A. they are potentially harmful and dangerous to others
B. they resist the attempts of others to offer help
C. their serve hallucinations make reasoning with them impossible
D. psychiatric hospitals are primarily for psychotics
Related Mcqs:
- Hammad sets extremely high standards for both himself and others. He tends to be rigid and inflexible and rarely allows himself to enjoy life. Freud would probably conclude that Hammad is dominated by:
A. his id
B. penis envy
C. his neuroticism
D. his superego - The widely murder of Kitty Genovese in New York in 1964, in which 38 people admitted witnessing the murder but not a single person went to her aid, was an example of which social-psychological phenomenon?
A. Bystander intervention
B. Social facilitation
C. Bystander apathy
D. Equity theory - If a person suffering from Jerusalem Syndrome because a public danger, where would he be treated?
A. In the Jerusalem lock – up
B. Kfar Shaul Mental Health Center
C. He would be taken straight to the airport and deported
D. Hadassah Medical Center - Phobias are now sometimes treated with benzodiazepines (rather than barbiturates). Which of the following is not a side – effect of taking benzodiazepines?
A. Ataxia
B. Wakefulness
C. Drowsiness
D. confusion - Which of the following is one reason given that more women than men are treated for psychological problems?
A. Women are subject to greater stress than man
B. As a result of cultural norms, women may be more willing to admit distress
C. Some forms of mental disorders are sex – linked recessive
D. developmental tasks required of women are far more difficult than those required for man - In an experiment, the control group should be treated in the same way as the experimental group except for ____________?
A. completing pretest measures
B. completing posts-test measures
C. receiving different levels of the independent variable
D. receiving different levels of the confounding variable - In the simplest experiment, the two groups of subjects are treated exactly alike except for the ______________ variable.
A. independent
B. dependent
C. extraneous
D. hypothetical theory formulation - The control group and the experimental group in an experiment are treated exactly the same except for the:
A. dependent variable
B. independent variable
C. extraneous variables
D. replication variables - ADHD in children is most often treated with the drug:
A. Haldol
B. Thorazine
C. Ritalin
D. Valium - Which of these statements is not true of phobias?
A. a phobia is an irrational fear of an object or a situation
B. It is possible to fear something that poses no real threat to the individual
C. Phobias are a world – wide phenomenon
D. All phobias are untreatable
