Question 1

The Rosenhan study suggests that

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A)  mental health workers cannot always tell whether someone needs psychiatric care.
B)  definitions of mental illness vary cross-culturally.
C)  mental illness is primarily caused by organic problems.
D)  homosexuality should not be considered a mental illness.
E)  psychiatrists are less well trained than psychologists.

Question 2

Freud's ideas about human nature and mental illness​

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A)  continue to permeate American culture.
B)  have received strong support from recent research.
C)  reflected a belief in the inherent superiority of females.
D)  reflected his support for the nascent feminist movement.
E)  have been repudiated by those who take a biological approach to psychiatry.

Question 3

Once an individual seeks treatment for psychiatric problems, doctors typically​

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A)  remedicalize the journals they use.
B)  assume that the individual has a mental illness.
C)  work to reduce the stigma of mental illness.
D)  work to identify the individuals' cultural background and its impact on treatment.
E)  seek to understand the social context in which the individual's symptoms or problems emerged. B

Question 4

According to Goffman, persons who are treated in large mental hospitals typically experience

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A)  cure.
B)  remission.
C)  recurrences of their illness.
D)  mortification.
E)  deinstitutionalization.

Question 5

Which of the following statements is true?

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A)  Definitions of what constitutes mental illness have changed over time.
B)  Definitions of what constitutes mental illness vary from social group to social group.
C)  Socially powerful groups are more able to enforce their definitions of what constitutes mental illness than are socially powerless groups.
D)  all of the above
E)  a and b only

Question 6

Explain the link between stress and mental illness, and then use that explanation to explain class, gender, and race differences in mental illness.

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Question 7

Which of the following played a main role in deinstitutionalization?

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A)  the development of new psychoactive drugs for treating mental illness
B)  public horror at the maltreatment of mentally ill persons
C)  financial changes in insurance and in federal funding
D)  the overcrowding of state mental hospitals
E)  the feminization of aging

Question 8

Research using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM)  suggests that

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A)  the DSM has a high degree of reliability.
B)  clinicians are able to arrive at consistent diagnoses.
C)  different clinicians may diagnose the same patient differently.
D)  politics are not involved in the construction of diagnostic categories.
E)  diagnostic categories are stable over time.

Question 9

A person who drinks alcohol to blot out socially unacceptable feelings of anger is engaging in

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A)  snowballing.
B)  symbolic interactionism.
C)  feeling work.
D)  labeling.
E)  accommodation.

Question 10

By the end of the nineteenth century,

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A)  custodial care had largely replaced moral treatment.
B)  psychoanalysis had largely replaced moral treatment.
C)  moral treatment had become the dominant form of therapy in mental hospitals.
D)  care of the mentally ill had shifted from large mental hospitals to small ones.
E)  almshouses had become the most common sites for care of the mentally ill.

Question 11

The medical model of mental illness assumes that

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A)  objectively measurable conditions define mental illness.
B)  mental illness stems largely or solely from something within individual psychology or biology.
C)  treatment sometimes can pose serious risks.
D)  all of the above
E)  a and b only

Question 12

Most psychiatrists now primarily treat patients with

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A)  drugs.
B)  psychotherapy.
C)  psychoanalysis.
D)  electroshock therapy.
E)  none of the above

Question 13

Social stress is most likely to lead to mental illness if the stress

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A)  is chronic.
B)  is an acute trauma.
C)  is linked to a life event, rather than an ongoing situation.
D)  is treated with antidepressants.
E)  is treated with antipsychotics. A

Question 14

Which of the following is true?

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A)  Research strongly indicates that most mental illness stems from biological causes.
B)  Research strongly indicates that depression stems from biological causes.
C)  Psychiatrists typically believe that mental illness stems from biological causes.
D)  Concern about liability has led some television stations to refuse to run advertisements for drugs for depression.
E)  Concern about liability has led some pharmaceutical companies to stop promoting drugs for treating mental illness.

Question 15

Which of the following are total institutions?

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A)  public elementary schools
B)  police departments
C)  prisons
D)  colleges
E)  churches

Question 16

Following the development of capitalism,

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A)  religious control over persons we might now label mentally ill declined.
B)  family networks strengthened and so families became better able to care at home for those labelled mentally ill.
C)  the market broadened, making it easier for those we might label mentally ill to find productive work.
D)  the rise of Christianity led to more people being labelled as mentally ill.
E)  none of the above

Question 17

Approximately what percent of U.S. adults experience a diagnosable mental illness in a typical year?

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A)  5 percent
B)  10 percent
C)  30 percent
D)  50 percent
E)  70 percent C

Question 18

Pre-modern societies were better able than modern societies to cope informally with individuals who acted in unacceptable and incomprehensible ways because pre-modern societies

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A)  could offer those individuals acceptable, low-level roles.
B)  could often cure illness through prayer.
C)  generated little stress.
D)  killed such individuals before puberty.
E)  developed religious institutions to control such individuals.

Question 19

Critique the medical model of mental illness, using evidence from the textbook.

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Question 20

A sociologist who studies how being labeled as mentally ill affects individuals' views of themselves is using

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A)  functionalist theory.
B)  role theory.
C)  life events theory.
D)  symbolic interactionism theory.
E)  aligning theory.

Exam 7: The Sociology of Mental Illness

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