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drink · **on:** Jun 22, 2018

Imagine that half the clerical employees in one building of a school begin to have headaches, feel agitated, scratch themselves furiously, feel numbness in their fingers, and faint. There is no biological explanation. This incident would most likely be seen by psychologists as an example of ____.

a. mass madness
b. exorcism
c. hypnotic susceptibility
d. mesmerism

Question 2

The early Christian Church believed that ____.

a. demons could be released through the cathartic method
b. many behaviors we call mental disorders were the result of supernatural forces
c. science was the most effective way to understand abnormal human behavior
d. abnormal behavior was primarily the result of biological abnormality