How do adolescents express the personal fable?
A. They believe that they are special, unique, and invulnerable.
B. They experience heightened self-consciousness.
C. They think everyone is looking at them and concerned about what they are doing.
D. They tell lies to others in order to make them think they are better at something than they really are.
Answer: A
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With regard to cause, the majority of individuals with phobias:
A. can remember a traumatic event that triggered their phobia B. cannot remember a traumatic event that triggered their phobia C. have brothers and sisters with similar irrational fears D. have an abnormally high level of a protein in their nervous system
Only one pretest-posttest score pair reflects the treated group in the ____ design
a. RD b. RPD c. NEGD d. ANCOVA
Regarding personality disorders, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Personality disorders are all maladaptive but vary in severity of impairment. b. Personality disorders typically emerge abruptly after a traumatic experience. c. The patterns of personality disorders often begin in adolescence or childhood. d. Schizoid, borderline, and obsessive-compulsive are three types of personality disorders.
Consuming small amounts of alcohol (e.g., ounce/day) during pregnancy
a. causes profound physical birth defects such as phocomelia. b. causes psychosis and severe mental retardation in the mother and also in the baby. c. may produce delayed developmental effects that appear months or years later, during childhood. d. is harmless to development because the dosage is small.