Exam 1: What Is Abnormal Psychology

The ego uses defence mechanisms to ________.

In early Canada,the __________ community often took responsibility for the treatment of mentally ill patients and oversaw the development of asylums

A person who is cheerful,confident,and optimistic is said to be ________.

People can remain outwardly calm and controlled while they inwardly harbour murderous or lustful impulses of which they were unaware through the process of ________.

Describe Freud's views on the structure of personality and describe the various functions of each of the structures he proposed.

Each kind of neurotransmitter ________.

The number of homeless people in Canada has __________ in the past decade.

Exorcism involves __________.

A scientist rings a bell just prior to presenting meat to the dogs in his laboratory.After several pairings,the dogs begin salivating when the bell is rung,even when no meat is presented.In this study,the bell is the ________.

The first asylums in Europe were ________.

During the Middle Ages and the Renaissance,which of the following people was most likely to be accused of witchcraft?

Which of the following is NOT one of the criteria discussed in the text for judging a behaviour as abnormal?

Explain the principles of operant conditioning,clarifying the differences among positive reinforcers,negative reinforcers,and punishments,and between primary and secondary reinforcers.

Therapists who use multiple models to explain and treat abnormal behaviour are using the ________ treatment model.

Candy goes to a therapist for treatment of her test anxiety.Her therapist tells her that her test anxiety results from self-defeating attitudes,irrational self-talk,and faulty cognitions.Candy's therapist is most like ________.

The internal moral guardian that monitors the ego and passes judgment on right and wrong is the ________.

Compare the genome and the epigenome.

In judging whether or not a person's behaviour is socially unacceptable or violates social norms,clinicians must take into account ________.

The "downward drift" hypothesis suggests that mental illness leads to poverty.

According to Hippocrates,abnormal behaviour results from ________.