Abnormal Psych Chap 1 Quiz

What is the disease model and what problems existed with it?

Answer explanation

This was a method used in the 1800's and up until the 20th century.

It focused on curing mental illnesses as if they were a disease.

Define Normal Behavior:

Answer explanation

Normal behvior is not easy to define as its moreso up to the beholder

to decide. However normal behavior is considered as a human being that is

able to be adaptive, functional, and socially accpetable.

Define Abnormal Behavior:

Answer explanation

Can be a person that is considered to have a combination of personal distress, psychological

dysfuntion, deviance from social norms, and a danger to self or others.

What is Abnormal Psychology?

Answer explanation

Is subcatagory of psychology that focuses of the unusual patterns of behavior

emotions, or thought portrayed in a human being

What is Psychopathology?

Answer explanation

The study of mental disorders and unusual, and harmful behaviors.

How do we define mental disorders?

Answer explanation

a medically significant disturbance in a beings brain

What is the importance of classification for the study of mental disorders?

Answer explanation

Classifications allows doctors and researchers to easily access descriptions of the disororders, possible outcomes, and possible treatment plans

What is the etiology of mental illness?

Answer explanation

The cause

How has mental illness been viewed overtime?

Answer explanation

In ealier times people have had all sorts of views and explanations about psychology

peoople believed psychology had to deal with people being supernatural. it was believed to be Somatogenic and psychogenic.

Contrast the moral treatment and mental hygiene movements:

Answer explanation

The moral treatement movement took place in the 18th-19th century depending on where you were in the world. Its main focus had been on emphasized character and spiritual development. this moovemnet died off when the hygiene movement came into play and focused on the well being of the patients.