Developmental psychopathology is a new approach to abnormal psychology that emphasizes the importance of analyzing behavior in terms of
a. cybernetics.
b. early childhood trauma.
c. learned patterns that are ingrained over time.
d. comparisons of individual behavior to age-based norms.
Answer: d.
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