People Find Adam Difficult to Be Around

question 76

Multiple Choice

People find Adam difficult to be around. His behavior is unpredictable and erratic but most often is annoying to others. He doesn't seem to learn from his bad experiences, instead he keeps repeating the same mistakes over and over. His family says Adam has been like this since at least junior high school. Adam most likely has ________

• A) a mood disorder.
• B) an anxiety disorder.
• C) a dissociative disorder.
• D) a personality disorder.

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Definitions:

Truth-Wins Rule

A consensus-reaching technique wherein a group adopts the correct or most accurate answer once a sufficient number of members recognize its validity.

Conjunctive Task Solutions

Solutions to problems that require the coordination and collective effort of all group members, where the performance of the group is determined by its weakest link.

Steiner's Law

A principle in social psychology that outlines how group productivity is determined by the sum of individual members' contributions, subject to the effects of coordination and motivation.

Group Productivity

Denotes the collective output or accomplishment of a group, often measured in terms of quantity, quality, and efficiency of work produced.