Hollis has made a career of stealing older people’s retirement money by taking advantage of their trust and selling them phony retirement investments. Hollis explains that he has done nothing wrong-if these people were not so greedy, they would not be so eager to invest in his phony schemes. In his mind, his victims got exactly what they deserved. Hollis’s behavior and attitude are typical of someone with __________ personality disorder.

While talking with his best friend Matt, Carlos, who is clearly down and out, says, “Dude, I just have no luck with girls at all. I asked Tyra out last night and she turned me down flat. Nobody will EVER want to go out with me. Why am I such a loser?” Because Matt has recently taken an abnormal psychology class, he uses a cognitive perspective to answer Carlos. Which of the following might Matt say?

What is Albert Bandura’s term for the relationship among the three factors that influence personality?

Which statement is CORRECT concerning the cultural components of eating disorders?

__________ refers to the source that a person believes to be exerting control over life’s events.

According to Freud, what is the dominant source of erogenous pleasure during the first 18 months of life?

There were three friends. Maybe you’ve heard of them! Harry was rational, logical, and cunning. Hermione was rule-oriented, moral, and always ethical. Ron was pleasure-seeking, found it hard to delay gratification, and usually just did what he wanted. According to Freud, Harry was mostly __________.

Which cognitive event, often attributed to the work of Martin Seligman, is hypothesized as contributing to the development and maintenance of major depression?

Obsession is to compulsion as __________.

Which neo-Freudian theorist emphasized social relationships as the key to understanding personality?