Paracelsus introduced the notion of psychic or mental causes for abnormal behavior and posed a treatment that would become known as
a. behaviorism.
b. hypnosis.
c. asylums.
d. tarantism.
Question 2The mean prevalence rate of hypochondrias/illness anxiety disorder in the general population is reportedly about
a. 12.
b. 27.
c. 4.8.
d. 2.5.
Question 3Symptoms of schizophrenia that represent deficits or covert symptoms are referred to as
a. positive.
b. negative.
c. neutral.
d. psychotic.
Question 4New approaches to treating people with mental disorder in the Renaissance period included which of the following?
a. Psychogenicism
b. Lycanthropy
c. Asylums
d. Tarantism
Question 5Lara's son is constantly ill. While she is by her son's bedside in the hospital, one of the nurses observes Lara injecting her son with a solution that is causing his illness. Lara may have
a. Munchauesen syndrome.
b. Munchauesen syndrome by proxy.
c. malingering.
d. malingering by proxy.
Question 6Symptoms of schizophrenia that represent excessive or overt symptoms are referred to as
a. positive.
b. negative.
c. neutral.
d. psychotic.
Question 7One possible cause of mass hysteria that occurred during the Middle Ages is
a. lack of emotional stability.
b. lack of feelings such as fear and panic.
c. ingestion of fungi on food.
d. belief that a person with mental disorders would undergo transformation into a werewolf.
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