The Classification of Abnormal Behavior

摘要: From the beginnings of life, as organisms attempt to understand their environment, they seek organize a vast array incoming stimuli. The recognition similarities and ordering objects into sets on basis relationships are primordial classificatory abilities that begin at crude level but grow ever more discriminating organism matures. Even before advent Homo sapiens, classification ability must have been component fitness in biological evolution (Sokal, 1974). acquiring language by humans is clearly most sophisticated example this phenomenon nature, for it through learning words we able select, evaluate, categorize much information bombards us everyday life. In short, human beings, classification; sound or combination sounds (or its representation print) communicates specific meaning (Davies, 1970). Because possess type communication, discriminate multitude stimuli categories allow process, store, act additional no other can approach.