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LCritchfi

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on: Jun 22, 2018
In some non-Western societies today, headaches, depression, and seizures are all believed to be caused by offended ancestral spirits or by evil forces that possess the sufferer. This type of explanation is called ____.
 
  a. naturalism
 b. demonology
  c. trephining
 d. exorcism

Question 2

Professor Martin, a historian who studies ancient cultures, would likely suggest that prehistoric societies attributed mental illness to ____.
 
  a. social stressors
 b. sorcery
 c. chemical imbalance
 d. biological disequilibrium


zogaridan

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Reply #1 on: Jun 22, 2018
Answer to Question 1

b

Answer to Question 2

b


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