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1. As part of the spread of moral treatment of those with mental illnesses,
Dorothea Dix helped establish
__________ hospitals across the United
States. (pp. 9–10)
3. One feature of abnormal psychological
functioning that is defined as behavior
that is consistently careless, hostile, or
confused, thus placing a person or people around them at risk. (p. 3)
5. A __________ is the degree to which
events or characteristics vary with each
other. (p. 20)
6. When an experimenter uses a selection
procedure that ensures each participant
has the same chance of being placed in
either the control group or an experimental group, (s)he is using __________
assignment. (p. 24)
9. A(n) __________ variable is the condition that is manipulated in an experiment to see if it has an effect on another
variable. (p. 23)
13. A detailed description of one person’s
life and psychological problems.
(pp. 20–21)
16. The therapeutic approach created by
Sigmund Freud that emphasizes unconscious psychological processes as the
cause of psychopathology. (p. 12)
17. The group of participants in an experiment that is not exposed to the independent variable. (p. 24)
18. The number of new cases of a disorder
occurring in a population during a specific period of time is referred to as
__________. (p. 22)
19. A(n) __________ is a research procedure
in which a variable is manipulated and
its effect on another variable is observed and measured. (p. 23)
20. __________, also referred to as therapy,
is a procedure to help change abnormal
behavior into more normal behavior.
(p. 4)
22. When a new drug is being tested on a
group of experimental participants, researchers may administer a __________
drug to a group of control participants
to compare to the new drug’s effectiveness. (pp. 24–25)
23. The __________ perspective holds the
view that the chief causes of abnormal
functioning are psychological. (p. 10)
24. The field devoted to the scientific study
of psychopathology in an effort to describe, predict, explain, and change unhealthy patterns of behavior is called
__________ psychology. (p. 2)
25. When someone’s unhealthy patterns of
functioning are unpleasant or upsetting
to that person, they are experiencing
__________. (p. 3)
1. If you believe that the chief causes of
abnormal psychological functioning are
mainly physical, then your view is
called the __________ perspective.
(p. 10)
2. A research method where a researcher
produces abnormal-like behaviors in
laboratory participants and then conducts experiments on the participants is
called a(n) __________ experiment.
(p. 26)
3. In the 1960s, hundreds of thousands of
patients were released from public mental hospitals in a policy called
__________. (p. 14)
4. __________ refers to the total number of
cases of a disorder occurring in a population during a specific period of time.
(p. 22)
7. __________ psychologists seek to understand how such factors as culture, race,
ethnicity, and gender affect behavior
and how people from different backgrounds may differ psychologically.
(pp. 16–17)
8. An important principle of mental health
care, __________, refers to attempts to
correct the social conditions that give
rise to psychological disorders. (p. 16)
10. A(n) __________ variable is the condition that is measured or observed in an
experiment to see if it is affected by another variable. (p. 23)
11. When a person’s symptoms interfere
with their ability to conduct daily activities in a constructive way, they are experiencing __________. (p. 3)
12. Today’s leading form of health care coverage is the __________ program, where
an insurance company makes key decisions about a client’s mental health care,
including which providers may be seen
and how many sessions will be covered.
(pp. 16–17)
14. Psychologically abnormal behaviors
often demonstrate the concept of
__________, which means that a person’s behavior differs markedly from
society’s expectations of normal or
proper functioning. (p. 2)
15. In this form of experimental design,
participants are not told if they are in
an experimental or a control group.
(pp. 24–25)
16. The individuals chosen for a study are
called subjects, or __________, and researchers must ensure that their rights
are not violated. (pp. 19, 21)
21. During the Renaissance, a hospital or
monastery would be converted into a(n)
__________, where people with mental
illnesses could be cared for. (pp. 8–9)
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