Brihana lacks self-control and often finds herself in dangerous situations. She can have intense and unpredictable bursts of emotion. She has even hurt herself by cutting. You would be accurate if you suggested that Brihana shows the characteristics of:
A. histrionic personality disorder
B. schizotypal personality disorder
C. dependent personality disorder
D. borderline personality disorder
Answer: D
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a. share an avoidant attachment relationship. b. share an anxious-ambivalent attachment relationship. c. share a secure attachment relationship. d. have not yet developed an attachment relationship.
Walter is a regular cocaine user. As a result of this use, he is likely to experience
a. a decrease in the oxygen supply to his heart. b. both physiological and psychological dependence. c. tremors, nausea, convulsions, and delusions if he overdoses d. all of these.
Asch's laboratory studies involving conformity in people's judgments of the lengths of lines appear to have been low in ______ but very high in _______
A) mundane realism; experimental realism B) experimental realism; mundane realism C) internal validity; external validity D) objective realism; subjective realism
Dissociative _____ is a complete or partial loss of memory for personal information and past experience
a) identity disorder b) psychosis c) amnesia d) depersonalization