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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
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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
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He advocated the use of insulin shock therapy for treatment of mental illness
  • Ugo Cerletti
  • Louis Pasteur
  • Franz Anton Mesmer
  • Manfred Sakel Correct
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He believed that the brain is responsible for awareness, thinking and emotional perception.
  • Paracelsus
  • Philippe Pinel
  • Hippocrates Correct
  • Leonardo da Vinci
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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
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He described the importance of goal-oriented achievement and contribution to the society.
  • Josef Breuer
  • Egaz Moniz
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Alfred Adler Correct
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He was an advocate of humane treatment of mentally-ill patients.
  • Benjamin Rush
  • Philippe Pinel Correct
  • Dorothea Dix
  • Jean Marie Charcot
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One of the elements that described abnormality in which an individual becomes a threat to himself or others.
  • threatened behavior
  • suffering
  • maladaptiveness
  • dangerousness Correct
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Pioneer of hypnosis to treat patients with hysteria
  • Franz Anton Mesmer Correct
  • Louis Pasteur
  • Ugo Cerletti
  • Manfred Sakel
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The principal part of the mind that is present at birth and is part of the unconscious
  • superego
  • no correct answer
  • id Correct
  • ego
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The proponent of surgical therapy for mental disorders.
  • Alfred Adler
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Josef Breuer
  • Egaz Moniz Correct
20
The psychiatrist who developed the cathartic method of treatment
  • Sigmund Freud
  • Alfred Adler
  • Egaz Moniz
  • Josef Breuer Correct
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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
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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.
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