Practice questions with PCHP - Personality Clinical and Health psychology - 5th edition
What does abnormality mean? - Exam 1
1. Name the four D's of abnormality and explain what they mean.
2. What kind of theory of abnormality could the old Chinese theory of the life-air breath be labeled?
A biological theory
A supernatural theory
A psychosocial theory
3. Which term is described here? Behavior that is followed by positive consequences will be repeated more often than behavior that is followed by negative consequences.
Classical conditioning
Operant conditioning
Learning through observation
Learning through punishment and rewarding
4. What does 'cultural relativism' mean?
That there are no universal standards or rules to classify behavior as abnormal, behavior can only be abnormal according to prevailing standards.
That in different cultures very different disorders
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