating
synapse - Answer-the gap between two neurons that is the point of communication
what are the four common neurotransmitters? - Answer-serotonin, norepinephrine,
dopamine, and gamma-aminobutryic acid
pituitary gland - Answer-The master gland. Lies below the hypothalamus. Connects
between the nervous system and endocrine system
genetic factors in abnormality - Answer-family studies, twin studies, and adoption
studies
psychological theories of abnormality - Answer-psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive,
humanistic/ existential
psychodynamic theory - Answer-unconscious conflicts between primitive desires and
constraints on those desires
behavioral theory - Answer-symptoms of mental disorders due to reinforcements and
punishments for specific behaviors
cognitive theory - Answer-People's way of interpreting situations, their view of the world,
and self-concepts
humanistic/ existentialist theory - Answer-disorders arise when conforming to others
demands instead of pursuing own values and potentials
Id - Answer-pleasure principle, primary process
Ego - Answer-reality principle, secondary process
Superego - Answer-Moral principle, introject social standards
Freud's psychosexual stages of development? - Answer-Oral - 0 to 18 months.
Anal - 18 months to 3 years
Phallic - 3 years to 6 years
Latency - 6 years to puberty
Genital - puberty to adulthood
defense mechanisms that the Ego uses to bury the Id? - Answer-Repression,
regression, projection, intellectualization, denial, and sublimation
repression - Answer-burying impulses of Id
regression - Answer-behaving as if in an earlier stage of development
projection - Answer-attributing owns desires to others
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