During the Middle Ages, treatments for mental illness in Europe focused on _____, which blamed abnormal behavior on supernatural forces, such as possession by the devil and on curses from witches and wizards.

A. demonology
B. asceticism
C. Gestaltism
D. ergotism


Answer: A. demonology

Psychology

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a. tolerance b. drug c. metabolic d. behavioral

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a. occipital lobe b. temporal lobe c. parietal lobe d. frontal lobe

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a. allows for the same individual to be selected more than once b. allows the probabilities to vary from one selection to the next c. ensures that the probability of individual selection increases as selection progresses d. can be used even if the entire population is unknown

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Visual information from the lateral geniculate area goes to the ____.

A. retina B. primary visual cortex C. thalamus D. hypothalamus

Psychology