Exam 1: What Is Abnormal Psychology

Until the mid-1970s homosexuality was classified as a mental disorder,but today the Canadian Psychiatric Association no longer classifies it as such.

Abigail is suffering from a combination of chronic anxiety and depression.Which criterion of abnormal behaviour most closely matches her symptoms?

A little boy is allowed to play with a laboratory rat and shows no fear of it.Then,a scientist makes a scary noise by banging an iron bar whenever the little boy reaches for the rat.Soon,the boy begins crying whenever the rat comes near him.In this study,the boy's fear of the noise is the ________.

A leader in the field of cognitive theory is ________.

Neural messages electrically jump across the synaptic cleft like a spark.

A person who is chronically sad and depressed is said to be ________.

Chlorpromazine has helped people with schizophrenia to be discharged to halfway houses and group homes.

Who is affected by abnormal behaviour?

The stronger the diathesis,the less stress is needed to produce a mental health disorder.

Each of the following is a contribution of sociocultural theory EXCEPT ________.

The philosophy of treatment that emerged from the efforts of Frenchmen such as Philippe Pinel is called ________ therapy.

Freud believed that slips of the tongue weren't accidental.

The biopsychosocial model includes __________ domains,or systems.

A form of therapy that focuses on modifying self-defeating beliefs in addition to overt behaviour is known as __________.

Fred sees people and events in his life as either all good or all bad.This represents a cognitive error known as __________.

Between the 1950s and the 1980s,the psychiatric hospital population across Canada ________.

The person who developed the first major psychological theory of abnormal behaviour was ________.

Undifferentiated cells that are capable of indefinite self-replication and differentiation into specialized cells are called ________cells.

Ellis believed that happiness lies in discovering and liberating deep-seated conflicts.

Renaissance physician Johann Weyer was noted for arguing that abnormal behaviour and thought patterns are caused by ________.