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Sociology of Health Healing and Illness 7th Edition Weiss Test Bank
Sociology of Health Healing and Illness 7th Edition Weiss Test Bank
6. The history of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) suggests that
a. those working in mental health generally agree on the causes of mental illness.
b. our system of psychiatric diagnoses has resulted in part from a series of political fights.
c. those working in the mental health field generally agree on how to treat the different mental illnesses.
d. psychiatrists generally agree on how to treat homosexuality.
e. the DSM is now highly valid.
ANSWER: b
REFERENCES: p. 156
7. Research using the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) suggests that
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.
ANSWER: c
REFERENCES: p. 156
8. 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
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.
ANSWER: a
REFERENCES: p. 157
13. According to Goffman, persons who are treated in large mental hospitals typically experience
a. cure.
b. remission.
c. recurrences of their illness.
d. mortification.
e. deinstitutionalization.
ANSWER: d
REFERENCES: p. 162
17. Approximately what percent of U.S. adults experience a diagnosable mental illness in a typical year?
a. 5 percent
b. 10 percent
c. 30 percent
d. 50 percent
e. 70 percent
ANSWER: c
REFERENCES: pp. 148 and 168
19. Social stress is most likely to lead to mental illness if the stress
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.
ANSWER: a
REFERENCES: p. 149
21. A sociologist who studies how being labeled as mentally ill affects individuals’ views of themselves is using
22. A person who drinks alcohol to blot out socially unacceptable feelings of anger is engaging in
a. snowballing.
b. symbolic interactionism.
c. feeling work.
d. labeling.
e. accommodation.
ANSWER: c
REFERENCES: pp. 168-169
23. Typically, persons who exhibit behavior that suggests mental illness
a. are quickly labeled as mentally ill by their families.
b. seek treatment within one year.
c. become homeless within one year.
d. are only reluctantly labeled mentally ill by their families.
e. should be classified as schizophrenic.
ANSWER: d
REFERENCES: pp. 169-170
26. Critique the medical model of mental illness, using evidence from the textbook.
ANSWER: Answers May Vary
27. Explain the link between stress and mental illness, and then use that explanation to explain class, gender, and race
differences in mental illness.
ANSWER: Answers May Vary
28. How are residential colleges similar to and different from total institutions?
ANSWER: Answers May Vary
29. How do society’s views on, and responses to, mental illness resemble those of past centuries? How do they differ?
ANSWER: Answers May Vary