Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Before the introduction of the medical model of psychological disorders, people believed mental illness was a result of possession by demons or a punishment from God for their wrongdoings.
2. The presence or absence of a diathesis determines if symptoms of a disease will manifest.
3. One reason the RDoC was created was in response to the criticism that the biopsychosocial factors that appear to cause psychopathology do not map neatly onto individual DSM diagnoses.
4. A new system called the Research Domain Criteria Project (RDoC) is an initiative that aims to guide the classification and understanding of mental disorders by revealing the basic processes that give rise to them.
5. The long-term goal of the RDoC is to better understand which abnormalities cause different disorders and to classify disorders based on those underlying causes, rather than on observed symptoms, which will bring the study of mental disorders in line with the study of other medical disorders.
1. TRUE
2. FALSE
3. TRUE
4. TRUE
5. TRUE
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