Within the category of disruptive, impulse control, and conduct disorders is a disorder in which the person chronically steals items they really don't need. This disorder is called

a. pyromania.
b. kleptomania.
c. trichotillomania.
d. hoarding disorder.


ANSWER: b

Psychology

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Lara's son is constantly ill. While she is by her son's bedside in the hospital, one of the nurses observes Lara injecting her son with a solution that is causing his illness. Lara may have

a. Munchauesen syndrome. b. Munchauesen syndrome by proxy. c. malingering. d. malingering by proxy.

Psychology

Which activity is particularly compatible with the dimensional approach?

a. communicating with other clinicians b. researching the degree of association between two variables c. creating a treatment plan based on all of the child behaviors d. taking the entire package of child behaviors into account when diagnosing

Psychology

Gender equality in physical abilities continues until ____, when boys show increasing gains at large-muscle skills

a. about age six b. about age nine c. puberty d. about age 20

Psychology

In two investigations, African-American children adopted into economically well-off white homes during the first year of life __________

A) scored low on intelligence tests during middle childhood B) attained mean IQs of 110 and 117 by middle childhood C) scored mean IQs of below 95 in middle childhood D) showed gains in IQ in early childhood, which dropped by adolescence

Psychology