Define psychopathy/sociopathy and the overlap with antisocial personality disorder.
What will be an ideal response?
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Psychopathy is not recognized in DSM-5 but its symptoms overlaps with the criteria for antisocial personality disorder. Psychopathy extends the criteria for antisocial personality disorder beyond persistent violations of others' rights and social norms to include traits like egocentricity, shallow emotions, manipulativeness, and lack of empathy, guilt, and remorse.
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a. groupthink. b. passive compliance. c. social loafing. d. mere presence.
According to Holland's theory of personality, people with conventional personality types tend to have high physical strength and low social understanding
Indicate whether this statement is true or false.
A researcher hypothesizes that women will display greater willingness to help than men in certain situations. While conducting the study, she unconsciously encourages women to be helpful by smiling, nodding,
and making more eye contact with them than with men. This is an example of a. demand characteristics b. the reverse-causality problem c. experimenter bias d. low external validity
Which statement concerning memory is true?
A. Explicit memory increases in capacity from infancy through adulthood then declines, while implicit memory capacity peaks in childhood then declines. B. Explicit memory increases in capacity from infancy through adulthood then declines, while implicit memory capacity is constant across the lifespan. C. Implicit memory increases in capacity from infancy through adulthood then declines, while explicit memory capacity peaks in childhood then declines. D. Implicit memory increases in capacity from infancy through adulthood then declines, while explicit memory capacity is constant across the lifespan.