Author Question: Pre-modern societies were better able than modern societies to cope informally with individuals who ... (Read 87 times)

tuffie · **on:** Aug 23, 2018

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.

Question 2

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.