Paper 2
Trevor Pleasant
The midterm taken in Abnormal Psychology was a disaster for the whole class. It was due to a lack of insufficient studying and note taking on my part in particular. My goal is to review some of the questions I missed and try to make sense of why the answers I put where wrong.
One of the questions I definitely should have answered correct was number 13. The question asks if "Brett's behavior is consistent with the definition of mental disorder." He is injecting himself with pain killers, and can overdose and die. I originally answered no that his action weren't out of control. That was without thinking, because clearly doing something that will kill you isn't normal. In the book it says "a range of abnormal behavior patterns." This happens to be a pattern of abnormal behavior, because he continues to harm himself. So my answer should have been yes, because he is persistent.
Another question that was relatively simple was number twenty, and......
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