Before leaving his house every day, Wayne has to lock and unlock his door 11 times. If he leaves his house without carrying out this ritual, he will constantly worry about his door being unlocked. Based on his behaviour, Wayne MOST likely has:

A) claustrophobia.
B) agoraphobia.
C) obsessive-compulsive disorder.
D) generalized anxiety disorder.


C) obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Psychology

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Bree is an expert on dinosaurs. Based on this, we would expect that Bree will perform better on a memory test of dinosaurs because she will organize items together in __________ and recall them as __________.

A. short-term memory; words B. categories; chunks C. categories; phonemes D. numerical order; chunks

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In shaping our personalities, Freud stressed the role of

a. self-actualization. b. conditioned responses. c. rewards and punishments. d. unconscious thoughts.

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Who pioneered the classic studies that first made use of nonsense syllables in the study of forgetting and memory?

a. George Miller c. Hermann Ebbinghaus b. Lloyd and Margaret Peterson d. William James

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The _______________ dimension of the NEO PI-R describes the extent to which people are imaginative and curious, or conventional and "down-to-earth."

A) agreeableness B) extraversion C) conscientiousness D) openness

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