Donna has borderline personality disorder. She is in therapy, but progress is slow. One problem is that some days she thinks her therapist is the most wonderful person in the world. On other days, she thinks he is worthless and untrustworthy
This type of thinking is called
a. dialectical.
b. splitting.
c. entitlement.
d. psychopathological.
b. splitting.
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a. Socrates b. Plato c. Aristotle d. Rosseau e. Confucius
____ is an influence of recent experience on behavior, even if one does not recognize that influence.
A. Priming B. Explicit memory C. Procedural memory D. Implicit memory
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a. ?sublimation b. ?rationalization c. ?regression d. ?projection
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A. great disruption it has on their overall normative development. B. fact that it tends to increase the negative feelings they have toward their deceased sibling. C. lack of emotional trauma. D. reluctance to discuss their grief.