All of the following are ways psychologists judge abnormal behavior EXCEPT:

Related Mcqs:

1. According to Thomas, abnormal behavior usually involves:

   A. behavior that is statistically unusual.
   B. behavior that deviates from social norms.
   C. a disease of the mind.
   D. biological imbalance

2. Which of this definitions applies to ALL types of abnormal behavior?

   A. Abnormal behavior occurs in frequently.
   B. Abnormal behavior is odd or strange.
   C. Abnormal behavior is characterized by suffering.
   D. Abnormal behavior causes impairment in the person’s life.

3. In treating an abnormal behavior, the main concern of a psychoanalyst would be to discover the ____________?

   A. childhood unconscious conflict that led to the behavior
   B. repressed memories from childhood that instigate aggressive behavior
   C. inappropriate thought patterns that underlie the behavior
   D. ways in which the behavior keeps the client from becoming self-actualized

4. The concept that abnormal behavior is the result of a disease goes with the ___________?

   A. behavioral model
   B. humanistic model
   C. medical model
   D. psychological model

5. All of the following are behavior therapies EXCEPT

   A. Exposure therapies
   B. Systematic desensitization
   C. Dream analysis
   D. Aversion therapy

6. An abnormal shrinkage of cerebral tissue is most likely to be associated with: __________?

   A. schizophrenia.
   B. obsessive-compulsive disorder.
   C. dissociative disorders.
   D. dysthymic disorder.

7. Which of the following psychologists is MOST deal with the most severe mental health problems?

   A. clinical psychologist
   B. research psychologist
   C. school psychologist
   D. counselling psychologist

8. A delude Scotsman, Daniel M’Naughten, tried to assassinate a government official in 1843.He was sent to a mental hospital rather than to a prison because he was judge to: ___________?

   A. be mainic
   B. be insane.
   C. be depressed
   D. neurotic

9. Which children are told that certain classmates are learning disabled, they may behave in ways that inhibit the success of these students in the classroom.This best illustrates the dangers of: __________?

   A. the medical model.
   B. linkage analysis.
   C. the psychoanalytic perspective.
   D. self-fulfilling prophecies

10. All of the following are goals of the major therapies EXCEPT:

    A. Effecting a leasting cure
    B. Reaching a diagnosis
    C. Making a prognosis
    D. Proposing an etiology