What are the three important problems in borderline personality disorder?
What will be an ideal response?
(1) Identity disturbances, reflected in borderline individuals chronic feeling of emptiness or boredom and their intolerance of being alone. These people have a strong need for involvement with others and a reliance on external support for self-definition. (2) Affective disturbance reflected in their intense, inappropriate anger, emotional instability, and unstable interpersonal relationships. Borderline patients often lead stormy, dramatic lives. (3) Impulse disturbance, reflected in their self-damaging acts and impulsive behaviors.
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Regarding vision and hearing, which of the following statements is FALSE?
a. Hearing collects information from all around the body, while vision is limited to stimuli in front of the eyes. b. Sound waves travel as a series of invisible waves of compression and rarefaction. c. Sound can travel in fluids or solids. d. The frequency is the physical "height" of a sound wave and tells how much energy it contains.
After a stroke, a patient appears to understand words spoken to him by nodding or following basic commands, but the patient has lost the ability to produce spoken language. What is a possible explanation for these symptoms?
A) damage to the auditory cortex B) damage to Broca's area C) damage to Wernicke's area D) damage to the motor cortex
Infants learn to control their elbows and knees before their hands and feet, which illustrates the _____ rule.
A) proximodistal B) cephalocaudal C) handedness D) sensorimotor
Research on aggression has shown all of the following EXCEPT:
a. aggression is a basic instinct in humans b. people who are reinforced for aggressive behavior tend to continue to be aggressive c. aggression may be due, in part, to classical conditioning d. individuals can learn to be aggressive by observing aggressive behavior in others