The Gender Difference in the Diagnosis of Histrionic Personality Disorder

question 33

Multiple Choice

The gender difference in the diagnosis of histrionic personality disorder has been criticized for

• A)reflecting society's inherent bias.
• B)not reflecting enough of the differences between men and women.
• C)being psychologists' plot to undermine their female colleagues.
• D)All of these are correct

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Definitions:

Initiative Versus Guilt

Erikson's third stage of psychosocial development, where children begin to assert control and power over their environment through directed play and other activities.

Cognitive Development

The progression of learning and development of intelligence, conscious thought, and problem-solving ability that occurs from infancy through adulthood.

Conservation Problems

Cognitive tasks that assess the understanding that quantity remains the same despite changes in shape or appearance, often used in developmental psychology.

Hierarchical Classification

A system of organization where entities are arranged in a ranked or graded order, often used in biological taxonomy to classify living organisms into successively more inclusive groups.