Your boss knows that you are enrolled in a psychology class. He tells you that his mother-in-law has suddenly left home and traveled to another state. When the police found her, she had been living in the new town for six months. She had invented a totally false past and had no memory of her real past life. He wants to know what psychological disorder you think she is likely to be diagnosed with?
a. dissociative amnesia c. depersonalization disorder
b. dissociative identity disorder d. dissociative fugue
D
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When a person's pursuit of a goal is blocked or thwarted, the person experiences
a. change. b. pressure. c. frustration. d. conflict.
According to self-perception theory (Bem, 1967), which of the following statements is true?
a. People sometimes infer their attitude from their behavior. b. People always know their attitude. c. People always infer their attitude from their behavior. d. People fail to consider the implications of their attitudes.
The most frequently cited shortcoming of projective personality tests centers on the fact that projective personality tests
A. typically take much longer to administer than objective personality tests. B. cannot be used with child clients. C. rely more heavily on the psychologist’s unique way of scoring and interpreting results than objective tests, which limits their reliability and validity. D. force clients into a restricted range of responses to a greater extent than objective personality tests.
Interested in how people would react to someone who deviates from the norm, Tom has a friend go to class in a bathrobe and then observes how people react to his friend. This is an example of which type of unobtrusive observation?
a. physical traces b. archival records c. simple observations d. contrived observations