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History of Abnormal Psychology

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

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.

a)

Abnormal Behavior

b)

Psychological Illness

c)

Psychological Disorder

d)

Psychopathology

2.

Which among the following is not a criteria of abnormal behavior?

a)

dysfunction

b)

disease

c)

dangerousness

d)

distress

3.

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?

a)

dysfunction

b)

disease

c)

dangerousness

d)

distress

4.

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?

a)

Those Filipino and Muslim groups see Lady Gaga's attitudes and behaviors as culturally typical.

b)

Lady Gaga's behaviors and attitudes is discriminatory.

c)

Lady Gaga is dangerous.

d)

Those Filipino groups see Lady Gaga's attitudes and behaviors as inappropriate for them.

5.

The recent classification and statistical manual for mental disorders was published in 2013 by _.

a)

American Psychological Association

b)

World Health Organization

c)

American Psychiatric Association

d)

Psychological Association of the Philippines

6.

When was DSM-5 published?

a)

May 13, 2018

b)

May 18, 2013

c)

March 13, 2018

d)

March 18, 2018

7.

When a disorder or sympton lasts a longer period of time, it is said to be _____.

a)

chronic

b)

acute

c)

time-limited

d)

episodic

8.

When a disorder improves or recovers in a relatively short time with no signs of recurrence, it is said to be _____.

a)

chronic

b)

acute

c)

time-limited

d)

episodic

9.

The anticipated course of a disorder is called _____.

a)

incidence

b)

prevalence

c)

prognosis

d)

description

10.

This refers to the study of abnormal behavior across the entire age span.

a)

Abnormal Psychology

b)

Developmental Psychopathology

c)

Lifespan Developmental Psychopathology

d)

Psychopathology

11.

During the Middle Ages, this is a mental disorder in which the patient is believed to be a wolf or some other nonhuman animal.

a)

tarantism

b)

St. Vitus' dance

c)

lycanthropy

d)

lunacy or non compos mentis

12.

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.

a)

tarantism

b)

St. Vitus' dance

c)

lycanthropy

d)

lunacy or non compos mentis

13.

Our DSM was patterned to this German's work of classifying mental disorder.

a)

Emil Kraepelin

b)

Wilhelm Wundt

c)

Philippe Pinel

d)

Sigmund Freud

14.

This French physician started the humane treatment of the mentally ill at the Paris asylum for men in Bicêtre.

a)

Emil Kraepelin

b)

Wilhelm Wundt

c)

Philippe Pinel

d)

Sigmund Freud

15.

The founder of the practice of hypnotism.

a)

Franz Anton Mesmer

b)

Jean-Martin Charcot

c)

Sigmund Freud

d)

Josef Breuer

16.

He employed the techniques of mesmerism and discovered the organic basis for hysteria, which greatly contributes to his student's ultimate proposition of psychoanalysis.

a)

Franz Anton Mesmer

b)

Jean-Martin Charcot

c)

Sigmund Freud

d)

Josef Breuer

17.

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.

a)

Franz Anton Mesmer

b)

Jean-Martin Charcot

c)

Sigmund Freud

d)

Josef Breuer

18.

DSM stands for (a)   . (ALL CAPITAL LETTERS ONLY. NO SYMBOLS.)

19.

This refers to the scientific study of psychological disorders.

a)

Psychiatry

b)

Abnormal Psychology

c)

Psychopathology

d)

Deviance

20.

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.

a)

Moral Therapy

b)

Mental Hygiene Movement

c)

Psychoanalysis

d)

Humanistic-Existential Therapy

21.

The pioneer and great crusader for the mental hygiene movement in the United States.

a)

Philippe Pinel

b)

Eil Kraepelin

c)

Dorothea Dix

d)

William James