PSYC 375- Final Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
behaviour therapy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The use of learning
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principles in treating behavioral or emotional problems.
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Jean-Martin Charcot - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Unlike most of the
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physicians of his day, concluded that hysteria was a real disorder. He
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theorized the inherited predisposition toward hysteria could become
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actualized when traumatic experience or hypnotic suggestion causes an
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idea or a complex of ideas to become dissociated from consciousness.
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Isolated from rational control, such dissociated ideas become powerful
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enough to cause the symptoms associated with hysteria, for example,
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paralysi
Marquis de Puységur - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Found that placing
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patients in a sleeplike trance was as effective in alleviating ailments as
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was Mesmer's approach, which necessitated a crisis. He also discovered
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a number of basic hypnotic phenomena.
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approach-approach conflict - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-According to | | | | | |
Lewin, the type of conflict that occurs when a person is attracted to two
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goals at the same time.
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,Dorothea Lynde Dix - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Caused several states (and
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foreign countries) to reform their facilities for treating mental illness by
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making them more avail- able to those needing them and more humane
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|in their treatment.
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Hippocrates - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Argued that all mental and | | | | | | | |
physical disorders had natural causes and that treatment of such
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disorders should consist of such things as rest, proper diet, and exercise.
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Pierre Janet - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Like Charcot, theorized that
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components of the personality, such as traumatic memories, could | | | | | | | | |
become dissociated from the rest of the personality and that these
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dissociated components are responsible for the symptoms of hysteria
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and for hypnotic phenomena
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Emil Kraepelin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Published a list of categories of
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mental illness in 1883. Until recent times, many clinicians used this list
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to diagnose mental illness. Today the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
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of Mental Disorders (2000) serves the same purpose. Kraepelin was also
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a pioneer in the field known today as psychopharmacology.
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Franz Anton Mesmer - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Used what he thought
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were his strong magnetic powers to redistribute the magnetic fields of
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his patients, thus curing them of their ailments.
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,Philippe Pinel - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Among the first, in modern
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times, to view people with mental illness as sick people rather than
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criminals, beasts, or possessed individuals. In the asylums of which he
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was in charge, Pinel ordered that patients be unchained and treated
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with kindness in a peaceful atmosphere. Pinel was also responsible for
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many innovations in the treatment and understanding of mental illness.
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Benjamin Rush - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Often called the first U.S.
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psychiatrist. Rush advocated the humane treatment of people with
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mental illness but still clung to some earlier treatments, such as
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bloodletting and the use of rotating chairs. | | | | | |
Lightner Witmer - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Considered to be the founder
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of clinical psychology.
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Thomas Szasz - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Psychiatrist best known for his
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book, The Myth of Mental Illness, which reconsiders how abnormality
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should be understood and treated in the current era.
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animal magnetism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A force that Mesmer and
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others believed is evenly distributed throughout the bodies of healthy
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people and unevenly distributed in the bodies of unhealthy people.
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, artificial somnambulism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The sleeplike trance
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that Puysegur created in his patients. It was later called a hypnotic
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trance.
contagion effect - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The tendency for people to be
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more susceptible to suggestion when in a group than when alone.
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homeopathic magic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The type of sympathetic
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magic involving the belief that doing something to a likeness of a person
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will influence that person
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Nancy school - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A group of physicians who
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believed that because all humans are suggestible, all humans can be
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hypnotized.
medical model of mental illness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The
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assumption that mental illness results from such biological causes as
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brain damage, impaired neural transmissions, or bio- chemical
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abnormalities.
posthypnotic amnesia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The tendency for a
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person to forget what happens to him or her while under hypnosis.
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Correct Answers
behaviour therapy - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The use of learning
| | | | | | | |
principles in treating behavioral or emotional problems.
| | | | | |
Jean-Martin Charcot - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Unlike most of the
| | | | | | | |
physicians of his day, concluded that hysteria was a real disorder. He
| | | | | | | | | | | |
theorized the inherited predisposition toward hysteria could become
| | | | | | | |
actualized when traumatic experience or hypnotic suggestion causes an
| | | | | | | | |
idea or a complex of ideas to become dissociated from consciousness.
| | | | | | | | | | |
Isolated from rational control, such dissociated ideas become powerful
| | | | | | | | |
enough to cause the symptoms associated with hysteria, for example,
| | | | | | | | | |
paralysi
Marquis de Puységur - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Found that placing
| | | | | | | |
patients in a sleeplike trance was as effective in alleviating ailments as
| | | | | | | | | | | |
was Mesmer's approach, which necessitated a crisis. He also discovered
| | | | | | | | | |
a number of basic hypnotic phenomena.
| | | | |
approach-approach conflict - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-According to | | | | | |
Lewin, the type of conflict that occurs when a person is attracted to two
| | | | | | | | | | | | | |
goals at the same time.
| | | |
,Dorothea Lynde Dix - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Caused several states (and
| | | | | | | | |
foreign countries) to reform their facilities for treating mental illness by
| | | | | | | | | | |
making them more avail- able to those needing them and more humane
| | | | | | | | | | |
|in their treatment.
| |
Hippocrates - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Argued that all mental and | | | | | | | |
physical disorders had natural causes and that treatment of such
| | | | | | | | | |
disorders should consist of such things as rest, proper diet, and exercise.
| | | | | | | | | | |
Pierre Janet - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Like Charcot, theorized that
| | | | | | | |
components of the personality, such as traumatic memories, could | | | | | | | | |
become dissociated from the rest of the personality and that these
| | | | | | | | | | |
dissociated components are responsible for the symptoms of hysteria
| | | | | | | | |
and for hypnotic phenomena
| | |
Emil Kraepelin - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Published a list of categories of
| | | | | | | | | |
mental illness in 1883. Until recent times, many clinicians used this list
| | | | | | | | | | | |
to diagnose mental illness. Today the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual
| | | | | | | | | |
of Mental Disorders (2000) serves the same purpose. Kraepelin was also
| | | | | | | | | |
a pioneer in the field known today as psychopharmacology.
| | | | | | | | |
Franz Anton Mesmer - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Used what he thought
| | | | | | | | |
were his strong magnetic powers to redistribute the magnetic fields of
| | | | | | | | | | |
his patients, thus curing them of their ailments.
| | | | | | |
,Philippe Pinel - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Among the first, in modern
| | | | | | | | |
times, to view people with mental illness as sick people rather than
| | | | | | | | | | | |
criminals, beasts, or possessed individuals. In the asylums of which he
| | | | | | | | | | |
was in charge, Pinel ordered that patients be unchained and treated
| | | | | | | | | | |
with kindness in a peaceful atmosphere. Pinel was also responsible for
| | | | | | | | | | |
many innovations in the treatment and understanding of mental illness.
| | | | | | | | |
Benjamin Rush - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Often called the first U.S.
| | | | | | | | |
psychiatrist. Rush advocated the humane treatment of people with
| | | | | | | | |
mental illness but still clung to some earlier treatments, such as
| | | | | | | | | | |
bloodletting and the use of rotating chairs. | | | | | |
Lightner Witmer - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Considered to be the founder
| | | | | | | | |
of clinical psychology.
| |
Thomas Szasz - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-Psychiatrist best known for his
| | | | | | | | |
book, The Myth of Mental Illness, which reconsiders how abnormality
| | | | | | | | | |
should be understood and treated in the current era.
| | | | | | | |
animal magnetism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A force that Mesmer and
| | | | | | | | |
others believed is evenly distributed throughout the bodies of healthy
| | | | | | | | | |
people and unevenly distributed in the bodies of unhealthy people.
| | | | | | | | |
, artificial somnambulism - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The sleeplike trance
| | | | | | |
that Puysegur created in his patients. It was later called a hypnotic
| | | | | | | | | | | |
trance.
contagion effect - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The tendency for people to be
| | | | | | | | |
more susceptible to suggestion when in a group than when alone.
| | | | | | | | | | |
homeopathic magic - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The type of sympathetic
| | | | | | | |
magic involving the belief that doing something to a likeness of a person
| | | | | | | | | | | |
will influence that person
| | | |
Nancy school - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-A group of physicians who
| | | | | | | | |
believed that because all humans are suggestible, all humans can be
| | | | | | | | | | |
hypnotized.
medical model of mental illness - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The
| | | | | | | |
assumption that mental illness results from such biological causes as
| | | | | | | | | |
brain damage, impaired neural transmissions, or bio- chemical
| | | | | | | |
abnormalities.
posthypnotic amnesia - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-The tendency for a
| | | | | | | |
person to forget what happens to him or her while under hypnosis.
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