Abnormal Behavior Quiz

The first cost was the shift towards victimology and pathologizing, forgetting about human responsibility. The second cost was the neglect of improving normal lives and focusing on making untroubled people happier. The third cost was the lack of interventions to promote happiness and positive well-being.

The 'third force' psychology, also known as humanistic psychology, was a movement to overcome the limitations of psychoanalysis and behaviorism. Proponents included figures such as Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers.

Humanistic psychology focused on personal fulfillment, valued feelings over intellect, emphasized hedonism and belief in human perfectibility, emphasized the present, self-disclosure, self-actualization, positive regard, client centered therapy, and the hierarchy of needs.

<p>Martin Seligman became the president of the American Psychological Association and called for a positive psychology, ushering in the scientific study of happiness, love, hope, optimism, life satisfaction, goal setting, leisure, and subjective well-being.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>While humanistic psychology generally relied on qualitative methods, positive psychology utilizes a quantitative approach and aims to help people make the most out of life’s setbacks, relate well to others, find fulfillment in creativity, and find lasting meaning and satisfaction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The text suggests that normal behavior can be understood by looking to positive psychology for an indication as well as by defining abnormal behavior and then reverse engineering a definition of what normal is.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Abnormal behavior is considered to be a combination of personal distress, psychological dysfunction, deviance from social norms, dangerousness to self and others, and costliness to society.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>This statement emphasizes that extreme behavior, regardless of its nature, can become disordered, whether it involves controlling others through social influence or helping people in an altruistic fashion.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Psychologists found it easier to explain what is wrong with people than what is right.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Freud, Adler, Klein, Jung, and Erickson are synonymous with the psychoanalytical school of thought.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The focus was on curing mental disorders.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>B.F. Skinner, under behaviorism, presented a new view of human behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The dominant worldview of the time was mechanism, which presented the world as a great machine explained through the principles of physics and chemistry.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It allowed us to examine the roles of both nature and nurture and to develop drug and psychological treatments.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Martin Seligman pointed out three consequences of the scientific investigation of mental illness in his 2008 TED Talk.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Freud, Adler, Klein, Jung, and Erickson.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>B.F. Skinner.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>By understanding abnormal behavior first and then contrasting it with normal behavior.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He introduced the concept of positive psychology and pointed out the consequences of focusing solely on curing mental disorders.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Curing mental disorders.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The roles of both nature and nurture.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The 'third force' psychology refers to humanistic psychology and its proponents included Maslow, Rogers, and others.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Self-actualization, personal growth, and the inherent goodness of people.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>What is wrong with people rather than what is right.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He pointed out the three consequences of the disease model of psychology and the importance of focusing on positive psychology.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The understanding of normal behavior, cultural norms, statistical rarity, and personal discomfort.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It highlights the continuum between normal and abnormal behavior and the potential for any behavior to become disordered when taken to the extreme.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The first cost was moral, the second cost was forgetting about improving normal lives, and the third problem was the lack of interventions to make people happier.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Figures such as Abraham Maslow and Carl Rogers.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>He called for a positive psychology or one that had a more positive conception of human potential and nature.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Topics such as happiness, love, hope, optimism, life satisfaction, goal setting, leisure, and subjective well-being.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Humanistic psychology focused on personal fulfillment, valuing feelings over intellect, hedonism, a belief in human perfectibility, emphasis on the present, self-disclosure, self-actualization, positive regard, client centered therapy, and the hierarchy of needs.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>While humanistic psychology generally relied on qualitative methods, positive psychology utilizes a quantitative approach.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The text suggests that normal behavior can be understood by looking to positive psychology for an indication, or by first defining abnormal behavior and then reverse engineering a definition of what normal is.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The darker elements of our personality could also make up what is normal to some extent.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>The scientific study of psychology had been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side, revealing much about man’s shortcomings, illnesses, sins, but little about his potentialities, virtues, achievable aspirations, or full psychological height.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Martin Seligman.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They sought to address the limitations of psychoanalysis and behaviorism.</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>They focused on humanistic psychology, which addressed the full range of human functioning and focused on personal fulfillment.</p> Signup and view all the answers