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Models of Abnormality
Who are you calling Abnormal?
and The 4-D's
Assessments of Abnormality
Diagnosis Drama
Treatment
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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 American Psychological Association, the most effective intervention for many mental illnesses involves a combination of these two treatments.

What is medication + talk therapy?

200

This model suggests that mental illness is caused by unconscious psychological forces and drives.

What is the psychodynamic 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

This type of test attempts to *indirectly* assess mental functioning by having the patient complete certain tasks.

What is a neuropsychological test?

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, *this* is the primary treatment approach for psychopathology.

What is medication?

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 type of medication is often prescribed for people with bipolar disorder or severe depression.

What are mood stabilizers?

400

This model focuses on a person's irrational thinking patterns and dysfunctional beliefs.

What is the cognitive model?

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 suggests that behavior is best understood in light of social forces and cultural norms that influence a person.

What is the sociocultural model?

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