ABPSYCH CHAPTER 1- Historical Concepts of Abnormal Behavior Flashcards
A psychological dysfunction associated with distress or impairment in functioning and a response that is not typical or culturally expected.
Psychological Disorder or Abnormal Behavior
A psychological disorder characterized by marked and persistent fear of an object or situation.
Phobia
A breakdown in cognitive, emotional, or behavioral functioning.
Psychological Dysfunction
TRUE OR FALSE. Problems such as Psychological Dysfunction, Personal Distress, And Deviance is more of an either-or dimension rather than as continuum.
False
Criterion is satisfied if the individual is extremely upset.
Personal Distress
This concept of useful if defining psychological distress alone doesn’t work
Impairment
Extreme expressions of otherwise normal emotions, behaviors, and cognitive processes.
Psychological Disorders
TRUE OR FALSE. Atypical or not culturally expected is sufficient to determine abnormality by itself.
False
TRUE OR FALSE. The greater the deviation, the more abnormal it is.
True
TRUE OR FALSE. In deviation, behavior is abnormal if you are violating social norms.
True
Uses the shorthand definition of Harmful Dysfunction.
Jerome Wakefield
Whether the behavior is out of the individual’s control
Harmful Dysfunction
TRUE OR FALSE. The best we may be able to do is consider how the apparent disease or disorder matches a “typical” profile of a disorder.
True
It is the diagnostic criteria where the patient may have only some symptoms of the disorder and still meet criteria for the disorder because those symptoms are close to it.
Prototype
Scientific study of psychological disorders
Psychopathology
