Psychoanalysis holds that abnormal behavior is the result of __________
a) learning
b) unconscious conflicts
c) biology
d) biochemical imbalances
ANS: B, Unconscious conflicts that are left over from childhood and sometimes repressed are believed to be the cause of mental difficulties in the psychoanalytic model of Freud.
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