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The treatment for mental illness espoused by French physician Philippe Pinel and English Quaker William Tuke was called _______ treatment by their contemporaries.
moral
A physician who offers psychotherapy is called a:
psychiatrist
The study design in which a researcher meets several times with a single research participant and interviews, tests, and physically evaluates that person in order to develop a detailed description of the person's life and psychological problem is called a(n) _______.
case study
Friedrich Anton Mesmer became famous, or "infamous," for his work with patients who were suffering from bodily problems that had no physical basis. His patients' disorders are termed:
hysterical
If a participant does NOT know in which condition she is being tested, she is participating in a study with a(n) _______ design.
masked
Why did many of the asylums in the 1500s became virtual prisons over time?
overcrowding
"What is going on? The insurance company says I have to stop my anger management program now!" The client who says this is MOST likely voicing concern about a:
managed care program.
The _______ mental health approach has an emphasis on community care for people with severe psychological disturbances.
community
The view that physical causes are at the root of mental illnesses is called the _______ perspective.
somatogenic
An example of an analogue experiment is:
having human participants live for a week in a simulated mental hospital to see how they respond
A major development in the treatment of the mentally ill was the introduction of _______ medications.
psychotropic
A theorist who sees abnormality as a problem in living usually refers to those seeking help with problems in living as:
clients.
Which statement BEST defines treatment?
It is a procedure designed to change abnormal behavior into more normal behavior.
A general understanding of the underlying nature, causes, and treatments of abnormal behavior is called:
nomothetic
_______ is the principle of correcting the social conditions that underlie psychological problems rather than waiting for psychological disorders to occur.
Prevention
The principle of informed consent assumes that:
the participant can understand the explanation.
The form of experiment used MOST often to study the psychological effects of unusual or unpredictable events is:
a natural experiment.
A "fake" pill used as the control condition in a drug study is a:
placebo
A researcher finds a strong positive correlation between ratings of life stress and symptoms of depression. The researcher may therefore be confident that:
life stress and depression are related.
Ancient societies commonly treated abnormal behavior by:
performing an exorcism.