The TV show Saturday Night Live once featured a skit involving an "Anal Retentive Carpenter," who had to keep all his tools and work materials in just the "right" places, arranged "just so." He was very anxious any time tools and materials were not just as he wanted them. The MOST appropriate diagnosis for the carpenter would be:
A) obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
B) borderline personality disorder.
C) histrionic personality disorder.
D) impulse-control personality disorder.
Answer: A) obsessive-compulsive personality disorder.
Psychology
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a. the Ben Franklin effect b. cognitive dissonance c. the hypocrisy-induction paradigm d. justification of effort
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