Which of the following describes personality disorders?
a) long-standing, inflexible, and maladaptive patterns of behaving and relating to others
b) having one or more personalities within one individual
c) an identity crisis that has not been resolved by adulthood
d) thinking one is someone else, usually a famous person
Answer: a
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a. Application and control b. Construction and revision c. Understanding and prediction d. Measurement and description
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A. outer ear B. inner ear C. middle ear D. ear canal
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a. the internal factors that lead people to act consistently across various situations b. the ways in which physical or genetic factors influence and determine behavior c. how people relate to each other and influence each other d. how behavior and mental processes change over a lifetime
The purpose of a control group is to
A. have a group with the greatest control over effects of the experiment. B. have a group that counteracts the effects of the independent variable on the experimental group. C. have a comparison group that does not undergo any experimental procedures. D. have a comparison group that is exposed to everything except the independent variable.