A group of diagnostic clinicians can't agree with each other on appropriate personality disorder diagnoses for several clients. In fact, it is obvious that, in many cases, they have inaccurately made their diagnoses. Assuming they are competent clinicians, this situation would indicate the DSM-5 categories for personality disorder are:
A. reliable, but not valid
B. neither reliable nor valid
C. both reliable and valid
D. not reliable, but valid
Answer: B. neither reliable nor valid
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A. stimulus discrimination. B. higher-order conditioning. C. stimulus generalization. D. avoidance conditioning.
Research with the five-factor model of personality has indicated
a. a strong degree of heritability for each of the five factors. b. that there is an optimal level of brain activity for each factor. c. that they are essentially identical to Allport's cardinal traits. d. that each factor is strongly situation-specific. e. that human personality is much too complex to simplify into only five factors.