The personality disorder that is characterized by an insistence that things have to be done "the right way" is ________ personality disorder
a. antisocial
b. avoidant
c. paranoid
d. obsessive-compulsive
d
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A standardized measure used to obtain a sample of a person's behavior is called
a. a psychological test. b. a case study. c. an experiment. d. a survey.
Why do neither matched samples nor matched pairs effectively eliminate the possibility of a third-variable correlation?
A) Each technique depends on the other; matched samples are studied first, followed later by matched pairs. B) Both techniques allow us to rule out a particular third variable as a causal agent, but not the possibility of other third variables. C) Both techniques fail to utilize random sampling. D) By eliminating specific third variables, cause-and-effect relations are artificially established.
Summer has anorexia nervosa and is slowly starving herself to death. However, when friends or family tell her to seek professional help, she tells them that she feels fine. She can’t understand why people won’t just leave her alone, and she ignores the increasingly severe physical symptoms that she is experiencing as a result of her drastic weight loss. She also fails to realize that the number of work days she has missed as a result of this is threatening her job security. In this example, Summer’s eating disorder would most likely be considered
a. culturally deviant. b. delusional. c. maladaptive. d. personally distressing
Which of the following statements about depression is TRUE?
a. Over 90 percent of individuals eventually get a diagnosis of major depressive disorder in adolescence. b. Depressed mood includes symptoms such as difficulty sleeping and changes in appetite. c. Rates of depressed mood rise notably from middle childhood to adolescence. d. Girls tend to use distraction more than boys when faced with the beginning of a depressed mood.