In a study of the effects of ice cream on mood, the ice cream can be described as what?
a. The dependent variable
b. The independent variable
c. A correlational variable
d. A confounding variable
Question 2The work of Dorothea Dix has been criticized for
a. interfering with the provision of moral therapy.
b. increasing the use of unproven treatment approaches.
c. popularizing humanitarian approaches.
d. preventing the development of biomedical approaches to mental illness.
Question 3In the early nineteenth century, psychiatrists were referred to as
a. alienists.
b. lunatics.
c. soothsayers.
d. purgatists.
Question 4Why was malarial therapy effective in treating general paresis?
a. The fever that was induced killed off the cause of the observed symptoms.
b. General paresis was caused by malaria, and malarial therapy triggered an immune response that destroyed the existing infection.
c. Malarial therapy prevented the syphilis spirochetes from entering the brain.
d. There is no known treatment for general paresis.
Question 5Imagine that it is 1885. A man complains of shattered nerves. He is lacking in energy and shows low mood. Physicians specializing in mental conditions
(alienists) would likely consider this person
a. a morally deficient individual.
b. as suffering from neurasthenia.
c. as suffering from hysteria.
d. as untreatable because the condition was biological.
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