A novelist wants to write a book centered on a character described as suspicious and on guard all of the time. The character has difficult relationships with friends and relatives as a result of a distrustful nature, he overreacts to minor events that may
lead to aggression, and he is delusional. What advice would you give to the novelist?
a. The symptoms that you describe are rarely seen in adults in this country.
b. You have accurately described paranoid personality disorder, except that the disorder does not involve delusions.
c. Your description does not seem to meet the criteria of any of the disorders found in DSM.
d. You have captured the essence of a series of disorders that tend to be comorbid and untreatable.
Answer: b.
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a. as they play with objects, they spontaneously group objects they are playing with into categories based on type of object (animal, vehicle, furniture) or color b. the responded to birds and airplanes that looked similar as if they belonged in different categories, unlike younger children c. they could use objects appropriately based on their category (such as giving a drink to a toy rabbit and using a key on a toy truck, but not vice versa) d. verbally labeling objects with a category name leads 9- to 11-month-olds to treat them as belonging to a different category than objects that are verbally labeled with a different category name
What is the single best research setting?
a. a laboratory setting because we can control interference from the environment b. naturalistic setting as much of real life cannot be duplicated in the laboratory c. case study in a natural environment—much information about an individual is obtained d. each has advantages and disadvantages; therefore, there is no one best setting