Abby Suffers from Extremely Low Self-Confidence and Always Places Everyone

question 580

Multiple Choice

Abby suffers from extremely low self-confidence and always places everyone else's needs ahead of her own. Abby's behavior fits the description of which type of personality disorder?

• A)paranoid
• B)histrionic
• C)schizotypal
• D)dependent

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Definitions:

Misinformation Effect

A phenomenon in which a person's recall of episodic memories becomes less accurate due to post-event information.

Constructive Processing Effect

The psychological phenomenon where memory retrieval involves active reconstruction using both stored information and new input, rather than merely playing back exact copies of stored data.

Constructive Processing

Refers to the way individuals build up memories based on the integration of new information with existing knowledge.

Elaborative Rehearsal

A memory technique that involves thinking about the meaning of the term to be remembered, rather than merely repeating the word to oneself.