Abnormal Psychology

14 answers

A person who is depressed after losing his job avoids social interaction for several months exhibits this element of abnormality.

maladaptiveness Correct
suffering
threatened behavior
dangerousness

An American psychiatrist believed that abnormal behavior was due to an excess of blood in the brain. He treated his patients by drawing copious amounts of blood from their brain.

Benjamin Rush Correct
Philippe Pinel
Dorothea Dix
Jean-Baptiste Pussin

He advocated the use of insulin shock therapy for treatment of mental illness

Ugo Cerletti
Louis Pasteur
Franz Anton Mesmer
Manfred Sakel Correct

He believed that the brain is responsible for awareness, thinking and emotional perception.

Paracelsus
Philippe Pinel
Hippocrates Correct
Leonardo da Vinci

He described the Germ theory of disease, which laid the foundation for establishing the biologic connections between infection, brain illness and abnormal behavior.

Carl Gustav Jung
Louis Pasteur Correct
Hippocrates
Philippe Pinel

He described the importance of goal-oriented achievement and contribution to the society.

Josef Breuer
Egaz Moniz
Sigmund Freud
Alfred Adler Correct

He was an advocate of humane treatment of mentally-ill patients.

Benjamin Rush
Philippe Pinel Correct
Dorothea Dix
Jean Marie Charcot

One of the elements that described abnormality in which an individual becomes a threat to himself or others.

threatened behavior
suffering
maladaptiveness
dangerousness Correct

Pioneer of hypnosis to treat patients with hysteria

Franz Anton Mesmer Correct
Louis Pasteur
Ugo Cerletti
Manfred Sakel

The principal part of the mind that is present at birth and is part of the unconscious

superego
no correct answer
id Correct
ego

The proponent of surgical therapy for mental disorders.

Alfred Adler
Sigmund Freud
Josef Breuer
Egaz Moniz Correct

The psychiatrist who developed the cathartic method of treatment

Sigmund Freud
Alfred Adler
Egaz Moniz
Josef Breuer Correct

This is the era wherein there was a revival in the belief that mental illnesses were caused by spiritual and demonic forces.

Dark Ages Correct
Baroque Era
Renaissance Period
Period of Reformation

Which is true of normality?

It is the expected behavior or way of living based on what is commonly observed in the majority of the population. Correct
A person who had a relationship breakup threatens to jump off a 30-ft building if his girlfriend does not talk to her.
A person who is underweight feels that she is fat and refuses to eat.
There is no single determinant or a generally accepted definition of normality.