ESSENTIALS OF ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
STUDY SHEET 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS EXPERT VERIFIED
◉inverse agonist. Answer: chemical substance that produces effects
opposite those of a particular neurotransmitter.
◉reuptake. Answer: • action by which a NT is quickly drawn back
into the discharging neuron after being released into a synaptic cleft
◉epigenetics. Answer: The study of factors other than inherited
DNA sequence, such as new learning or stress, that alter the
Phenotypic expression of genes.
◉learned helplessness. Answer: • theory that people become
anxious and depressed when they make an attribution that they
have no control over the stress in their lives (whether or not they
actually have control)
◉modeling (also observational learning). Answer: • learning
through observation and imitation of the behavior of other
individuals and consequences of that behavior
, ◉prepared learning. Answer: • ability adaptive for evolution,
allowing certain associations to be learned more readily that others
◉implicit memory. Answer: • condition of memory in which a
person cannot recall past events despite acting in response to them
◉flight or fight response. Answer: • biological reaction to alarming
stressors that musters the body's resources to resist or flee a threat
◉emotion. Answer: pattern of action elicited by an external event
and a feeling state, accompanied by a characteristic physiological
response
◉mood. Answer: enduring period of emotionality
◉affect. Answer: conscious, subjective aspect of an emotion that
accompanies an action at a given time
◉equifinality. Answer: Developmental psychopathology principle
that a behavior or disorder may have several causes.
STUDY SHEET 2026 EXAM QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS EXPERT VERIFIED
◉inverse agonist. Answer: chemical substance that produces effects
opposite those of a particular neurotransmitter.
◉reuptake. Answer: • action by which a NT is quickly drawn back
into the discharging neuron after being released into a synaptic cleft
◉epigenetics. Answer: The study of factors other than inherited
DNA sequence, such as new learning or stress, that alter the
Phenotypic expression of genes.
◉learned helplessness. Answer: • theory that people become
anxious and depressed when they make an attribution that they
have no control over the stress in their lives (whether or not they
actually have control)
◉modeling (also observational learning). Answer: • learning
through observation and imitation of the behavior of other
individuals and consequences of that behavior
, ◉prepared learning. Answer: • ability adaptive for evolution,
allowing certain associations to be learned more readily that others
◉implicit memory. Answer: • condition of memory in which a
person cannot recall past events despite acting in response to them
◉flight or fight response. Answer: • biological reaction to alarming
stressors that musters the body's resources to resist or flee a threat
◉emotion. Answer: pattern of action elicited by an external event
and a feeling state, accompanied by a characteristic physiological
response
◉mood. Answer: enduring period of emotionality
◉affect. Answer: conscious, subjective aspect of an emotion that
accompanies an action at a given time
◉equifinality. Answer: Developmental psychopathology principle
that a behavior or disorder may have several causes.
