Exam 1: Abnormal Behavior

Dr.Johns researched mental disorders using laboratory methods.He stressed the importance of directly observable behaviors and the conditions or stimuli that evoked, reinforced, or extinguished them.Dr.Johns adhered to which early viewpoint of mental illness?

Teresa, normally an energetic mother of three small children, is suddenly unable to go shopping, prepare meals, or even dress her children.Teresa's behavior illustrates the practical definition of abnormality called ____.

Throughout history, most popular ideas about abnormal behavior have been ____.

A psychologist says, "Because they have higher birthrates, racial and ethnic minorities in the United States are already a numerical majority.This increase in diversity has led to the field called multicultural psychology, which is interested in increasing the cultural sensitivity of mental health professionals." What portion of this statement is incorrect?

Eli refuses to let his daughter marry Avi because Avi's brother suffered from depression and committed suicide.Eli believes that any children his daughter and Avi would bear would be suicidal.Eli believes which myth about mental illness?

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 seek her medical degree.Isabel lives in Brazil.If Dr.Paz diagnoses her as having a psychological disorder, he will likely attribute it to which criterion?

Early psychological research, such as that by Emil Kraepelin, supported which assumption about abnormality?

During what period of time would a behavior disorder most likely be treated with the surgical method called trephining?

Many psychological problems stem from situations that are not under an individual's control.This fact counters the myth that ____.

According to Thomas Szasz, ____.

The early Christian Church believed that ____.

Catharsis assumes that ____.

One way to assess dysfunction is in terms of the discrepancy between ____.

Johanna is an M.D.who received intensive training in the ideas of Sigmund Freud.She also went through her own psychoanalysis as part of this training.We can guess that Johanna is a ____.

The most fruitful approach to using multicultural criteria is to rely on ____.

At one time, Abraham Lincoln, William James, news anchor Mike Wallace, and author J.K.Rowling each suffered from a mental disorder.Consequently, their examples contradict which of the following myths?

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

Suppose an archaeologist unearthed an ancient Greek document that contained instructions for the treatment of mental disorders such as melancholia and mania.What would the writing probably say?

Which of the following defines therapy most accurately?

Historians of the witchcraft age concluded that ____.