Psychology Final example #63978

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According to Freud, the dreams of adults can be traced back to?
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erotic wishes
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Compared to unconscious information processing, conscious information processing is relatively?
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slow and especially effective for solving new problems
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The brain waves associated with REM sleep are most similar to those of
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stage 1 sleep
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As Inge recalled her dream, she was dancing with a tall dark, and handsome gentlemen when suddenly the music shifted to loud rock and the man disappeared. According to Freud, Inge's account represents the ______ content of her dream?
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Manifest
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Bed wetting is most likely to occur at the end of?
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slow wave
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Which of the following is bad advice for a person trying to overcome insomnia?
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Drink a glass of wine 15 min before bedtime
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After ingesting a small dose of psychoactive drug, Laqueta experienced vivid visual hallucinations an she felt as if she were separated from her own body. Laquets most likely experienced the effects of?
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LSD
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When cocaine in injected or smoked, it produces a rush of euphoria that lasts 15 to 30 minutes. But the stimulant drug_____ can trigger 8 hours or so of heightened energy and euphoria.
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methamphetamine
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Prolonged and excessive drinking can shrink the brain most intensely in ______ who have ______ of a stomach enzyme that digests alcohol.
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women; more
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Francios was dismayed to discover that some of his football teammates were using drugs to enhance their footwork and endurance on the playing field. Which of the following drugs were the players most likely using?
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amphetamines
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REM sleep is
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inhibited by alcohol and inhibited by sleeping pills
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Under the influence of alcohol, angered people are ____ likely to be aggressive than they would otherwise be and restaurant patrons are _____ likely to tip generously than they otherwise would.
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more; more
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Near- death experiences are
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often accompanied by vision of bright lights
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Our inability to fall asleep early, as we planned, is most likely a reflection of
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the circadian rhythm
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Orne and Evans discovered that un-hypnotized subjects performed the same dangerous acts as hypnotized subjects. This finding in most consistent with the theory that hypnosis involves
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conscious role playing
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Chronic sleep deprivation is likely to?
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promote obesity and impair memory
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Traffic accident rates have been found to ______ after spring change to daylight savings time and to _______ after fall changes back to standard time.
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increase; decrease
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At 3o'clock in the morning John has already slept for 4 hours. As long as his sleep continues, we can expect and increasing occurrence of?
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REM sleep
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U.S. sixth graders ______ their friends' use of marijuana, and university students ______ their fellow students' enthusiasm.
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overestimate, overestimate
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One naturalistic observation of pedestrians found that half the people on cellphones exhibit unsafe road crossing. This illustrates the impact of
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selective attention.
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The removal of electric shock is to the receipt of money as ____________ is to ______.
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primary reinforcer; conditioned reinforcer
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The ability to distinguish between a conditioned stimulus and a similar stimuli that do not signal an unconditioned stimulus is called ?
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discrimination
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Operant response rates remain highest when individuals anticipate that their behavior will actually lead to further reinforcement. This best illustrates the importance of ________ in operant conditioning.
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cognitive processes
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Our ability to learn by witnessing the behavior of others best illustrates?
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observational learning.
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Janet has almost finished painting a neighbor's house, at which time she'll be paid $2000. The fact that she is increasingly unlikely to quit paining as she nears completion of the job best illustrates that operant behavior is strongly influences by ______ reinforces.
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immediate
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Both classical and operant conditioning are forms of.
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associative learning
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On the first day of class,Professor Wallaces tells her geography students that pop quizzes will be given at unpredictable times throughout the semester. Clearly, studying for Professor Wallace's surprise quizzes will be reinforces on a schedule.
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variable-interval
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The idea that any perceivable neutral stimulus can serve as a CS was challenged by
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Garcia and Koelling's findings on taste aversion in rats
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A response is learned most rapidly and is most resistant to extinction if it is acquired under conditions of
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continuous reinforcement followed by partial reinforcement.
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Animals tend to revert from newly learned habits to their biologically predisposed behaviors. This is an example of
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instinctive drift.
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F. Skinner believed that teaching machines could promote effective learning because they allow for both
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shaping and immediate reinforcement
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If rats are allowed to wander through a complicated maze, they will subsequently run the maze with few errors when a food reward is placed at the end. Their good performance demonstrates
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latent learning
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Alex was paid $100 for eight hours of work. The money was a(n)
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conditioned reinforce
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The desire to perform a behavior due to promised rewards or threats of punishment involves
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extrinsic motivation
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Every Saturday morning, Arnold quickly washes the family's breakfast dishes so that his father will allow him to wash his car. In this instance, washing the car is a(n)
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positive reinforce
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When grocery shopping with his mother, 4-year-old Hakim sometimes throws temper tantrums if his mother refuses his requests for a particular snack food. Parent-training experts would suggest that his mother should
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continue shopping while ignoring Hakim's tantrums
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The fact that learning can occur without reinforcement is most clearly demonstrated by studies of
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latent learning
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Nikki has learned to expect the sound of thunder whenever she sees a flash of lightning. This suggests that associative learning involves
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cognitive processes.
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Watching the night sky for shooting stars is likely to be reinforced on a ________ schedule.
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variable-interval
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We find it harder to frown when viewing a smile than when viewing a frown. This can most clearly be attributed to
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mirror neurons
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Some of the information in our ________ memory is encoded into ________ memory.
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iconic; short-term
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The disruptive effect of new learning on the recall of previously learned information is called
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retroactive interference.
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Excitement or stress triggers our glands to produce stress hormones. This is most likely to facilitate
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long term potentiation
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When Sperling visually displayed three rows of three letters each for only one-twentieth of a second, research participants
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had a momentary photographic memory of all nine letters
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Damage to the ________ is most likely to interfere with explicit memories of newly learned verbal information. Damage to the ________ is most likely to interfere with explicit memories of newly learned visual designs
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left hippocampus: right hippocampus
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The importance of effortful processing for long-term retention is best illustrated by
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this misinformation effect
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Among contemporary memory researchers, increasing numbers think that ______ rarely, if ever, occurs
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repression
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Automatic processing occurs without
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conscious awareness
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When an eyewitness to an auto accident is asked to describe what happened, which test of memory is being used?
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recall
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The hippocampus plays a critical role in ________ memory.
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explicit
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Echoic memory refers to
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a momentary sensory memory of auditory stimuli
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The retention of encoded information over time refers to.
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storage
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Research on memory construction indicates that memories of past experiences are likely to be.
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distorted by our current assumptions
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Karl Lashley trained rats to solve a maze and then removed pieces of their cortexes. He observed that storage of their maze memories
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was not restricted to specific regions of the cortex
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The fact that our preconceived ideas contribute to our ability to process new information best illustrates the importance of
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semantic encoding
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Which of the following questions about the word depressed would best prepare you to correctly remember tomorrow that you had seen the word on today's test?
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How well does the word describe you?
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Our inability to remember information presented in the seconds just before we fall asleep is most likely due to
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encoding failure
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The inability to recall which numbers on a telephone dial are not accompanied by letters is most likely due to
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encoding failure
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When 80-year-old Ida looked at her old wedding pictures, she was flooded with vivid memories of her parents, her husband, and the early years of her marriage. The pictures served as powerful
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retrieval cues
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Research on young children's false eyewitness recollections has indicated that
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it is surprisingly difficult for both children and professional interviewers to reliably separate the children's true memories from false memories.
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Gender differences in erotic plasticity are best illustrated by the fact that women
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tend to be more changeable than men in sexual orientation
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When exposed to a scent derived from men's sweat, gay and straight men responded differently in the area of the ________ that governs sexual arousal
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hypothalamus
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Maslow referred to the needs for purpose and meaning that lie beyond the self as
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self-transcendence needs
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Professor Langley emphasizes that premature sexual activity among high school students involves the interplay of alcohol consumption, mass media norms, and teens' underestimation of their vulnerability to sexually transmitted infections. The professor's emphasis best illustrates.
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a biopsychosocial approach
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Researchers observed that the ________ levels of heterosexual male collegians were especially likely to increase while they were conversing with a ________ student.
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testosterone; female
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Those most vulnerable to anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are those who ________ value thinness and have the ________ body dissatisfaction.
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most; greatest
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Those who view their work as a necessary but personally unfulfilling way to make money are said to view work as a.
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job
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Unstructured interviews provide a ________ predictor of on-the-job performance than aptitude tests and a ________ predictor of on-the-job performance than job knowledge tests.
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worse; worse
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Compared with people in the early 1900s, we are eating.
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a higher sugar; higher fat diet
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Isaac, a 25-year-old law student, is heterosexual; his brother Chaim, a 21-year-old college senior, is homosexual. The brothers obviously differ in their.
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sexual orientation
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Over the past 50 years, American women have expressed ________ satisfaction with their physical appearance and have experienced a(n) ________ incidence of serious eating disorders.
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decreasing: increasing
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Activity in the ________ depresses hunger.
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ventromedial hypothalamus
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Developing assessment tools for selecting and placing employees is of most direct relevance to.
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personnel psychology
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The refractory period is the.
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time span after orgasm during which a male cannot be aroused to another orgasm
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If your close friend becomes obese, the odds of you likewise becoming obese increase. This best illustrates the impact of ________ on obesity
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social influence
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The most basic or lowest-level need in Maslow's hierarchy of human motives includes the need for.
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food and water
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Psychologists have used four perspectives in their efforts to explain motivation. These include an emphasis on instincts, optimum arousal, a hierarchy of motives, and.
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drive reduction
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Many sexually active American adolescents fail to avoid pregnancy because.
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they have mistaken ideas about effective birth control methods
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Basal metabolic rate is the body's resting rate of.
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energy expenditure
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About eight months ago, 14-year-old Shelley went on a drastic weight-loss diet that caused her to drop from 110 to 80 pounds. Although she is now dangerously underweight and under-nourished, she continues to think she looks fat. Her frustrated father recently forced her to eat a peanut butter sandwich, but Shelley immediately went to the bathroom and threw it all up. Shelley most clearly suffers from
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anorexia nervosa