Describe the premise of the medical model of abnormal behavior
What will be an ideal response?
The medical model proposes that it is useful to think of abnormal behavior as a disease and is the basis for many of the terms used to refer to abnormal behavior including "mental illness," "psychological disorder," and "psychopathology.". This model became popular during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and is a strong influence in the way we think about abnormal behavior today.
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Arthur Patterson (1974) studied the hostility levels of high school football players both one week before and one week after the football season. If engaging in socially acceptable aggressive behaviour like football reduces hostility, then the players' level of hostility should have
A) increased on the football field, but decreased in classes. B) been dependent on personality variables. C) increased over the duration of the playing season. D) remained the same over the duration of the playing season. E) decreased over the duration of the playing season.
Piaget believed that through __________, young children practice and strengthen newly acquired representational schemes
A) logical reasoning B) language acquisition C) pretending D) physical activity