When a child with autism spectrum disorder says, "You want a drink," when he really means that he wants a drink, he is displaying:

The inability to accurately interpret one's internal biological emotional or physiological states is characteristic of both:

When Selina sees a report of a train wreck on television, she thinks that it is a sign that she should not take the train to work the next day and so decides to take the bus instead. If she has a diagnosable personality disorder, it is MOST likely:

What does it mean to say that intelligence tests are culturally biased?

Most colleges and universities now require students to have a meningitis vaccination before enrolling. Untreated meningitis can lead to:

In 1985, 1 per _____ children were diagnosed with autism.

If you were trying to learn a new language and you could understand it better than you could speak it, you would be showing symptoms MOST like:

Some researchers note that the majority of those diagnosed with borderline personality disorder are female and that many of these women experienced emotional trauma, victimization, violence, and various forms of abuse as children. As a result, these researchers view the disorder as a special form of:

According to current research, if a person living in the United States is distrustful of both lawyers and congressional members, that type of person is:

The DSM-5 identifies 10 personality disorders utilizing a:

A child is receiving problem-solving skills training as a treatment for conduct disorder. You can be reasonably sure that:

Based on a structured interview, Diagnostician A classifies an individual's personality disorder in the "odd" cluster. Based on another structured interview of the same type, Diagnostician B classifies an individual's personality disorder in the "dramatic" cluster. If what is described here is typical of what happens when that variety of structured interview is used, one would say the structured interview has:

If future editions of the DSM change to a dimensional approach in the diagnosis of personality disorders, clinicians will have to:

A client is searching for the BEST treatment for borderline personality disorder. Will drug treatment be effective if it is the only intervention the client receives?

The lack of multicultural research is of special concern with regard to:

Dr. Marsha Linehan, the developer of dialectical behavior therapy, would have diagnosed her young adult self with:

Anoxia, one possible source of intellectual disability, involves brain damage resulting from:

Which statement BEST represents current knowledge about mass murderers?

A group of diagnostic clinicians can't agree with each other on appropriate personality disorder diagnoses for several clients. In fact, it is obvious that, in many cases, they have inaccurately made their diagnoses. Assuming they are competent clinicians, this situation would indicate the DSM-5 categories for personality disorder are:

The MOST important similarity among the personality disorders listed in the text is that: