During your professor's lecture on the history of mental illness, you learned that in the past there were disorders called drapetomania, nymphomania, and anarchia, which do not exist today. From this lecture, you have learned that what is often considered normal or abnormal depends on
a. statistical deviations.
b. cultural disapproval.
c. the level of functioning.
d. subjective discomfort.
ANSWER: b
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