The DSM-III introduced several important changes to the classification and diagnosis
of psychological disorders including:
a. Explicit diagnostic criteria and a multiaxial diagnostic system designed to provide
descriptive rather than theory-based accounts of disorders
b. Explicit diagnostic criteria and a multiaxial diagnostic system designed to provide
psychoanalytically-based accounts of disorders
c. Explicit diagnostic criteria and a multiaxial diagnostic system designed to provide
behaviorally-based accounts of disorders
d. A diagnostic system designed to provide both categorical and dimensional
descriptions of disorders
e. A diagnostic system designed to provide both categorical and dimensional criteria
to identify and classify disorders
A
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Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).
The U.S. Congress designated the 1990s as the decade of
a) the mind. b) the brain. c) cognitive processes. d) psychological research.