Abnormal Psychology Quizzes Online & Trivia

A test CAN be valid but not reliable but a test CANT be reliable if it is not valid

The top of Maslow's Hierarchy of needs is Self-actualization

The evaluation of all medical and mental health procedures to ensurethat they provide the best therapeutic value for the least cost is the notion behind a managed health care.

Maslow is famous for delineating a hierarchy of needs. The detail of needs can be subsumed into basic needs, psychological needs, and self-fulfilment needs. This hierarchy has stood the test of time and is likely never to be superseded. This is because it is relevant to ALL human beings, whatever their culture, religion, race, age, education or background. Hence it is a humanistic model of psychology. `it has proved useful to the development of personality measurement and to management training.

Impairment, dysfunction, cultural standards (what is not normal in a culture)

Everything is in a constant flux including therefore nothing is absolute Truth, knowledge and morality as seen through each persons perspective evolve through each generations of change. Cultures nor varying societies are not immune to growth and the changing times

Anhedonia

Love

Delusions, hallucinations, or marked disturbance in thinking, affect or speech are demonstrated.

Renaissance

Recurrent obsessions or compulsions that the patient recognizes are excessive or unreasonable. Significant distress or imapirment, or disruption by symptoms for more than one hour a day.

Client s are thought to "project" themselves onto the test. They are used as supplementary insights.