Edgar constantly seeks attention from everyone, including strangers, by dramatizing his every emotion and action. Edgar would be described as having which type of personality disorder?
a. dependent
b. histrionic
c. obsessive-compulsive
d. schizoid
B
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a. when the two patterns were in different locations on the screen. b. after the visual information store decayed. c. if the two patterns were separated by more than .5 seconds. d. All of these
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A. higher difficulty for the respondent to guess the "correct" answer. B. higher validity and reliability of projective tests. C. ease with which projective tests can be administered. D. ease of interpreting scores and responses.
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a) severs the communication between hemispheres. b) removes excitatory neurons. c) severs the substantia nigra and basal ganglia. d) removes most of the right hemisphere.
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a. factors. b. loadings. c. extractions. d. analyses.