Jola Has Developed a Compulsion to Rip Paper

question 351

Multiple Choice

Jola has developed a compulsion to rip paper. She has started saving all of the newspapers just so she will have something to shred. The model of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) that is most likely to explain her behaviour is

• A)executive dysfunction
• B)inhibitory control
• C)modulatory control
• D)environmental

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