The staff of a mental health center is reviewing the diagnostic criteria for personality disorders. Schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders are causing them difficulty because they are so similar.
In order to differentiate the two, they list symptoms that the disorders share and do not share. What symptoms will they have listed as occurring in schizotypal personality disorder but not schizoid personality disorder?
a) poor social skills
b) shallow emotions
c) oddities of speech
d) lack of close relationships
Question 2
A group of psychologists is interested in evaluating the diagnosis of hyperactivity, so they ask parents and teachers to use questionnaires and make observations to assess the presence of the symptoms. What are they likely
to find?
a) Parents and teachers tend to agree on the presence of the symptoms.
b) Parents tend to see more aggressiveness in the children than teachers
see.
c) There will be limited agreement across evaluators and methods of
assessment.
d) Agreement is much higher for behavioral observations by teachers than
for parents' behavioral observations.
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