After Participants in One Study Were Informed That a Videotaped

question 159

Multiple Choice

After participants in one study were informed that a videotaped interviewee was a psychiatric patient, they characterized the person with phrases such as "a passive, dependent type" and "frightened of his own aggressive impulses." This study best illustrated the

• A) dangers of dissociative identity disorder.
• B) problem with the medical model.
• C) biasing power of diagnostic labels.
• D) shortcomings of the social-cognitive perspective.

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