The Advent of ________ Significantly Reduced the Need for Hospitalization

question 85

Multiple Choice

The advent of ________ significantly reduced the need for hospitalization of sufferers of psychotic symptoms.

• A)Milieu therapies
• B)Psychoanalysis
• C)Antipsychotic medications
• D)Psychosurgery

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Definitions:

Evolutionary

Pertaining to the process by which different kinds of living organisms are thought to have developed and diversified from earlier forms during the history of the earth.

Wilhelm Wundt

A German physiologist and psychologist who is credited with founding experimental psychology as a formal academic discipline.

Functionalism

A theory in psychology that considers mental states and processes to be characterized by their function in the mental system, rather than by their internal constitution.

Information Processing Approach

A psychological framework that considers how humans process, store, and retrieve information, analogous to computer operations.