Trephining refers to the process of ____.
a. putting leaches on the body to remove bad blood
b. making a person chant and pray to drive out evil spirits
c. changing one's diet to improve one's physical and mental health
d. boring a hole in the skull to let demons escape
Question 2In some non-Western societies today, headaches, depression, and seizures are all believed to be caused by offended ancestral spirits or by evil forces that possess the sufferer. This type of explanation is called ____.
a. naturalism
b. demonology
c. trephining
d. exorcism
Question 3Professor Martin, a historian who studies ancient cultures, would likely suggest that prehistoric societies attributed mental illness to ____.
a. social stressors
b. sorcery
c. chemical imbalance
d. biological disequilibrium
Question 4Throughout history, most popular ideas about abnormal behavior have been ____.
a. rooted in the beliefs of a given time period and society
b. based on religious dogma of the day
c. rooted in supernatural explanations
d. based on scientific evidence
Question 5Dr. Chu reports that mental patients are no more dangerous than other people.. What does research suggest about the doctor's statement?
a. Research shows that there is no correlation between mental patients and dangerousness.
b. Research shows that patients are considerably more dangerous than others in the population.
c. Research shows that individuals with dual diagnoses are slightly more dangerous than other patients.
d. Research shows that mental patients are actually less dangerous than are others in the population.
Question 6Morgan is a highly respected teacher and poet whose works have been published in three languages. He also suffers from bipolar disorder and has never been successfully treated. This case ____.
a. supports the claim that mental disorders are usually the result of bad parenting and past traumatic experiences
b. contradicts the claim that people with mental disorders cannot contribute until they are cured
c. contradicts the claim that mentally disturbed people are recognizable
d. supports the idea that mentally disturbed people can never function normally or hold down jobs
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