Exam 1: Introduction and Methods of Research

Hippocrates diagnoses one of his patients as suffering from mania. The patient is probably ______.

Differences between monozygotic twins are the results of ______ differences.

The "Malleus Maleficarum" was ______.

Many of the nation's homeless people are discharged mental patients.

Randy is running a study on alcohol and aggressive behavior. He randomly divides his subjects into two groups because he knows that if he allows his subjects to choose their Own groups, aggressive subjects will tend to choose the group receiving alcohol while Non-aggressive subjects will tend to choose the group receiving no alcohol. He then Would not be able to distinguish the effects of the alcohol from the effects of subjects' Innate aggressiveness. This tendency of his aggressive subjects to choose the alcohol Group is called a(n) _______.

A night's entertainment in London a few hundred years ago may have included peering at the inmates at the local asylum.

A state of being unaware of whether one has received an experimental treatment while participating in an experimental study is known as being ______.

The basic building blocks of heredity are ______.

A sample in which every member of a population has an equal chance of being chosen to participate in an experiment is called a(n) _______ sample.

All adopters of the medical model believe every pattern of abnormal behavior is a product of defective biology.

Archibald has recurring delusions that he is the King of England. He also hallucinates that the Queen of England sits next to him and he talks to her throughout the day. Which criterion of Abnormal behavior most closely reflects his behavior?

Traditional native cultures attribute most mental illnesses to ______.

Concepts of health and illness have different meanings in different cultures.

The modern era of treatment can be traced to the efforts of individuals like Philippe Pinel.

In an experiment on treatments for depression, a researcher uses a sample consisting of depressed subjects who are NOT typical of the general population of depressed subjects. Although the treatment works on the sample subjects, it is unlikely to work on depressed People in general. Which type of validity does this study lack?

Masking the taste of an alcoholic beverage with a mixer in an experiment may keep subjects ______ as to whether or not they received the experimental treatment.

A human cell normally contains ______ chromosomes.

Asylums, or "madhouses," began to crop up throughout Europe in the mid-eighteenth century.

The Greek physician Galen discovered that arteries carried blood.

A condition involving paralysis and numbness with no known medical cause was ______ .