Most biomedical therapies conceive of mental disorders as
a. having psychological origins.
b. originating in childhood experiences.
c. problems in the brain.
d. being less important than medical illnesses.
Answer: c. problems in the brain.
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a) the role that emotion plays in cognition. b) the fact that we have evolved particular cognitive tendencies and abilities. c) the role that the body plays in thinking. d) the knowledge we have about our own cognitive processes.
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