ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY 8E ACTUAL
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
◉ exorcism.
Answer: Religious ritual that attributes disordered behavior to
possession by demons and seeks to treat the individual by driving
the demons from the body.
◉ psychosocial treatment.
Answer: Treatment practices that focuses on social and cultural
factors (such as family experience), as well as psychological
influences. These approaches include cognitive, behavioral, and
interpersonal methods.
◉ moral therapy.
Answer: Psychosocial approach in the 19th century that involved
treating patients as normally as possible in normal environments.
◉ mental hygiene movement.
Answer: Mid-19th-century effort to improve care of the mentally
disordered by informing the public of their mistreatment.
◉ psychoanalysis.
, Answer: Assessment and therapy pioneered by Sigmund Freud,
emphasizes exploration/insight of unconscious processes and
conflicts.
◉ Behaviorism.
Answer: Explanation of human behavior, including dysfunction,
based on principles of learning and adaptation derived from
experimental psychology.
◉ unconscious.
Answer: Part of the psychic makeup that is outside the awareness of
the person.
◉ catharsis.
Answer: Rapid or sudden release of emotional tension thought to be
an important factor in psychoanalytic therapy.
◉ psychoanalytic model.
Answer: Complex and comprehensive theory originally advanced by
Sigmund Freud that seeks to account for the development and
structure of personality, as well as the origin of abnormal behavior
◉ id.
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED SOLUTIONS
◉ exorcism.
Answer: Religious ritual that attributes disordered behavior to
possession by demons and seeks to treat the individual by driving
the demons from the body.
◉ psychosocial treatment.
Answer: Treatment practices that focuses on social and cultural
factors (such as family experience), as well as psychological
influences. These approaches include cognitive, behavioral, and
interpersonal methods.
◉ moral therapy.
Answer: Psychosocial approach in the 19th century that involved
treating patients as normally as possible in normal environments.
◉ mental hygiene movement.
Answer: Mid-19th-century effort to improve care of the mentally
disordered by informing the public of their mistreatment.
◉ psychoanalysis.
, Answer: Assessment and therapy pioneered by Sigmund Freud,
emphasizes exploration/insight of unconscious processes and
conflicts.
◉ Behaviorism.
Answer: Explanation of human behavior, including dysfunction,
based on principles of learning and adaptation derived from
experimental psychology.
◉ unconscious.
Answer: Part of the psychic makeup that is outside the awareness of
the person.
◉ catharsis.
Answer: Rapid or sudden release of emotional tension thought to be
an important factor in psychoanalytic therapy.
◉ psychoanalytic model.
Answer: Complex and comprehensive theory originally advanced by
Sigmund Freud that seeks to account for the development and
structure of personality, as well as the origin of abnormal behavior
◉ id.
