As a group, anxiety disorders

As a group, anxiety disorders
 
  a) are unlikely to be comorbid.
  b) are one of the least costly psychiatric disorders to society.
  c) cause little interpersonal problems.
  d) are the most common type of psychiatric diagnosis.

Question 2

Which physician believed that mental illness was a result of imbalances in body fluids?
 
  a) Dix
  b) Pinel
  c) Galen
  d) Kraepelin

Question 3

The ancient Greek physician, Galen, is examining a patient and concludes that the patient has an excess of black bile. What term will Galen use to describe this patient's condition?
 
  a) manic
  b) anxious
  c) melancholic
  d) schizophrenic

Question 4

What focus of St. Augustine's writings led him to be described as a forerunner of modern psychodynamic theories?
 
  a) sexuality
  b) aggression
  c) introspection
  d) the unconscious

Question 5

What was a common explanation of the causes of mental illness during the Middle Ages in Europe?
 
  a) demonology
  b) mental retardation
  c) natural, biological causes
  d) imbalances in reason and emotion

Question 6

An ancient Greek citizen hears that Galen proposed that personality and abnormal behavior were determined by an imbalance of humors. When this man asks a friend to describe what Galen means by humors, what will he be told?
 
  a) The term describes body fluids.
  b) The term describes an individual's spiritual life.
  c) Humors is a term used to describe basic mental capacities.
  d) An individual's reason and emotion are summarized by this one word.

Question 7

During what historical period in Europe was the role of reason de-emphasized in the study of mental illness?
 
  a) Medieval era
  b) World War I
  c) Middle Ages
  d) Renaissance

Question 8

Outbreaks of group hysteria were especially prevalent during what historical period in Europe?
 
  a) the B.C. era
  b) the Renaissance
  c) the Middle Ages
  d) the Medieval period