Abnormal Psychology

Test 1 Study Guide

Chapter 1

1. What is Abnormal psychology?
2. What are the 4 D’s used to define abnormal psychology?
3. Why is it difficult to agree on a definition of abnormal behavior?
4. How did Hippocrates explain abnormal behavior?
5. How has demonology been used to explain abnormal behavior and what were some of the treatment methods used to treat demon possession?
6. What is significant about the Shrines at Gheel?
7. What was the emphasis of the Moral Treatment movement?
8. What is the somatogenic perspective?
9. What is the psychogenic perspective?
10. Who pioneered the psychogenic perspective?
11. __________ care is now the primary mode of treatment.
12. How have of Insurance Companies influenced the treatment process?
13. How is a case study used in studying abnormal behavior?
14. How is a correlational study used in studying abnormal behavior?
15. What’s the difference between a positive and negative correlation?
16. What is an Epidemiological study?
17. What does the term Incidence refer to?
18. What does the term Prevalence refer to?
19. What is the benefit of using the experimental method in studying abnormal behavior?
20. Why do we use a control group and random assignment in the experimental method?
21. Why do you often find Quasi-experimental designs, Natural experiments, Analogue experiments, and Single-subject experiments in abnormal psychology?

Chapter 2

22. What is a model or paradigm?
23. What is the main focus of the biological model?
24. In the biological model, how does brain anatomy explain disorders?
25. In the biological model, how does brain chemistry explain disorders?
26. What is a neurotransmitter and why is it significant?
27. What are the three types of biological treatments?
28. What are our four groups of drugs?
29. Who is the father of psychodynamic theory and psychoanalytic therapy?
30. How does the psychodynamic theory explain abnormal behavior?
31. What is the role of the Id, Ego, and Superego?
32. What’s the purpose of the ego defense system?
33. What is the function of repression, rationalization, displacement, sublimation, projection, reaction formation, and regression?
34. What is a fixation according to Freud and why is it significant?
35. What techniques are used in Psychodynamic Therapies?
36. How does the behavioral theory explain abnormal behavior?
37. Be able to give an example of positive reinforcement, negative reinforcement, and punishment.
38. In classical conditioning, how do we define the unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, conditioned stimulus, and conditioned response? Be able to identify these 4 in Pavlov’s experiment with dog salivation, meat, and the tone of a bell.
39. What are the components of systematic desensitization?
40. How does the cognitive theory explain abnormal behavior?
41. What are 2 examples of illogical thinking processes?
42. Be familiar with the RET model including the ABCDE’s and catastrophic thinking.
43. How does the humanistic theory explain abnormal behavior?
44. What is the significance of unconditional positive regard?
45. What might result from being raised in an environment with conditional positive regard?
46. How does the existential theory explain abnormal behavior?
47. How does the Sociocultural Model explain abnormal behavior?

Chapter 3

48. What is reliability and validity?
49. What is a Projective test?
50. What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory?
51. What is a Neurological and neuropsychological test?
52. What is the purpose of the DSM?
53. What are the 5 axes of the DSM?