Personality traits may have crystallized into a personality disorder when the individual

a. cannot adapt his or her characteristic approach to the world when necessary.
b. has maladaptive behavior but can alter it when needed.
c. changes behavior to adapt to varying settings and situations.
d. has transient episodes of eccentric behavior.

Ans: a. cannot adapt his or her characteristic approach to the world when necessary.

Psychology

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a) other people's expectations of us. b) our drives and needs. c) a perception of consistency in our own behavior. d) an idealized concept of self.

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The concept of theory of mind is relevant to the topic of reading because:

a. people need to think about how to read. b. children have great trouble reading because they don't know how their mind works when they first begin to read. c. adults who are illiterate were taught by the whole-word approach to reading. d. readers frequently try to think about the motivations of characters in the stories they read.

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