Chapter 1 - psych 2490 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS
clinical scientist - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔gather to describe,
predict and explain the phenomena they study
clinical practitioners - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔(after clinical
scientists) detect, assess and treat abnormal patterns of functioning
deviant - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔different, extreme, unusual,
bizarre - differ thoughts and emotions from society's ideas
abnormal - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔break norms
value competition - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔accept aggressive
behaviour
judgements of abnormality - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔depend on
circumstances as well as on cultural norms. it is acceptable for an
individual who lost everything in a natural disaster to be distress
, distress - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔unpleasant, and upsetting to the
person. behaviour, ideas or emotions usually have to cause distress
before they can be labeled abnormal. context is key
ex: natural disaster victim
dysfunction - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔interferes with daily
functioning, withdraw from productive life
danger - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔dysfunctioning behaviour to
oneself and others
Szasz - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔abnormality = problems in living,
did not believe in the concept of mental illness
ex: alcoholism in college students
eccentricity - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔unusual pattern with which
others have no right to interfere. deviates from common behaviour
ex: weird people
ANSWERS
clinical scientist - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔gather to describe,
predict and explain the phenomena they study
clinical practitioners - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔(after clinical
scientists) detect, assess and treat abnormal patterns of functioning
deviant - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔different, extreme, unusual,
bizarre - differ thoughts and emotions from society's ideas
abnormal - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔break norms
value competition - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔accept aggressive
behaviour
judgements of abnormality - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔depend on
circumstances as well as on cultural norms. it is acceptable for an
individual who lost everything in a natural disaster to be distress
, distress - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔unpleasant, and upsetting to the
person. behaviour, ideas or emotions usually have to cause distress
before they can be labeled abnormal. context is key
ex: natural disaster victim
dysfunction - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔interferes with daily
functioning, withdraw from productive life
danger - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔dysfunctioning behaviour to
oneself and others
Szasz - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔abnormality = problems in living,
did not believe in the concept of mental illness
ex: alcoholism in college students
eccentricity - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔unusual pattern with which
others have no right to interfere. deviates from common behaviour
ex: weird people
