PSY 102 Study Guide - Final Guide: Structural Family Therapy, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Psy102: practice test #3: suppose you are a psychologist who is evaluating the behaviour of a new client. The client tells you that he does not like to wear clothing and that he walks around nude most of the time. In addition, he tells you that he lives in a society in which clothing is required and nudity is seen as abnormal. Which of the following is not a criterion by which you evaluate your client"s behaviour as abnormal: societal disapproval, impairment, subjective distress, statistical rarity. Answer: c: any behaviour that does not allow a person to function within or adapt to the stresses and everyday demands of life is considered, qualitatively rare, socially disapproved of, impairing and maladaptive, statistically rare. Answer: c: the perspective that mental disorders don"t all have one thing in common, but rather share a loose set of features is called the ___________________, failure analysis approach, family resemblance view, medical model, multimodal approach.