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Topic 0: Historical and Contemporary Views of Abnormal Behavior

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This activity contains 15 questions.

	What is trephining?   The belief that demons produce abnormal behavior. The process of making a hole in the skull. A commonly employed procedure for alleviating pressure on the brain. The study of bodily fluids.

	Which of the following was NOT one of the general categories of mental disorders proposed by Hippocrates?   Depression Melancholia Mania Phrenitis

	During the Middle Ages, what diagnosis would be given to someone caught howling at the moon?   Hysteria Lycanthropy Tarantism Melancholia

	During the Middle Ages, who was most likely to manage the mentally disturbed?   Clergy The penal system Social workers Physicians

	Who was Pinel?   A contemporary of Hippocrates who conducted research on the biological bases of mental illnesses. An advocate for humanitarian reform who has been incorrectly identified as initiating such reforms in France. An advocate of moral management who believed in astrology. The originator of the mental hygiene movement.

	Which of the following was NOT a reason for the demise of moral management?   Moral management was found rarely to be effective. Ethnic prejudice against the rising immigrant population. The rise of the mental hygiene movement. The overexpansion of hospital facilities.

	Which of the following is most typical of the care of the mentally ill during the first half of the twentieth century?   Hospital stays of limited duration in private hospitals. Hospital stays of limited duration followed by the provision of mental health services on an outpatient basis. Lengthy hospital stays in frequently inhuman conditions. A movement towards deinstitutionalization which placed many of the mentally ill in the hands of communities that were unable to provide adequate mental health services.

	What was the significance of the recognition of the relationship between syphilis and general paresis have?   It revealed that altered brain chemistry could cause psychopathology. It accelerated the search for new ways to diagnose mental disorders. It demonstrated that mental illnesses could have an organic basis. It lead to the discovery of ECT as a treatment for mental disorders.

	What is Emil Kraepelin credited with?   "Removing the chains" from the mentally ill in Paris. Establishing that mental disorders could be caused by psychological factors. Writing the 1st edition of the DSM. Beginning to develop a classification scheme for mental illnesses that is the basis for the categorizations employed today.

	Which of the following was the first to demonstrate that psychological factors could produce symptoms of mental illness?   Hippocrates Mesmer Freud Kraepelin

	Which of the following is a technique for revealing the unconscious?   Trephining Catharsis Tarantism Free association

	After receiving a certified letter that contained bad news, I now find that I get upset whenever I receive certified letters. Which of the following best accounts for this?   Operant Conditioning Classical Conditioning Psyhoanalysis Behaviorism

	Which of the following best describes moral management?   A form to treatment that emphasized understanding the difference between right and wrong A method of treatment that addressed social, individual, and occupational needs. The approach to treating the mentally ill that was promoted by Dorothea Dix A method of treatment that focused exclusively on physical well-being

	In the early part of the nineteenth century, what were psychiatrists called?   Psychoanalysts Alienists Medical professionals Lunatists

	Which of the following was NOT an effect of the discovery of effective antipsychotic medications?   Many schizophrenic patients were able to become functioning members of society A leveling off of the rate of admissions to psychiatric hospitals The development of hypotheses about the cause of schizophrenia ECT and psychosurgery ceased to be used to treat mental illness

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