Lesson 3.1.1

3.1.1 The historical context of mental health Quiz: OCR Psychology, Unit 3

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The 20 questions

  1. Which historical era viewed mental illness primarily as divine punishment or demonic possession?

    • Renaissance period
    • Victorian era
    • Ancient world
    • Enlightenment period

  2. Who famously advocated for moral treatment of the insane at the York Retreat?

    • Sigmund Freud
    • William Tuke
    • Philippe Pinel
    • Emil Kraepelin

  3. Which French physician unchained patients at the Bicêtre hospital in Paris?

    • Thomas Szasz
    • Dorothea Dix
    • Philippe Pinel
    • William Tuke

  4. Which American activist campaigned tirelessly for the reform of mental asylums in the 19th century?

    • Clara Barton
    • Elizabeth Blackwell
    • Dorothea Dix
    • Mary Ainsworth

  5. What movement emerged in the 1960s aiming to treat psychiatric patients in community settings?

    • Eugenics movement
    • Deinstitutionalisation
    • Psychoanalysis
    • Asylum reform

  6. What major technological advancement enabled the large-scale closure of psychiatric hospitals from the 1950s?

    • Lobotomy procedures
    • Psychotherapy sessions
    • Antipsychotic medication
    • Electroconvulsive therapy

  7. Which classification system was first published by Emil Kraepelin to categorise distinct mental disorders?

    • Biopsychosocial model
    • Medical model
    • Moral treatment
    • Social norm model

  8. What term describes judging mental health based on statistical infrequency within a given population?

    • Failure to function
    • Deviation from norms
    • Statistical infrequency
    • Deviation from ideals

  9. A patient hears voices due to ancient spirits; historically, which treatment might they have received?

    • Token economy
    • Systematic desensitisation
    • Trephining
    • Cognitive therapy

  10. If a Victorian asylum kept patients in squalor for social control, which historical approach does this reflect?

    • Community care
    • Institutionalisation
    • Moral treatment
    • Deinstitutionalisation

  11. What process occurs when psychiatric hospitals close to open supported living houses?

    • Institutionalisation
    • Care in the community
    • De-escalation
    • Medicalisation

  12. Label the historical era that used bloodletting and purging based on the four bodily humours.

    • Enlightenment era
    • Ancient Greece
    • Post-war period
    • Modern era

  13. Which critic argued mental illness is a myth and merely problems in living?

    • David Rosenhan
    • Carl Rogers
    • Thomas Szasz
    • Aaron Beck

  14. What year was David Rosenhan's famous 'Sane in Insane Places' study published?

    • 1983
    • 1973
    • 1953
    • 1963

  15. Which diagnostic tool was heavily criticised by Rosenhan for producing invalid psychiatric labels?

    • DSM-II
    • ICD-11
    • DSM-5
    • BPS guidelines

  16. What historical practice involved surgically severing connections in the brain's prefrontal cortex?

    • Frontal lobotomy
    • Electroconvulsive therapy
    • Hydrotherapy
    • Insulin coma therapy

  17. Which early Greek physician proposed that mental disorders arise from brain dysfunction rather than gods?

    • Aristotle
    • Plato
    • Socrates
    • Hippocrates

  18. What term describes society defining mental illness based on the violation of unwritten social rules?

    • Social norms
    • Functional adequacy
    • Statistical norms
    • Ideal mental health

  19. Which Greek physician classified mental disorders into mania, melancholia, and phrenitis using natural causes?

    • Galen
    • Hippocrates
    • Socrates
    • Aristotle

  20. Which landmark 1973 study by David Rosenhan demonstrated the invalidity of psychiatric diagnoses?

    • Sane in Insane Places
    • Asch Conformity
    • Little Albert
    • The Stanford Prison Experiment

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