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one who systematically gathers information in order to describe, predict and explain abnormality is a clinical:

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Scientist

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The stated and unstated rules for proper conduct that a society establishes are referred to as

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norms

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the history, values, institutions, and arts of a society make up that society's

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culter

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R.D Laing said " insanity- a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world." This statement illustrates

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that abnormality is situational

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is a person experienced anxiety or depression following a significant natural disaster, we would say that the person was

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exhibiting a typical reaction

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A person who is so miserable that he or she can see no reason for living BEST fits which of the following definitions of abnormality?

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distress

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Which aspect of the definition of abnormality includes the inability to care for oneself and work productively?

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dysfunction

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A secret Service agent steps in front of the President of the United States prepared to be killed or injured if the Presidents safety is threatened.Psychologically speaking, the Secret Service agents behavior is

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dysfunctional but no psychologically abnormal

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Despite popular misconceptions most people with psychological problems are not

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dangerous

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A researcher spends 15 hours per dat conducting experiments or doing library reading and records observations on color coded index cards. This person lives alone in the country but he doesn't interfere with others lives. The best description go the researches behavior is that it is

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eccentric

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Defining abnormal behavior, using the four Ds

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is still often vague and subjective

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Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of eccentrics noted by researchers in the field?

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having a diagnosable mental illness

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Clinical theorist Jerome Frank would say that all forms of therapy include all of the following EXCEPT a

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third party payer

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Severak researchers have shown that in a typical year in the united states about what percentage of adults show disturbances severe enough to need clinical treatment?

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over 15 percent

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Which of the following " new diagnosis" would someone experiencing overwhelming concern about the security of travel on planes and subways MOST likely receive?

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terrorism terror

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The use of exorcism in early societies suggest a belief that abnormal behavior was caused by

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evil spirits

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If you were being treated by a shaman, you would most likely be undergoing

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an exorcism

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Hippocrates contribution to the development of our understanding of mental illness was the view that such conditions were the result of

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natural causes

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Hippocrates attempted to treat mental disorders by

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correcting underlying physical pathology

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a flash mob is MOST similar to

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mass madness

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Tarantism and lyncanthropy are examples of

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mass madness

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mass madness is a general term that includes all of the following disorders common in the middle ages in europe except

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exorcism

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During the middle ages in europe, demonology dominated views of abnormality for all of the following reasons except:

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the culture rejected religious beliefs

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Johann Weyer considered to be the founder of the modern study of psychopathology was a physician in the

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1500s

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In many areas, asylums of the 1500s such a Bethlehem Hospital in London became

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tourist attractions

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What is the distinction of bethlehem hospital founded in 1547?

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popularity called bedlam and it came to represent deplorable conditions for patients

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The man who brought the reforms of moral therapy to northern England was

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william tuke

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The american school teacher who lobbied state legislatures for laws to mandate humane treatment of people with mental disorders was

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Dorthea Dix

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The decline in the use of moral treatment and the rise in the custodial care in mental hospitals at the end of the twentieth century is due to all of the following EXCEPT

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the total lack of success of moral treatment

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One factor that contributed to the decline of moral therapy was

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it did not work for everyone

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The fact that some people in the advanced stages of AIDS experience neurological damage that results in psychological abnormality supports what type of perspective about abnormal psychological functioning?

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somatogenic

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The finding that syphilis causes general paresis is important because it supports the idea that

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organic factors can cause mental illness

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Which of the following statements would offer the LEAST support for the somatogenic view of abnormal behavior?

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Hypotism has helped people give up smoking

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eugenics sterilization reflects the ____ perspective on abnormality

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somatogenic

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syphilis is to somagenic approach as ____ is to the psychogenic approach.

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hypnotism

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Mesmer became famous-or infamous- for his work with patients suffering from bodily problems with no physical basis. His parents disorders we termed:

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hysterical

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Which perspective was supported by the discovery that the symptoms of hysteria could be induced by hypnosis?

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psychogenic

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The early psychogenic treatment that was advocated by Josef Breuer and SIgmund Freud was

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hypnotism

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Psychoanalysis was developed as a form of

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outpatient therapy

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Which of the following patients is MOST likely to benefit most from the psychoanalytic treatment?

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someone who is insightful and thinks clearly

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People with severe mental illness are less likely to be___ than they were 50 years ago

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hospitalized in mental institutions

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a medical researcher develops a drug that decreases symptoms of depression and other mood disorders. the general term for this type of drug is

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psychotropic

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drugs that alleviate the symptoms of mental dysfunction by affecting the brain are called

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psychotropics

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jena is experiencing sadness, lack of energy, and low self worth. The condition is chronic and severe. If her psychiatrist prescribed medication it would likely be an

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antidepression drug

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The number of patients hospitalized in mental hospitals in the united states today is most similar to the number hospitalized in

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1990

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In the US today, one is MOST likely to find a severely ill mental patient

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on the street or in jail

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Problems with marital, family, peer, work, school or community relationships would be MOST similar to

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