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WorksheetsHistory of Abnormal Psychology
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 21mins
This refers to a psychological dysfunction within an individual that is associated with distress or impairment in functioning and response that is not typical or culturally expected.
Abnormal Behavior
Psychological Illness
Psychological Disorder
Psychopathology
Which among the following is not a criteria of abnormal behavior?
dysfunction
disease
dangerousness
distress
Lily is having an emotional breakdown and sometimes this is exhibited also in her behaviors. Which of the following criteria best fits Lily's experience?
dysfunction
disease
dangerousness
distress
In the year 2012, Christian and Muslim groups protested during Lady Gaga's concert in the Philippines. They criticized Gaga's provocative lyrics and risqué costumes. For a widely Christian and Muslim country, these Filipinos see such attitudes and behaviors as deviant. Which criteria correctly describes the situation?
Those Filipino and Muslim groups see Lady Gaga's attitudes and behaviors as culturally typical.
Lady Gaga's behaviors and attitudes is discriminatory.
Lady Gaga is dangerous.
Those Filipino groups see Lady Gaga's attitudes and behaviors as inappropriate for them.
The recent classification and statistical manual for mental disorders was published in 2013 by _.
American Psychological Association
World Health Organization
American Psychiatric Association
Psychological Association of the Philippines
When was DSM-5 published?
May 13, 2018
May 18, 2013
March 13, 2018
March 18, 2018
When a disorder or sympton lasts a longer period of time, it is said to be _____.
chronic
acute
time-limited
episodic
When a disorder improves or recovers in a relatively short time with no signs of recurrence, it is said to be _____.
chronic
acute
time-limited
episodic
The anticipated course of a disorder is called _____.
incidence
prevalence
prognosis
description
This refers to the study of abnormal behavior across the entire age span.
Abnormal Psychology
Developmental Psychopathology
Lifespan Developmental Psychopathology
Psychopathology
During the Middle Ages, this is a mental disorder in which the patient is believed to be a wolf or some other nonhuman animal.
tarantism
St. Vitus' dance
lycanthropy
lunacy or non compos mentis
This is an ancient belief defined during the 18th century by William Blackstone as a phenomenon where an individual loses the use of his reason and has lucid intervals, of sometimes enjoying his senses, and sometimes not, and that frequently depending upon the phases of the mood.
tarantism
St. Vitus' dance
lycanthropy
lunacy or non compos mentis
Our DSM was patterned to this German's work of classifying mental disorder.
Emil Kraepelin
Wilhelm Wundt
Philippe Pinel
Sigmund Freud
This French physician started the humane treatment of the mentally ill at the Paris asylum for men in Bicêtre.
Emil Kraepelin
Wilhelm Wundt
Philippe Pinel
Sigmund Freud
The founder of the practice of hypnotism.
Franz Anton Mesmer
Jean-Martin Charcot
Sigmund Freud
Josef Breuer
He employed the techniques of mesmerism and discovered the organic basis for hysteria, which greatly contributes to his student's ultimate proposition of psychoanalysis.
Franz Anton Mesmer
Jean-Martin Charcot
Sigmund Freud
Josef Breuer
An Austrian physician and physiologist, wherein his case study of his client named Bertha Pappenheim or popularly known as Anna O, Sigmund Freud was introduced to the cathartic method which was pivotal to his idea of psychoanlysis.
Franz Anton Mesmer
Jean-Martin Charcot
Sigmund Freud
Josef Breuer
DSM stands for (a) . (ALL CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY. NO SYMBOLS.)
This refers to the scientific study of psychological disorders.
Psychiatry
Abnormal Psychology
Psychopathology
Deviance
A practice during the first half of 19th century which includes treating institutionalized patients as normally as possible in a setting that encouraged and reinforced normal social interaction.
Moral Therapy
Mental Hygiene Movement
Psychoanalysis
Humanistic-Existential Therapy
The pioneer and great crusader for the mental hygiene movement in the United States.
Philippe Pinel
Eil Kraepelin
Dorothea Dix
William James
