Why were most mental patients released from mental hospitals in the 1950s?
a. Improved psychotherapy cured patients previously considered incurable.
b. Most patients recover better in a less restrictive environment
c. Governments could no longer afford to pay for mental hospitals.
d. Governments needed the mental hospital buildings to use them as prisons.
b
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Moral treatment, the eighteenth-century innovation of philippe pinel and william turke, was characterized by
a. daily compulsory church attendance b. imposition of a work schedule to teach patients duty and productivity c. separation of patients from evil influences outside their homes d. kind treatment of patients and work to occupy their minds
Under the normal curve, the probability of a score occurring within one
standard deviation (plus or minus) of the mean is a. .68 b. .50 c. 2 to 1 d. .68%
The primary function of the __________ allows humans to speak and understand language, to solve complex problems, and to think conceptually
a) limbic system b) hippocampus c) cerebral cortex d) corpus callosum