Hello. I am studying abnormal psychology right now. Please answer these three questions and explanations. 1. Dimensional

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Hello. I am studying abnormal psychology right now. Please
answer these three questions and explanations.
1. Dimensional diagnosis involves:
a. Condensing existing disorders into larger and more
comprehensive categories.
b. Organizing disorders into discrete and mutually exclusive
categories.
c. Charting degrees of severity for different symptoms.
d. Taking the dimensions of time, space, and context into
account in making diagnoses.
2. Which of the following is FALSE regarding
comorbidity?
a. It is defined as diagnosing multiple disorders at a time.
b. It illustrates the blurred boundaries between different
mental disorder categories.
c. It poses challenges to validity.
d. It improves interrater reliability.
3. Why do the DSM and ICD use descriptive
psychopathology?
a. It has been proved more effective in treatment than
underlying etiology.
b. We do not know the underlying etiology of DSM and ICD
disorders.
c. Psychologists created the DSM and ICD, not medical doctors,
therefore it makes more sense to use descriptive psychopathology
over etiological explanations.
d. The DSM and ICD do not use descriptive psychopathology.