What are some of the reasons for the low reliability of personality disorders?
What will be an ideal response?
1) unclear boundary between normal and abnormal personality characteristics; (2) overlap among the personality disorders; (3) overlap between the personality disorders and Axis I disorders; (4) prototypal approach used
by DSM-IV does not require each person with the diagnosis to share the same symptoms.
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Compared to its use in the middle of the last century, today electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) is
a. used far less frequently. b. used far more frequently. c. never used because of its severe side effects. d. only used to treat schizophrenia.
The fact that few people can accurately describe a penny even though they have handled thousands of them is an example of __________
a) encoding failure. b) retroactive interference. c) proactive interference. d) elaboration failure.