According to a Dimensional View of Personality Disorders,each Disorder

question 32

Multiple Choice

According to a dimensional view of personality disorders,each disorder:

• A)is seen as a qualitative break between abnormal and normal personalities.
• B)is seen as a continuum,ranging from normality at one end to severe disability or disturbance at the other.
• C)is bimodal,with both normal and abnormal modes of behaviors.
• D)has a different mean level of abnormality in a given population.

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Definitions:

Hermann Ebbinghaus

A German psychologist who is best known for his research on memory and the forgetting curve.

Sensory Storage

The shortest-term element of memory, which allows the retention of impressions of sensory information after the original stimuli have ended.

Constructive Processing

The way in which our memory reconstructs past events, often influenced by current knowledge, feelings, and thoughts.

Hindsight Bias

The tendency to believe, after learning an outcome, that one would have foreseen it, often referred to as the "I knew it all along" effect.