Models of Abnormality
Who are you calling Abnormal?
and The 4-D's
Assessments of Abnormality
Diagnosis Drama
Treatment
100
This model suggests that we learn to act a certain way because we were classically-conditioned or operant- conditioned to act that way.
What is the behavioral model?
100
This "D" is what happens when a person's behavior is likely to harm themselves, or others.
What is Danger?
100
This is probably the most commonly-used assessment, which involves a face-to-face meeting between therapist and client.
What is a Clinical Interview?
100
This is a word we should NEVER use to describe a person with a mental illness.
What is "crazy" (or "insane")?
100
According to the biological model of abnormality, what is the most common Treatment for mental illness?
What is medication?
200
Which model suggests that behavior is best understood in light of social forces and cultural norms that influence a person?
What is the sociocultural model?
200
`If a person has abnormal behavior, but the behavior does not seem to bother them, then we would say it does NOT cause *this D.*
What is Distress?
200
When a test has *this," we know that it accurately measures whatever the test is intended/designed to measure.
What is validity?
200

True or False -- We can make a fairly accurate diagnosis of a celebrity just by reading about their behavior and/or watching Youtube videos about them.

What is FALSE?

200
According to the behavioral model, you might use *this* training technique to change behavior through rewards/punishments.
What is Operant conditioning?
300
According to the biological model of abnormality, what are the TWO likely causes of mental illness?
What are problems with brain anatomy and brain chemistry?
300
This "D" means that a person is behaving in a way that violates the accepted rules and norms of a society.
What is Deviance?
300
These tests require the client to interpret vague images (like inkblots) or tell a story based on an ambiguous picture.
What are Projective Tests?
300
The overall purpose of making a diagnosis is to help identify a __________ plan.
What is "treatment" plan?
300

This model of abnormality is likely to recommend treatments like couples therapy, group therapy, or family therapy.

What is the sociocultural model?
400

According to Freud's psychodynamic model, these are the 3 conflicting parts of the psyche that can cause mental illness.

What are the "Id, Ego, and Superego?"

400
This "D" is what happens when symptoms interfere with a person's ability to work, study, socialize, or engage in normal, everyday activities.
What is Dysfunction?
400
This is a very common intelligence test, that (among other things) asks questions about general knowledge and has you make shapes out of colored blocks.
What is the WAIS?
400

This book lists all of the mental disorders diagnosed by the APA (be specific on the version).

What is the DSM-5-TR?

400
This treatment involves helping the person to examine, challenge, and change irrational and negative thinking patterns.
What is cognitive therapy?
500
This model of abnormality requires persons to make meaning from their own lives and take personal responsibility for their decisions.
What is Humanistic-Existential?
500
Abnormal psychology is "the scientific study of abnormal behavior in an effort to describe, predict, explain, and _______ abnormal patterns of functioning”
What is "change?"
500

This kind of observation is what you use if it was impossible to observe a person in their natural setting - so you created an artificial setting!

What is a laboratory/analog observation?

500
When making a judgment about the severity of a diagnosis, clinicians will probably choose one of *these* three levels.
What are "mild, moderate, and severe"?
500

Large-scale studies of therapy effectiveness have tended to reach *this* conclusion about therapy.

Therapy works - people who need therapy and receive it generally do better than people who need it but don't get it

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