Exam 1: Abnormal Behavior in Historical Context

In psychoanalytic psychotherapy, it is important for patients to

When 20-year-old Ariel was first diagnosed with schizophrenia, her family wanted to know if and how the disorder would progress and how it would affect her in the future. In medical terms, the family wanted to know Ariel's

Chuckie wanted an ice cream bar before dinner and he thought about going and taking one without permission. However, after thinking about it, he decided to get permission from his mom. Chuckie was operating according to the _______ principle.

According to your textbook, mass hysteria may simply demonstrate the phenomenon of ______________, in which the experience of an emotion spreads to those around us.

Realizing that patients were often unaware of material previously recalled under hypnosis, Breuer and Freud hypothesized the existence of ________, a concept considered one of the most important developments in the history of psychopathology.

Compare and contrast the supernatural model of abnormal behavior and the biological model of abnormal behavior.

Although Freud conceptualized the libido as the life energy within the id, many people think of it as the

According to Freudian theory, anxiety is a signal for the ego to marshal its defense mechanisms, which function as

In contrast to the asylums of the early 18th century, the psychosocial approach called "moral therapy" advocated all of the following EXCEPT

In ancient Greece, some "humoral excesses" thought to be causing psychological disorders were treated by

Which of the following degrees is earned by a psychiatrist?

After Philippe Pinel systematically introduced moral therapy as a treatment in mental hospitals in France, a similar type of treatment was first established in a U.S. hospital by

A beginning introductory psychology student is worried about the selfish and sometimes dangerous drives of his id and wonders if it will make him commit crimes. You, a veteran of introductory psychology, respond confidently by telling him not to worry because, according to Freud,

In the late 1800s, the emphasis on a biological cause of mental disorder ironically resulted in reduced interest in treatments for mental patients because it was thought that

In Erik Erikson's theory of lifespan development, an individual reaches the mature stage when he or she is about ________ years old.

The concepts of "self-actualizing" and "the hierarchy of needs" are most closely associated with the theories of

A patient arrives in your office with a severe fear of spiders. You treat this patient by gradually introducing her to snake images, snake toys, and eventually live snakes in order to show her that nothing bad happened in the presence of these objects. You are using the therapeutic technique called

Bloodletting, a treatment devised centuries ago to restore the balance of humors, was accomplished with the use of

Which of the following is an accurate statement about "stage" theories of development?

A four-year-old girl sucks her thumb, a teenager binges on food, and an adult woman bites her fingernails. According to the Freudian theory of psychosexual development, all three are fixated at the ________ stage.