The growth of a scientific attitude towards psychological disorders in the __________century contributed to the Reform Movement and to increased compassion for people who suffered from these disorders.

eighteenth

The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were known as the Age of Reason and Enlightenment, as the scientific method replaced faith and dogma as ways of understanding abnormal behaviour. The growth of a scientific attitude towards psychological disorders in the eighteenth century contributed to the Reform Movement and to increased compassion for people who suffered from these disorders.