Exam 1: What Is Abnormal Psychology

Identify and discuss six criteria that are used to define abnormal behaviour.

The Jack Project provides support for __________.

Tina has an eating disorder.If her therapist used the sociocultural approach,she or he would likely consider the cause of her disorder to be due to __________.

Andrew has recurring delusions that he is the King of England.He also hallucinates that the Queen is next to him,and he talks to her throughout the day.Which criterion of abnormal behaviour most closely matches his behaviour?

Current Canadian Aboriginal wellness and promotion targets the __________.

The ________ model considers abnormal behaviour patterns to be symptoms of underlying mental illnesses or disorders.

Who is the Canadian psychiatrist who was the first person in North America to publicly report on the antipsychotic effects of chlorpromazine?

Freud likened the mind to an immense iceberg,with only the tip rising into conscious awareness.

Epigenetics is the study the heritable and acquired changes in gene regulation that occur as the sequence of DNA is modified.

Philippe visits a therapist for treatment of his depression.The therapist tells him his problems arise from a series of irrational beliefs about himself and about life that he has developed over the years.She says that to overcome the depression,Philippe must replace his irrational beliefs with rational self-talk.Philippe's therapist is most similar to ________ in the way she conceptualizes his problem.

Every neuron has a cell body,or _________.

For Ellis,the key factor in abnormal behaviour is a person's ________.

Emil Kraepelin identified the group of diseases he called "manic-depressive psychosis," which we now call ________.

Epigenetics includes the interplay between genes and the environment.

Kristin is quick-tempered,or choleric.According to Hippocrates's theory,Kristin has an excess of ________.

By the mid-1970s,the population in Canadian psychiatric hospitals was about ________.

The focus on conscious experience can be viewed as both a strength and a weakness of the humanistic-existential approach.

Hippocrates diagnoses one of his patients as suffering from mania.The patient is probably ________.

Critically evaluate psychodynamic theories.

Theorists who focus on abnormal thought patterns,attitudes,and expectations associated with abnormal behaviour are ________ theorists.