A characteristic of abnormal behavior that is uncommon in the general population.
What is statistical deviation?
100
A current television show with a main character, played by Tony Shalhoub, who suffers from extreme Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Monk
100
A disorder that is characterized by an excessive or irrational fear of some object or situation.
What is phobia?
100
The explanation for abnormal behavior that includes demonic possession and magic.
What are early mystical beliefs?
100
Therapies that include medication, electroconvusive shock or psychosurgery.
What is biomedical therapy?
200
Abnormality that is a result of some physical disease.
What is medical disease?
200
The 16th president of the United States who described himself as having “A tendency to melancholy”.
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
200
The current clinical diagnostic name for multiple personalities.
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
200
The psychological model that proposes abnormal behavior is a result of unconscious conflicts from childhood.
What is the psychodynamic model?
200
The type of therapy that assumes troubling emotions and behavior result from ineffective or inaccurate thinking.
What is behavioral therapy?
300
The characteristic of abnormal behavior that breaks society's rules.
What is social norm violation?
300
A famous actress publically chastized by Tom Cruise when she admitted to suffering from post partum depression that was helped by medication.
Who is Brooke Shields?
300
The disorder that is characterized by a lack of regard for society's rules, impulsivity, egocentrism and untruthfulness.
What is antisocial personality disorder?
300
The psychological model which states abnormal behavior is a result of learned behaviors.
What is the behavioral model?
300
Therapy that is based on work of Sigmund Freud and asserts that psychological disorders stem primarily from unconscious forces.
What is psychodynamic therapy?
400
Abnormal behavior that causes the individual to feel distress over their actions.
What is personal distress?
400
The Nobel Prize winner who suffered from schizophrenia that the movie "A Beautiful Mind" was based on.
Who is John Nash?
400
Deliberately faking symptoms for an ulterior motive.
What is malingering?
400
The psychological model that proposes that abnormal behavior is the result of faulty or distorted thinking.
What is the cognitive model?
400
A type of therapy based on unconditional positive regard, and is non-directive.
What is client-cenetered therapy?
500
Behavior that interferes with ataining personal goals or interferes with social group functioning.
What is maladaptive behavior?
500
A former Prime Minister of Great Britian and one of the "Big Three" leaders who orchestrated the defeat of Hitler during WWII and who suffered from severe depression that he called the "black dog"
Who is Winston Churchill?
500
A psychological disorder that involves delusions of grandeur, persecution, and auditory hallucinations.
What is paranoid schizophrenia?
500
The psychological model that proposes abnormal behavior is a result of a complex interaction between biological, psychological and social influences.
What is the biopsychosocial model?
500
A type of therapy in which clients are confronted with irrational beliefs and persuaded to develop a more realistic way of thinking.