Alice has been ordered to attend counseling because she assaulted one of her husband's female coworkers. At the first session, she appeared highly guarded and refused to answer many of the questions posed to her
Eventually the therapist determined that Alice believed her husband was having an affair with the woman she attacked. Her husband has denied the affair and he, along with several other people, has repeatedly told Alice that the coworker is happily involved in a long-term relationship with her female partner. In the end, Alice angrily stomped out of the therapy session because she became convinced that the therapist was also attracted to her husband and was "just looking for dirt on her." Alice may have _____ personality disorder.
A) schizotypal
B) schizoid
C) paranoid
D) antisocial
C
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According to Freud, men have a more highly developed sense of ethics and justice than women because:
a. men are naturally more intelligent than women b. they are more capable than women of suppressing their sexual urges c. they identify more closely than women with the values of their mothers d. the resolution of the Oedipal conflict is more definite and clear cut in men than in women
Roberto is an infant who is described as having a difficult temperament. His father is insensitive, coercive, and also difficult in temperament. What can we predict Roberto's developmental outcome will be?
A. Roberto will most likely have behavioral problems and adjustment difficulties that worsen with age, even into early adolescence. B. Roberto will become less extreme in his behavioral tendencies because babies with difficult temperaments become less extreme with age. C. Babies with difficult temperaments tend to be unpredictable, so we cannot accurately predict what Roberto will be like as he ages. D. Roberto will be more likely to get ill as he gets older because difficult temperaments wear down a person's immune system.
What is alpha?
a) A method of expressing differences between groups in a common metric b) The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when that hypothesis is true c) The probability of rejecting the null hypothesis when it is false d) The probability of accepting the null hypothesis when it is false
One of the problems with nonverbal communication is
A. the level of acceptance by other people. B. the imprecision of its messages. C. that it does not communicate emotion. D. that there are very few ways to communicate nonverbally.