Nicole has difficulty maintaining relationships because she goes back and forth from being a best friend to hating people in her life. Her romantic relationships are always characterized by incredible loving passion alternating with episodes of horrible fighting, and sometimes she becomes violent. At times, Nicole becomes so upset that she cuts herself and reports that this makes her feel better
emotionally. Nicole suffers from ________ personality disorder.
a. dependent
b. histrionic
c. borderline
d. narcissistic
c
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b. People differ in the extent to which they have positive or negative personality characteristics. c. There are differences in whether people are or are not motivated to make accurate perceptions of others. d. People differ in their willingness to consider cultural variations that impact how others should be assessed.
According to humanistic psychologists, when your self-image is consistent with what you really think, feel, do, and experience, you
a. have developed a strong conscience and ego ideal. b. are exhibiting psychological androgyny. c. are best able to actualize your potentials. d. are exhibiting conditions of worth.
Damage to the auditory association cortex can
a. induce deafness. b. produce auditory hallucinations similar to those of schizophrenia. c. impair the understanding of sound meaning but not impair hearing. d. produce auditory-visual synesthesia. e. alter the function of the vestibular system.
Young children learning Chinese, Japanese, and Korean acquire __________ more readily than their English-speaking agemates.
A. proper nouns B. verbs C. object nouns D. modifiers