Main Tenet (Idea/Proposition)

Answer

Contemporary Perspective of Abnormal Psychology

1. Unconscious conflicts manifest in symptoms of mental illness.

A. Biological Perspective

2. Psychotropic medications seek to treat mental illness by acting on neurotransmitters that may be malfunctioning.

B. Psychological Perspective – Psychodynamic Models

3. Manipulation of information may cause cognitive distortions. These errors in thinking produce maladaptive behaviors based on a distorted belief that was produced by an activating event.

C. Psychological Perspective – Learning Models

4. Mental illness is a product of learned behavior that is maladaptive.

D. Psychological Perspectives – Humanistic Models

5. The interactions of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors contribute to abnormal behavior.

E. Psychological Perspectives – Cognitive Models

6. Genetic factors, defects in neurotransmitter functioning, and underlying brain abnormalities, contribute to mental illness.

F. Sociocultural Perspective

7. Our childhood experiences contribute to the development of mental illness.

G. Biopsychosocial Perspective

8. Abnormal behavior is caused by societal failures, and is a description of behavior that deviates from social norms.

9. A malfunction in the physiology of the body produces symptoms of mental illness.

10. Abnormal behavior manifests from a distorted concept of the self.