Which of the following is essential for a patient with a personality disorder to make healthy changes in behavior?
a. attend weekly therapy sessions for the rest of his life.
b. expect rapid improvement in social interactions
c. understand the perspective of other people whom his disorder affects adversely
d. be compliant with the medication regimen that is the basis of medical intervention
Ans: c. understand the perspective of other people whom his disorder affects adversely
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On a dichotic listening task,
a. people can accurately monitor two tasks at the same time. b. people can accurately monitor two tasks at the same time, except when the tasks are both auditory. c. people notice little about the message that they are supposed to ignore. d. experts tend to process the message that they are supposed to ignore, but novices don't process an irrelevant message.
Magda has learned to decrease her fear of riding in crowded elevators by associating a state of relaxation with a hierarchy of fear-provoking stimuli. This technique is known as
a. flooding b. multimodal therapy c. cognitive restructuring d. desensitization