Some mental health professionals have argued it is wrong to think of personality disorders as "disorders" in the same sense as a phobia or depression because personality disorders:
a. are more ingrained and less responsive to therapy
b. typically appear and disappear over time
c. are typically easier to treat
d. don't involve behaviors that are statistically or culturally deviant
A
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Which is the most accurate statement about the lifetime prevalence rates for bipolar disorder in the United States?
a. More men than women will be diagnosed with bipolar disorder. b. More women than men will be diagnosed with bipolar disorder. c. Almost twice as many women will receive this diagnosis. d. The rates for this disorder are the same for men and women.
The forgetting of past failures, upsetting childhood events, the names of people you dislike, or appointments you do not want to keep is most likely caused by
a. repression. b. encoding failure. c. retroactive interference. d. proactive interference.
The Flynn effect refers to a long-term secular trend in which
a. later generations have become less religious. b. hereditary influences have become stronger. c. IQs have risen by three points in entire populations over each decade. d. evolution has expanded the brain's performance.
In proactive interference, old memories act to
a. cause us to forget other old memories. b. distort our sensory memory. c. add additional information to permanent external memory. d. reverse the order of items in LTM. e. block our ability to learn new information.