Exam 1: Abnormal Behavior

____ is the industrialization of health care through which large organizations determine what type and duration of treatment clients can have.

In some non-Western societies today, headaches, depression, and seizures are all believed to be caused by offended ancestral spirits or by evil forces that possess the sufferer. This type of explanation is called ____.

"Although I lived in a different country than Philippe Pinel, I also worked to establish moral treatment for mental patients." Who might have said this?

Research shows that in the United States, adolescents suffer from ____ more than other mental health issues.

What was the Malleus Maleficarum ?

Kunti, a Black slave who works on a Southern plantation in the 18^th century, tries to escape to freedom. A psychological diagnosis at that time would likely be that Kunti ____.

Which statement about the burden of mental disorders is accurate ?

Consider the statement, "A behavior pattern in an individual that is associated with distress or disability, and is not merely an expectable response to common stressors or losses." This is most consistent with the definition of abnormal behavior of ____.

Sensory misperceptions, which may include hearing voices others do not hear or seeing things other do not see, are called ____.

Morgan is a highly respected teacher and poet whose works have been published in three languages. He also suffers from bipolar disorder and has never been successfully treated. This case ____.

When psychologists talk about modifying abnormal behavior, they are referring to ____.

Isabel tells Dr. Paz that the spirits she sees of her dead grandparents are causing her a great deal of anxiety, although they have motivated her to pursue a medical degree Isabel lives in Brazil. If Dr. Paz diagnoses her as having a psychological disorder, he will likely attribute it to which criterion?

Catharsis assumes that ____.

This individual practiced medicine in Rome and related mental illness to the brain and central nervous system. His greatest contribution may have been compiling all medical knowledge from Hippocrates' time to his own. Who is he?

Jason says, "Mental illness is not based on voluntary, controllable behaviors." Jason's remark ____.

A psychologist defined intellectual disability solely on the basis of how far from "normal" an individual's IQ score is. The criterion used is ____.

The advent of psychotropic drugs in the 1950s was considered a major revolution in the treatment of mental disorders because _ ___.

Linda, Jayne, and Sheryl all are called "doctors." All are mental health professionals. However, Linda has a Psy.D., Jayne has an M.D., and Sheryl has a D.S.W. We can predict that ____.

Historians of the witchcraft age concluded that ____.

A history book states, "Benjamin Rush introduced humane policies into American mental hospitals, but it took Dorothea Dix to make significant positive reforms in mental hospital care. After her work, inhumane treatment was eliminated in the United States." What, if anything, is incorrect in this statement?