A research psychologist wants to study people with a particular personality disorder. She places advertisements in newspapers that ask, "Are you adventurous? Do you lead an exciting, impulsive life? If you are the kind of person who'd do almost anything for a dare, send your name..." The researcher was interested in people with which personality disorder?
a. antisocial c. borderline
b. schizotypal d. intermittent explosive
A
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Which of the following is a criticism of Abraham Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
a) The highest level has never been attained. b) Self-actualization is actually a biological drive. c) The hierarchy does not have any focus on social needs. d) There is a lack of scientific support.
Experimenters using verbal reports as research tools
a. can rely on them as the sole dependent measure in an experiment. b. should continue to do so since verbal reports are perfectly correlated with performance. c. may find the discrepancies between verbal reports and behavioral measures to be interesting in and of themselves. d. find few discrepancies between people's verbal reports and more objective behavioral measures of cognitive processes.
Most adolescents in most countries today view the period of adolescence as
a. a time of great disruption. b. a troublesome and tumultuous period in their lives c. a time when they must rebel against their parents to achieve adult psychological well-being. d. basically a healthy, happy, and optimistic time.
Which brain recording technique(s) is (are) often limited to laboratory animals because it requires insertion of a recording needle into the brain?
A. PET scan B. EEG/ERP C. fMRI D. single-cell recording