According to the Medical Model, People Behaving Abnormally _______

question 24

Multiple Choice

According to the medical model, people behaving abnormally _______.

• A) suffer from incurable diseases caused by inherited genetic defects
• B) suffer from the results of early childhood trauma and can be cured with proper behavioral therapies
• C) suffer from mental illnesses that can be classified like physical illnesses, according to their distinctive causes and symptoms
• D) are often unjustly labeled "abnormal" by society because of fears about their "different" behaviors

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Definitions:

Connective

A term used in mathematics and logic to denote operations that combine statements, propositions, or terms.

Conditional Statement

A logical statement that has two parts: a hypothesis (if) and a consequent (then), where the consequent follows logically from the hypothesis.

Antecedent

The condition in a conditional statement that if true, may lead to the consequence or conclusion.

Consequent

The outcome or result in a conditional statement, typically following the word "then" in an "if...then..." structure.