Defining abnormality successfully involves identifying
a. thoughts, movements, and intentions.
b. deviance, dysfunction, and personal distress.
c. time, date, and place.
d. measures developed by each practitioner.
Question 2Which of the following limitations does the text cite regarding the interpretation of statistical deviance from the norm?
a. Labels solve everything
b. Culture conflict is quite minimal
c. Identification is always cut and dry
d. There are arbitrary cutoffs
Question 3One problem that mental health professionals encounter when using personal distress as a measure of maladaptive behavior is
a. establishing a cut-off point that indicates abnormality.
b. establishing therapeutic guidelines.
c. combining culture and emotional response.
d. all of these may present as problems that must be negotiated.
Question 4Margarette has an irrational fear of entering tunnels. As a result, she experiences a high level of personal distress. Jason is highly disruptive in school and does not experience personal distress, but his behavior is still considered abnormal because
a. it produces a high level of distress for others around him.
b. his parents experience the same behaviors outside of school.
c. his actions occur in public.
d. none of these would be reasons for identifying his behavior as abnormal.
Question 5Maladaptive behavior may result in
a. changing one's environment to better accommodate the behavior.
b. seeking professional assistance.
c. not seeking treatment.
d. any of these may be responses to maladaptive behavior.
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