Some have proposed that the personality disorders be replaced or supplemented by a dimensional model in which individuals would be rated on a series of personality dimensions as well as a categorical diagnosis. It is believed that this would have advantages over a purely categorical system. Which of the following would be such an advantage?

a. It would retain more information about each

individual.
b. It would be more flexible.
c. It would avoid arbitrary decisions involved in assignment to a diagnostic category.
d. All of the above


d

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Eysenck believed that personality traits can be derived from:

a. case histories. c. factor analysis. b. dream analysis. d. performance projective tests.

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If the null hypothesis is true and we run the Mann-Whitney test on our data, the expectation is that

a. the difference scores will all be zero. b. the test will be significant. c. the sum of the ranks in the two groups will be approximately equal (assuming equal sample sizes). d. the number of subjects in each group will be about the same.

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How many of the following (shame, guilt, anxiety, fear of being caught) would be considered emotions related to moral affect?

a. 1 b. 2 c. 3 d. 4

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Social cognition refers to perception of the social world

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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