Experimental studies involvingpersons with antisocial personalitydisorders have revealed
that these people
a. show less reactivity in emotional situations.
b. seek out the company of other psychopaths.
c. have overaroused nervous systems.
d. have sustained damaged to the prefrontal cortex, which explains their lack of planning and
foresight.
e. are affected by social stimuli but not physical stimuli.
a. show less reactivity in emotional situations.
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Emil Kraepelin is credited with __________.
A. discovering that penicillin was an effective treatment for malaria B. determining the cause of senile dementia C. developing the first classification system for mental disorders D. writing the first edition of the DSM
In Thompson and Pledger's (1993) study of the general public's knowledge of
medical terms, they found that a. 90% of the patients were able to define all words correctly b. only 10 participants could define all 50 of the words c. there was not a single word that all participants could correctly define d. both a and b e. both b and c