Exam 1: What Is Abnormal Psychology

Hippocrates diagnoses one of his patients as suffering from melancholia.The patient is probably ________.

Freud believed that the ________ is the repository of biological drives,or instincts,such as sex and aggression.

If you were living in what is now Canada in 1639 and were disabled or poor,you would likely be cared for in an asylum with people with psychological disorders.

Canadian Aboriginal healing and wellness promotion places a high value on __________.

The first asylums,or "madhouses," began to crop up throughout Europe in the ________ centuries.

Modern psychodynamic theories place more emphasis on the id than did Freud.

Explain the concept of risk factors and how they may impact a person's mental health.

Discuss the factors associated with the current exodus from mental hospitals in Canada.

Explain the basic tenets of the sociocultural perspectives and critically evaluate them.

Painful,aversive events that decrease or suppress the frequency of the preceding behaviour are known as ________.

All of the genetic material for an organism is called its ________.

In Ellis's A-B-C approach,the C stands for __________.

According to Freud,the moral standards and values of a child's parents and other key people in the child's life become internalized through the process of ________.

The junction between a transmitting neuron and a receiving neuron is called the ________.

A reward is any change in the environment that increases the frequency of the preceding behaviour.

According to Freud,the id follows the ________ principle.

Neurons transmit messages to other neurons by means of chemical substances known as ________.

Prevention efforts to mental health focus on __________.

Greenberg's neo-humanistic perspective emphasizes ________.

The attribution to others of one's own unacceptable impulses is ________.