A woman who is unable to achieve orgasm and who lives in a society that discourages female sexuality would probably not be given the DSM diagnosis of female orgasmic disorder because she
a. probably would not experience any distress or impairment.
b. would be distressed but not impaired.
c. would be impaired but not distressed.
d. would probably be both distressed and impaired.
Answer: a.
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Regarding personality disorders, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Personality disorders are all maladaptive but vary in severity of impairment. b. Personality disorders typically emerge abruptly after a traumatic experience. c. The patterns of personality disorders often begin in adolescence or childhood. d. Schizoid, borderline, and obsessive-compulsive are three types of personality disorders.
A source of invalidity that occurs as a result of participants behaving in the manner they think the experimenter expects them to behave is referred to as
a. experimenter bias b. maturation c. selection bias d. good-subject tendency
Who theorized that development is the transfer of libidinal energy from one erogenous zone to another?
a. Hermann Hess c. Sigmund Freud b. Charles Darwin d. Hermann Rorschach
The Kelley (1967) formula for making attributions is so simple it can be used all of the time
a. True b. False