Exam 2: Historical and Contemporary Views of Abnormal Behavior

Aristotle believed that

Who was Wilhelm Wundt?

Who was Clifford Beers?

The belief in the four humors as a means of explaining temperament

A behavioral psychologist would be most likely to use

People in the Middle Ages

The rationale behind deinstitutionalization was

The study of hypnosis and its relationship to hysteria was the starting point for

Shackling a patient to a wall with little food or heat would be most typical of

A catharsis is

Which of the following is recognized as a major biomedical breakthrough in psychopathology because it established the link between mental and physical illnesses?

Archaeology and early writing indicate that the first people to think that the brain was the site of mental functions were the

During the late nineteenth century, alienists

The ancestral roots of what we now know as psychoanalysis can be traced back to

The first classification of mental disorders involved

Who was Emil Kraepelin?

In 1983, a large group of West Bank Palestinian girls showed signs of illness. Some thought they were poisoned, but later it was discovered that psychological factors played a key role in most cases. This incident best illustrates

Benjamin Rush is credited with all of the following EXCEPT

All of the following are credited with emphasizing the link between brain pathology and mental illness EXCEPT

The role of learning is the central theme in