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1.
Maladaptive behavior causes people to suffer distress and prevents then from functioning in daily life.
A)True
B)False
2.
Plato classified mental disorders into epilepsy, mania, melancholia, and brain fever.
A)True
B)False
3.
A theory in ancient Chinese medical philosophy was that human emotions are controlled by internal organs.
A)True
B)False
4.
The phenomenon of dance frenzies was observed frequently in the Middle Ages.
A)True
B)False
5.
Aaron Beck and Albert Ellis were both key figures in the cognitive revolution.
A)True
B)False
6.
The discovery of phenothiazines made it possible to treat schizophrenia.
A)True
B)False
7.
The patient's rights movement emerged in the early 1970s.
A)True
B)False
8.
Psychic epidemics are now considered to occur when large numbers of people begin to engage in unusual behaviors that appear to have a psychological origin.
A)True
B)False
9.
Tarantism is the drilling of holes in the skulls of people displaying abnormal behavior.
A)True
B)False
10.
The practice of psychiatry has declined in status over the past two decades.
A)True
B)False
11.
The Kahun Papyrus provided a detailed description of the brain and assigned mental functioning to it.
A)True
B)False
12.
Dorothea Dix is known for lobbying to improve the conditions of mental health treatment facilities, and the moral treatment of patients.
A)True
B)False
13.
Freud believed that much of the mental life of an individual remains hidden from consciousness.
A)True
B)False
14.
The deinstitutionalization movement led to the drastic reduction in the number of patients in state psychiatric hospitals, as patients began to be treated in the community.
A)True
B)False
15.
B.F. Skinner, a key figure in the cognitive revolution, argued that self-efficacy beliefs are crucial in determining people's well-being.
A)True
B)False





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