An important use of DSM-IV-TR includes being a(n)
a. guide to help psychologists to correctly identify mental disorders and select the best therapy.
b. statistical encyclopedia of the incidence of various forms of violent crime committed by patients with mental disorders.
c. accurate guide used by judges and juries in determining the legal definition of insanity.
d. guide to current research articles in the field of psychopathology.
a. guide to help psychologists to correctly identify mental disorders and select the best therapy.
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Which of the following dimensions of attitudes are MOST likely to be correlated?
a. strength and ambivalence b. accessibility and strength c. accessibility and ambivalence d. distinctiveness and ambivalence
Compared to people from collectivist cultures, people from individualistic cultures are
a. less likely to make the fundamental attribution error. b. more likely to make situational attributions when explaining the behavior of others. c. less likely to show a self-serving bias. d. more likely to show a self-serving bias. e. more likely to attribute success to luck.
The sexual disorders that involve intense sexual urges regarding situations, objects, or people that are not part of the usual arousal pattern leading to reciprocal and affectionate sexual activity are called ____
a. gender dysphoria b. paraphilias c. dyspareunia d. psychosexual disorders
Regarding dissociative identity disorders, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. A history of heavy drug use as teenagers was found in over 95 percent of persons whose personalities later split into multiple identities during adulthood. b. The goal of therapy is integration and fusion of the identities into a single, balanced personality. c. Therapy for dissociative identity disorders makes use of hypnosis, which allows contact with the various personality states. d. A majority of psychologists continue to believe that multiple identity is a real, but rare problem.