According to the social-cognitive model of narcissistic personality disorder, people with this disorder place a high value on interpersonal interactions because
a) they yearn for interpersonal closeness and warmth.
b) interpersonal interactions are central for reinforcing their self-esteem.
c) they have such high self-esteems.
d) they are very concerned about the quality of their friendships.
Question 2According to the cognitive perspective, social anxiety is related to all of the following EXCEPT:
a) unrealistic negative beliefs about the consequences of their social behaviors.
b) attention to how they are doing in social interactions and their own internal sensations.
c) formation of negative visual images of how others will react to them.
d) all of the above.
Question 3Obtaining a desired response by reinforcing successively closer approximations of the response is called
a) shaping.
b) modeling.
c) operant conditioning.
d) classical conditioning.
Question 4Heroin addiction and crime are thought to be highly correlated because
a) the drug causes loss of a moral sense, and sociopathy develops.
b) criminals are more likely to become drug addicts than non-criminals because of their association with people in the black market drug trade.
c) addicts commit crimes in order to raise money to buy drugs.
d) addicts do not actually commit more crimes but are arrested more often because their behavior while on the drug is disruptive.
Question 5If Dr. Raymond designs a study to assess the effectiveness of social skills training for patients with schizophrenia, what type of research is he conducting?
a) a correlational study
b) an epidemiological study
c) a behavior-change experiment
d) a hypothesis-testing experiment
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