Panic, anxiety, and depression are common in those who survive a natural disaster. Why is that behavior not considered deviant?
That behavior is explained by the context in which it occurs.
An individual has a 9-to-5 job. However, this person seldom gets up early enough to be at work on time, and expresses great distress over this fact. This individual's behavior would be considered abnormal because it is:
dysfunctional and deviant.
A man is so miserable that he can barely tolerate living. According to the definition of abnormality, this description is an example of:
distress
The practice of trephination was probably used to:
allow the release of evil spirits.
Hippocrates attempted to treat mental disorders by:
correcting underlying physical pathology.
The basis for moral treatment of asylum patients was the belief that:
mental illness should be treated with sympathy and kindness.
Nineteenth century reform efforts in the care of those with mental disorders most closely resemble treatments used during:
the Greek and Roman period.
The "moral treatment" movement rapidly declined in the late nineteenth century because:
hospitals became underfunded and overcrowded.
The finding that syphilis causes general paresis is important because it supports the idea that:
organic factors can cause mental illness.
The somatogenic treatment for mental illness that seems to be the most successful is the use of:
various medications.
People who are not impaired enough to need confinement in a mental hospital but who cannot live on their own sometimes live in supervised homes. This sort of facility is part of:
the community mental health approach.
In the United States today, one is most likely to find a severely ill mental patient:
on the street or in jail.
The increased use of psychotropic medications in the past fifty years generally has led to:
deinstitutionalization and outpatient care.
When community programs are focused on correcting social conditions that give rise to psychological problems, the approach is called:
prevention.
Teaching people coping skills that protect them from stress is a part of:
the clinical practice of positive psychology.
Parity laws for insurance coverage of mental health treatment mandate that:
coverage for mental and physical problems must be reimbursed equally.
Which of the following sequences is correct in terms of prominence of mental health treatments in the United States during the twentieth century and beyond?
psychoanalytic, biological, cognitive, sociocultural
A psychologist does a study of an individual involving a history, tests, and interviews of associates. A clear picture is constructed of this individual so that his behavior is better understood. This study is:
a case study.
Case studies are helpful for all of the following reasons except that:
their results can be generalized.
A researcher finds individuals who report large numbers of "hassles" in their lives usually also report higher levels of stress. Those who report fewer "hassles" generally report lower levels of stress. The correlation between number of "hassles" and stre
positive.
Studies that determine the incidence and prevalence of a disorder in a particular population are called:
epidemiological studies.
The following experiment is conducted to study the causes of aggression in children. Half the children eat a sugared cereal; the remaining half eat cornflakes. The number of aggressive acts displayed by the children in one-hour play period after breakfast
the type of cereal is the independent variable, and the number of aggressive responses is the dependent variable.
The function of the double-blind design is to guard against:
participant and experimenter expectancies.
What is the term for studies that have the structure of experiments except that they use groups that already exist, instead of randomly assigning participants to control and experimental groups?
quasi-experiments
Which of the following would most appropriately be studied using a quasi-experimental design?
the effects of schizophrenic parents on children's adjustment