Exam 1: Abnormal Behavior in Historical Context

Describe the psychosocial approach to mental disorders called moral therapy.Mention key figures who contributed to or promoted this approach.Discuss whether this approach was effective in improving conditions for the mentally ill.Explain the reasons for the decline of moral therapy.

As a result of moral therapy, what was eliminated in asylums in the mid-18th century?

John is showing complete and almost unqualified acceptance of most of his client's feelings and actions.What is John demonstrating?

After graduation, two of your friends express an interest in psychology careers.Carl wants to work with relatively healthy individuals who are experiencing adjustment or vocational difficulties.Anna wishes to focus on the more severe psychological disorders and conduct research into their causes.Because you are studying abnormal psychology, they ask you for career advice.What do you tell them?

Which approach brought the systematic development of a more scientific approach to psychological aspects of psychopathology?

Who was the first theorist to argue that genetics were related to abnormal functioning?

In Freud's structure of the mind, which two elements are almost entirely unconscious?

What did Freud and Breuer discover about the process known as "catharsis"?

In Freudian theory, the terms "libido" and "thanatos" represent two basic but opposing drives.What are they?

In the late 1800s, there was an emphasis on biological causes of mental disorders, which ironically reduced interest in treatments for mental patients.Why did this happen?

Which of the following is associated with the humanistic theories of Carl Rogers?

Whose work lead to a decline in moral therapy?

Who is the concept of a "hierarchy of needs" most strongly associated with?

Why are hysterical disorders no longer considered to be caused by a "wandering" uterus?

In 14th- and 15th-century Europe, to what was inexplicable behaviour attributed?

According to Hippocrates' humoral theory, which term best characterizes the choleric personality?

According to Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs, individuals will be unable to achieve high levels of self-actualization and self-esteem unless which of the following has taken place?

In the 14th and 15th centuries, in addition to attributing mental illness to the supernatural, some people suggested that mental illness was caused by what other factor?

What was Erikson's greatest contribution to psychoanalytical theorizing?

What is the relationship between a presenting problem and a clinical description?