Exam 9: Naturalism and Humanitarian Reform

According to the text, which of the following clinicians introduced the "idea of psychotherapy as theater"?

Which of the following was NOT provided in the Malleus Maleficarum?

_______ was one of the first to argue that there are vanishing forms or extinction of entire species. This was a bolder claim than it might appear to be because in that day biblical creationists claimed that God could not make mistakes and therefore there could be no vanishing forms.

______ was the first to propose that evolution is driven by the inheritance of acquired characteristics.

Progressionism, the idea that there is a steady, linear advance across species, was advanced by

According to the text, what was the final ruling from the "Franklin Commission," a committee convened to investigate the medical practices of a well-known therapist?

_____ wrote The Mind of the Child, a classic in developmental psychology.

The debate between _____ and _____ centers on the nature of psychological explanations and whether such explanations should emphasize adequate or concise measurement.

_____ developed a treatment for various illnesses based on his belief in the role of magnetism as it interacts with the body.

Early evolutionary theorists were captivated by the idea that ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny. This idea means that

"In no case may we interpret an action as the outcome of the exercise of a higher psychical faculty, if it can be interpreted as the outcome of the exercise of one which stands lower in the psychological scale." This extension of Ockham's Razor and principle of parsimony was advanced by _______ as a means of countering the anthropomorphism of early comparative psychologists.

_____ argued that belief in demons is pure nonsense because there could be only one power and that is God.

The individual who treated the so-called "Wild Boy of Aveyron" is one of the great pioneers in the study of the care and treatment of children with cognitive disabilities. This person was

After returning to England following the voyage of the Beagle, Darwin continued to struggle with the mechanism of evolution. A breakthrough came when he read the work of ________ on the principle of _______.

Under the leadership of _____, reform in the care of people with mental illnesses became a massive social movement in the United States.

Some of the most important reform movements in the care and treatment of people with mental illnesses in England were carried on at the York Retreat. Important names associated with the York Retreat are

As early as 1563, _____ challenged the belief in witches by suggesting that most women accused were Harmless individuals with mental disorders. He was then accused of witchcraft.

Profit was made from the witch hunts because

Which of the following is NOT a contribution from Benjamin Rush?

Which of the following was NOT one of Pinel's classifications for mental disorders?