What is the rationale for diagnosing personality disorders on Axis II with mental retardation?

What will be an ideal response?


These two conditions have in common a lifetime or near-lifetime duration and stability, there are not likely to be periods of improvement or change.

Psychology

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Robert is making a conscious effort for prolonged retention of his homework by processing its meaning fully. This strategy is called ________

a. shallow processing. b. deep processing. c. consolidation. d. confabulation.

Psychology

Discuss how personality variables relate to substance use

What will be an ideal response?

Psychology

When puberty begins, a girl's internal clock signals the pituitary gland to begin secreting the hormones ____

a. FSH and LH c. androgen and progesterone b. estrogen and progesterone d. estrogen and androgen

Psychology

To find cancerous breast tumors that are too small to be felt by hand, the American Cancer Society has been recommending that women over age 40 have

a. Pap smears b. EKGs c. EEGs d. mammograms

Psychology