The theory that personality disorders are a form of vulnerability to symptom disorders suggests that a person with avoidant personality disorder may be at higher risk for

a) schizophrenia.
b) alcohol abuse.
c) social phobia.
d) bipolar disorder.


c

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Wilhelm Wundt is known for

a. initiating the movement to make psychology a science. b. developing eight guidelines for critical thinking. c. establishing phrenology as a science. d. training doctors to treat mental illness.

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Research suggests that the most effective conversations about forgiveness contain two elements—an explicit statement of your thoughts or feelings, and a discussion of the implications of the transgression and the future of the relationship.

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In an experiment by Tversky and Kahneman (1973), subjects were given a description of a young man, Steve, who closely resembles a typical librarian, and were told that the description was drawn from a pool of 100 men, 10 of whom were librarians. Subjects assumed that Steve is a librarian. This is an example of:

a. the availability heuristic b. the representativeness heuristic c. an illusory correlation d. the false consensus effect e. the simulation heuristic

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Moscovici found that ___ changed when they faced a minority who was mistaken.

a.  no one   b.  about 90% of the subjects   c.  about 8% of the subjects   d.  approximately 1/3 of the subjects

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