A Novelist Wants to Write a Book Centered on a Character

question 20

Multiple Choice

A novelist wants to write a book centered on a character described as suspicious and on guard all of the time. He has difficult relationships with friends and relatives as a result of distrustful nature, overreacts to minor events that may lead to aggression, and is delusional. What advice would you give to the novelist?

• A) The symptoms that you describe are rarely seen in adults in this country.
• B) You have captured the paranoid personality disorder except they do not have delusions.
• C) Your description does not seem to meet the criteria of any of the disorders found in the DSM.
• D) You have captured the essence of a series of disorders that tend to be comorbid and untreatable.

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Definitions:

Interval Scale

A type of measurement scale that allows for the ranking of items based on quantifiable intervals or differences between them, without a true zero point.

Celsius

A scale of temperature in which water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100 degrees under standard conditions.

Unobtrusive Measures

Methods of collecting data that do not interfere with the subjects being studied.

Reactivity

Reactivity is the tendency of people to alter their performance or behavior due to the awareness that they are being observed.