Disorders Fact or False Abnormal Psychology

Any person who acts in a bizarre manner is considered psychologically abnormal.

• True

• False

People in the past have been tortured or executed for having a mental disorder.

• True

• False

People with a predisposition to having a mental illness will definitely develop

that illness at some point in their lifetime.

• True

• False

The number of mental illnesses that can be diagnosed, according to established

psychiatric criteria, numbers more than 400.

• True

• False

In the past, healthy people have been able to pretend to be mentally ill, fooling staff at

mental hospitals.

• True

• False

No known culture is free of depression or schizophrenia.

• True

• False

People who are wealthy are twice as likely to be diagnosed with a serious

mental disorder than those who are poor.

• True

• False

When is behavior considered disordered?

• When it is aggressive, persistent, and intentional.

• When it is biologically influenced, unconsciously motivated, and difficult to change.

• When it is maladaptive, distressful, and dysfunctional.

What is the concept that diseases, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases cured often through treatment in a hospital?

• The Medical Model

• The Biopsychosocial Approach

• The Socio-cultural Approach

• The Learning Approach