What does the psychoticism factor measure?
What will be an ideal response?
Although people diagnosed with psychoses do tend to score high on this supertrait, so do creative non-psychotic individuals. Instead of measuring a clinical condition, the psychoticism factor seems to more broadly reflect traits often associated with nonconformity or social deviance. Most of the characteristics it reflects have negative connotations such as aggressive, cold, egocentric, impersonal, impulsive, antisocial, and unempathic, although at least a few have positive or neutral connotations such as creative and tough-minded. The social deviancy observed in many high psychoticism individuals may have biological underpinnings reflected in lower cortical arousal since people scoring high in psychoticism tend to show a higher interest in violent material and more quickly desensitize to violent imagery.
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A. Physicians and the clergy B. Physicians and psychiatrists C. The clergy and psychiatric social workers D. Psychiatrists and the clergy
What memory task would a typical patient with Korsakoff's syndrome be able to do without difficulty?
a. recalling the temporal order of events b. remembering someone he or she met in the past week c. an implicit memory task d. an explicit memory task
Death rates are low in adolescents, but they are nearly twice as great for female adolescents as male adolescents.
Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)
Kosslyn interpreted the results of his research on imagery (such as the island experiment) as supporting the idea that the mechanism responsible for imagery involves ___________ representations.
A. epiphenomenal B. propositional C. spatial D. unilateral