Rick often has peculiar thoughts and behaviors that are not based in reality. He also has poor interpersonal relationships. What personality type does Rick have?
a. Borderline personality disorder
b. Antisocial personality disorder
c. Schizotypal personality disorder
d. Obsessive compulsive
Ans: c. Schizotypal personality disorder
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a. probably agrees with the behavioral perspective b. takes a diathesis-stress approach to illness anxiety disorder c. is discussing primary and secondary gain d. probably rejects the psychoanalytic perspective
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a. true to outside temperatures. b. produced by the warm receptors only. c. relative to the skin temperature. d. not noticeable below 45 degrees Celsius.
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