Exam 1: What Is Abnormal Psychology

According to Freud,the mind can be likened to a(n)________.

According to Freud,a child's moral standards become internalized through the formation of the ________.

Many of the earliest asylums were leprosariums.

Social-cognitive theory is associated with ________.

The study of the heritable and acquired changes in genes regulation is known as __________ .

According to Freud,the ego is governed by the ________ principle.

A little boy is allowed to play with a laboratory rat and shows no fear of it.Then,a scientist makes a scary noise by banging an iron bar whenever the little boy reaches for the rat.Soon,the boy begins crying whenever the rat comes near him.In this study,the boy's fear of the rat is the ________.

Seeing things and hearing voices that are not present are considered ________.

The behavioural perspective sees abnormal behaviour as ________.

The superego operates according to the ________ principle.

Until the Age of Enlightenment,most Western societies attributed most mental illnesses to ________.

Describe the development of treatment centres for abnormal behaviour,from asylums through the mental hospital.

According to Freud,the psychic structure that operates mainly through secondary process thinking is the ________.

Undifferentiated cells that are capable of indefinite self-replication and differentiation into specialized cells are called stem cells.

According to Freud,the part of the mind that is largely hidden and can only be brought into awareness with great difficulty is the ________.

A cognition is most similar to ________.

The modern era of treatment can be traced,in large part,to ________.

Phenothiazines are a group of ________ drugs.

The two interactionist models discussed in the text are the diathesis-stress model and the ______ model.

Hallucinations are deemed unusual ________.