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10 Cards in this Set
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Which of the following occurred in the late twentieth century?
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a movement of the mentally ill from institutions to the community
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What type of prevalence estimate tends to be highest?
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lifetime prevalence
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Ideally, a sample is described as what?
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representative
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Dr. Gordon finds that heroin-addicted adults almost always smoked cigarettes and drank alcohol when they were young adolescents. Knowing this strong association we can conclude that
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there is an association among the variables, but no causal inferences should be drawn.
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All of the following are reasons for the growth of the deinstitutionalization movement EXCEPT
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a desire to involve the family in the care of the mentally ill.
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Phillipe Pinel
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believed that mental patients were ill and needed to be treated as such - with kindness and caring.
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The early asylums
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were primarily warehouses for the mentally ill.
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The insanity associated with general paresis
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results from an infection of the brain.
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What is important to remember about the apparent high lifetime rate of mental disorders?
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Many people with disorders are not seriously affected by them or may have them for only a short time.
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To determine whether certain characteristics are true of people in general, and not just of people with mental disorders, it is important to use
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a control group.
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