1. __________ argues that societies invent the concept of mental illness so that they can control people whose unusual patterns of functioning upset or threaten the social order.
C. Thomas Szasz
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2. A person who suffered from the form of mass madness called lycanthropy may have believed him/herself to be possessed by:
B. wolves.
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3. A trephine is:
D. a stone instrument used to cut away a circular section of the skull during the Stone Age.
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4. According to theorist Jerome Frank, all forms of therapy have which three essential features?
C. a sufferer, a healer, and a series of contacts between healer and sufferer
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5. Emotions, thoughts, and behaviors that are psychologically abnormal are called all but which of the following?
C. mental instability
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6. General paresis, an irreversible disorder that causes physical and mental symptoms including paralysis and delusions of grandeur, was found to be caused by:
C. syphilis.
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7. Judgments of abnormality depend on _______________ as well as on cultural norms.
B. specific circumstances
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8. The Boston schoolteacher who made humane care a public and political concern in 19th century America was:
B. Dorothea Dix.
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9. The 2011 federal insurance parity law is concerned with:
C. providing equal coverage for mental and medical problems.
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10. The policy of releasing patients from public mental hospitals was known as:
D. deinstitutionalization.
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11. The role of a clinical practitioner in abnormal psychology is to: A. detect, assess, and treat abnormal patterns of functioning.
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12. Which was one of the