In the United States, the pioneer of moral treatment of the mentally ill was
A. Dorothea Dix.
B. John Locke.
C. Sigmund Freud.
D. René Descartes.
Answer: A
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Regarding handedness, which of the following statements is TRUE?
a. Right-handed persons are better at visualizing three-dimensional objects than left-handed persons. b. More musicians are ambidextrous than would normally be expected. c. Left-handed persons have more difficulty recovering from brain injury and language loss than do right-handed persons. d. Right-handed persons have a clear advantage in the sports of boxing, tennis, handball, and fencing.
When studying mental disorders, such as depression or anxiety, and the therapies used to treat them, psychologists are more likely to use
a. case studies. b. a controlled experiment. c. the survey method. d. the correlational method.
Children who are punished often by parents or teachers
a. learn to dislike parents and teachers. b. develop an internalized moral sense of right and wrong. c. learn to suppress aggressive behaviors. d. learn to respect the person punishing them.
Pete is obsessed with putting things in order. Among other things, he alphabetizes his old record collection, neatly folds and organizes his clothes by type and colour, and maintains all of his financial records in strict chronological order. He is constantly checking these items to make sure that they are in order, and he feels great distress when they are not. It is likely that Pete has:
A) claustrophobia. B) obsessive-compulsive disorder. C) generalized anxiety disorder. D) agoraphobia.