People Use Various Cognitive Tactics to Maintain a Close Relationship

question 56

Multiple Choice

People use various cognitive tactics to maintain a close relationship.They may

• A) play up their partner's virtues and play down their faults
• B) work to match their view that their partner is actually close to ideal
• C) expect less from their partner
• D) all of the above

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Definitions:

Researchers

Individuals who conduct systematic investigations to establish facts or principles or to collect information on a subject.

Personality Disorders

A category of mental health disorders characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, exhibited across many contexts and deviating from those accepted by the individual's culture.

Empirically

Based on, concerned with, or verifiable by observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.

MMPI

The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory, a standardized psychometric test used to identify personality and psychological disorders.