The first categorization of mental disorders developed out of:
A) Kraepelin's realization that not all people with abnormal behavior have similar symptoms
B) the statistical finding that mental disorders involve separate traits and behaviors
C) behaviorist treatments that applied to only a few categories of disorder
D) brain imaging studies, which revealed that disorders had unique biological correlates

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Kraepelin, a German psychiatrist, was one of the first to differentiate between different types of mental disorders based on distinct symptoms, leading to the development of the first diagnostic classification system.

The First Categorization of Mental Disorders Developed Out Of