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DrJohns Researched Mental Disorders Using Laboratory Methods

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Dr.Johns researched mental disorders using laboratory methods.He stressed the importance of directly observable behaviors and the conditions or stimuli that evoked, reinforced, or extinguished them.Dr.Johns adhered to which early viewpoint of mental illness?


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Fluid Intelligence

The capacity to think logically and solve problems in novel situations, independent of acquired knowledge.

Inductive Reasoning

A method of reasoning in which conclusions are drawn from a set of observations, making broad generalizations from specific instances.

Deviation IQ

A measure of an individual's intelligence expressed as a score derived from standardized tests, adjusted for the person's age.

Normal Distribution

A bell-shaped curve that represents the spread of a variable in a way that most occurrences take place around the central peak and the probabilities for values further away from the mean taper off equally in both directions.

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