Chapters 1 and 2

What term refers to the scientific study of abnormal behavior undertaken to describe, predict, explain, and change abnormal patterns of functioning?

Which of the 4 D’s (Patterns of Pyschological Abnormality) describes different, bizarre, unusual behavior?

Which of the 4 D’s (Patterns of Pyschological Abnormality) describes behavior that is unpleasant and upsetting to the indivdual exhibiting the behavior?

Which of the 4 D’s (Patterns of Pyschological Abnormality) describes behavior that interferes with the individual’s ability to conduct daily activities in a constructive setting?

Which of the 4 D’s (Patterns of Pyschological Abnormality) describes behavior that could pose harm to the individual or to those around them?

What term can be described with 3 influences of societal norms, culture, and context?

What kind of behavior differs in thoughts and emotions from a society’s ideas about proper functioning?

What term refers to a society’s stated and unstated rules for proper conduct?

What term refers to an unusual pattern with which others have no right to interfere?

What term refers to a procedure designed to change abnormal behavior into more normal behavior?

How did ancient societies treat abnormal behavior? (“The work of _____”)

How did Greek and Roman societies treat abnormal behavior as?

What term refers to the fluids Greeks and Romans believed influence mental and physical functioning?

How did Renaissance societies treat abnormal behavior? (Institutions meant to provide care for those stricken with mental disorders; now they’re more like prisons)

Who, in 1793, argued that patients should be treated with sympathy and kindness as opposed to torment?

Considered the “Father of American Psychiatry”, who utilized methods of moral guidance and respectful treatment in hiring ibtelligent attendants to work with patients?

What early 20th century perspective views abnormal functioning as having physical causes? (such as diseases)

What early 20th century perspective views abnormal functioning as having psychological causes?

What theory/treatment, coined by Viennese physician Sigmund Freud, emphasizes unconscious psychological forces as the cause of psychopathology?

What field of psychology examines the impact of culture, race, ethnicity, and gender on behaviors and thoughts as influence of abnormal behavior?

What do these 6 represent? (Psychoanalytic, Biological, Cognitive-Behavioral, Humanistic-Existential, Sociocultural, and Developmental)

How does the Biological Model explain abnormal behavior?

Abnormal Activity in what can lead to specific mental disorders? (Chemicals that cross the synapse to travel from one neuron to the other)

Abnormal activity in what other biological system has been linked to mental disorders? (Abnormal secretion of cortison linked to anxiety and mood disorders)

What are two causes of biological abnormalities?

What kind of biological treatment primarily affects the brain and reduces mental dysfunction?

What kind of biological treatment sets up interventions to stimulate the brain for psychological improvement?

What kind of therapy uses 4 major drug groups, those being Antianxiety Drugs, Antidepressants, Antibipolar Drugs, and Antipsychotics?

What model of abnormality explains behavior as determined by unconscious, underlying forces?

Which of the 3 unconscious forces is known as the pleasure principle?

Which of the 3 unconscious forces is known as the morality principle?

Which of the 3 unconscious forces is known as the reality principle?

What term refers to a condition in which the id, ego, or superego do not mature properly and are frozen at an early stage of development?

What term refers to the unconscious refusal to participate fully in therapy?

What term refers to the redirection toward the psychotherapist of feelings associated with important figures in a patient’s life, past or present?

What term refers to the reliving of past repressed feelings in order to settle internal conflicts and overcome problems?

What are the strengths of the Psychodynamic Model?

What are the weaknesses of the Psychodynamic Model?

How does the Cognitive-Behavioral Model explain abnormal behavior?

What dimension of the Cognitive-Behavioral Model uses conditioning?

What kind of conditioning uses temporal association in which two events repeatedly occur together so that the mind creates an equal response between events?

What kind of conditioning results in the usage of rewards or punishments as a way of learning to behave in certain ways?

What term refers to the observation of behavior as a way of learning?

What dimension of the Cognitive-Behavioral Model focuses on maladaptive thinking processes as a way of understanding abnormal functioning?

What are the strengths of the Cognitive-Behavioral Model of Abnormality?

What are the weaknesses of the Cognitive-Behavioral Model of Abnormality?

Which view of the Humanist-Existential Model of Abnormality emphasizes friendliness, cooperation within individuals, and focuses on self-actualization through recognition of one’s own strengths and weaknesses?

Which view of the Humanist-Existential Model of Abnormality emphasizes accurate self-awareness and authenticity? (Psychological dysfunction caused by self-deception)

What theory has a goal to guide clients toward self-recognition and self-acceptance through challenge and frustration?

What are the strengths of the Humanist-Existential Model of Abnormality?

What are the weaknesses of the Humanist-Existential Model of Abnormality?

What are the two perspectives of the Sociocultural Model of Abnormality?

How does the Family-Social Perspective explain abnormal functioning?

What theory states that family is a system of interacting parts whose interactions exhibit consistent patterns and unstated rules?

What are the 4 kinds of Family-social Treatments?

How does the Multicultural Perspectice explain abnormal behavior?

What term refers to the multicultural framework that examines how each individual’s membership across multiple cultural groups and social identities combine fo shape their experiences, opportunities, outlook, and functioning?

What term refers to the set of values, attitudes, beliefs, history, and behaviors shared by a group of people and communicated across generations?

What sociocultural factors may contribute to abnormal functioning?

How can one improve the effectiveness of therapy for multicultural treatment?

What kind of therapy is designed to help address the issues faced by members of cultural minority groups?

What kind of therapy is designed to address the pressures of being a female or the gender minority in a given society?

What are the strengths of the Sociocultural Model of Abnormality?

What are the weaknesses of the Sociocultural Model of Abnormality?

Which defense mechanism blocks a threatening idea, memory, or emotion from your consciousness?

Which defense mechanism attributed one’s own unacceptable feelings and impulses onto someone else?

Which defense mechanism directs one’s emotions, especially anger, toward things, animals, or other people that are not the real object of one’s feelings?

Which defense mechanism serves a higher cultural or socially useful purpose of displacement, as in creation of art or invention?

Which defense mechanism transforms anxiety-producing thoughts or feelings into their opposites in consciousness?

Which defense mechanism forces oneself to return to more primitive levels of behavior in defense against anxiety of frustration?

Which defense mechanism forces oneself to refuse to admit that something unpleasant is happening? (different from Repression; Repression distorts memory, this distorts perception)