TEST BANK FOR ABNORMAL CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY 9TH EDITION ISRAEL WITH 100% VERIFIED SOLUTIONS

TEST BANK FOR ABNORMAL CHILD AND ADOLESCENT PSYCHOLOGY 9TH EDITION ISRAEL WITH 100% VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
Which of the following is an example of family aggregation?
a. Both Jane and her husband are alcoholics.
b. Jim and John, 21-year-old friends, are both schizophrenics.
c. Karen, her mother, and her grandmother all have been diagnosed with
generalized anxiety
disorder.
d. Kim's suicide was apparently a reaction to her mother's abuse. - ANSWER-c.
Karen, her mother, and her grandmother all have been diagnosed with generalized
anxiety
What makes defining abnormality difficult?
a. There are so many types of abnormal behavior that they can't be accurately
described.
b. There is no one behavior that serves to make someone abnormal.
c. Most of us are abnormal much of the time so that we cannot tell what is normal.
d. Criteria for abnormality have yet to be developed. - ANSWER-b. There is no
one behavior that serves to make someone abnormal.
Which of the following is a sufficient element to determine abnormality?
a. Suffering
b. Maladaptiveness
c. Deviancy
d. There is no single sufficient element. - ANSWER-d. There is no single sufficient
element.
The fact that body piercings are commonplace today while they would once have
been viewed as abnormal illustrates that
a. modern society is unlikely to change.
b. what is acceptable for men and women is no longer different.
c. American culture values independence.
d. the values of a society may change over time. - ANSWER-d. the values of a
society may change over time.