In a study by David Rosenhan (1973) researchers were admitted as patients into various mental hospitals after they falsely claimed to be “hearing voices.” This study best illustrated the negative effects of: __________?

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1. Norton hears disembodied voices all the time that give him strange commands. Yesterday he finished building a concrete landing paid in his backyard for a UFO.The voices have told him that the space craft will land over the weekend and take him to more advanced civilization 27 light years from earth.In this case the voices that Norton hears are ___________?

   A. delusions
   B. compulsions
   C. loosening of associations
   D. hallucinations

2. Many people repeatedly go in and out of mental hospitals. Typically such people are released readmitted because________

   A. they have been stabilized through drug therapy; their condition deteriorates once again because of inadequate out patient care
   B. they run out of funds to pay for hospitalization, they once again can afford it
   C. they have been cured of their disorder, they develop another disorder
   D. they no longer want to be hospitalized; they voluntarily re-commit themselves

3. Biological models of mental disorders explain mental illness as resulting from which of the following factors?

   A. Biochemical imbalance
   B. Genetic predisposition
   C. Familial transmission
   D. Brain defects
   E. All of the above

4. Natasha claimed that her failure to get “A’s in all her college courses meant she was incompetent.Her therapist calmly challenged his assertion commenting. “By your strange calculations, well over 90 percent of all college students are incompetent!” The therapist’s response was most typical of a(n)______therapist.

   A. electic
   B. psychoanalytic
   C. cognitive
   D. behavior

5. Which during has provided help to schizophrenia patients experiencing auditory hallucinations and paraonia?

   A. Ativan
   B. Xanax
   C. Thorazine
   D. ithium

6. About________of patients with eating disorders are female

   A. 40%
   B. 50%-60%
   C. 75%
   D. 90%-95%

7. A chest implant that intermittently stimulates the vagus nerve has been used to treat some patients with:

   A. bulmia.
   B. anxiety dis orders.
   C. schizophrenia.
   D. chronic depression.

8. Which form of therapy would most likely help depressed patients by teaching them how to resolve disagreements with their friends?

   A. humanistic therapy
   B. interpersonal psychotherapy
   C. psychoanalysis
   D. cognitive therapy

9. After being released from a hospital many schizophernic patients stop taking their anti psychotic medication because:

   A. their mental impairment causes them to forget.
   B. of the unpleasant side effects.
   C. most schizophrenics don’t believe they are ill.
   D. all of the above.

10. Which type of mental illness is most resistant to change?

    A. Personality disorders
    B. Eating disorders
    C. Anxiety disorders
    D. Schizophrenia