Abnormal Psych (PSYC 382.01) Exam #1
Fall 2023
What are the 4 "D's" of defining abnormal psychology? Answer Deviance
Distress
Dysfunction
Danger
What does it mean to conduct a double-blind experiment? Answer Neither subjects
nor experimenters know what is being done to the subjects.
In ancient times, people would conduct an operation in which a hole was cut into the
skull as treatment for abnormal behavior. What is this operation called? Answer
Trephination
_________ is the number of new cases of a disorder occurring in a population over a
specific period of time. Answer Incidence
__________ is the total number of cases of a disorder occurring in a population over a
specific period of time. Answer Prevalence
Which of the following is most likely to be deviant?
- Being nervous when called on in class.
- Feeling sad after a family member dies.
- Being sad after breaking up with a boyfriend/girlfriend.
- Feeling uncomfortably anxious when your textbooks are out of order. Answer
Feeling uncomfortably anxious when your textbooks are out of order.
Which of the following affects a clinician's assessment of the dangerousness of an
action?
- Inherent risk
- Patient's awareness of risk
- Efforts made to control risk Answer All of the above (Inherent risk, Patient's
awareness of risk, and Efforts made to control risk.)
Society relying too much on the role of mental illness in criminal behavior can lead to
what? Answer Excusing illegal or abnormal behaviors because they are "illnesses"
out of a person's control.
What is not a primary type of research?
- Case study
- Experiments
- Interviews
Fall 2023
What are the 4 "D's" of defining abnormal psychology? Answer Deviance
Distress
Dysfunction
Danger
What does it mean to conduct a double-blind experiment? Answer Neither subjects
nor experimenters know what is being done to the subjects.
In ancient times, people would conduct an operation in which a hole was cut into the
skull as treatment for abnormal behavior. What is this operation called? Answer
Trephination
_________ is the number of new cases of a disorder occurring in a population over a
specific period of time. Answer Incidence
__________ is the total number of cases of a disorder occurring in a population over a
specific period of time. Answer Prevalence
Which of the following is most likely to be deviant?
- Being nervous when called on in class.
- Feeling sad after a family member dies.
- Being sad after breaking up with a boyfriend/girlfriend.
- Feeling uncomfortably anxious when your textbooks are out of order. Answer
Feeling uncomfortably anxious when your textbooks are out of order.
Which of the following affects a clinician's assessment of the dangerousness of an
action?
- Inherent risk
- Patient's awareness of risk
- Efforts made to control risk Answer All of the above (Inherent risk, Patient's
awareness of risk, and Efforts made to control risk.)
Society relying too much on the role of mental illness in criminal behavior can lead to
what? Answer Excusing illegal or abnormal behaviors because they are "illnesses"
out of a person's control.
What is not a primary type of research?
- Case study
- Experiments
- Interviews
