Sally is well known around town. people refer to her as the town's "favorite crazy person." she seldom interacts with others and always has on some outlandish outfit. when people try to speak to her, she tells them they have to stay at least 6 feet away so they don't exchange any parts of their soul with her. she seems to get along okay in life but has lots of weird ideas. sally might be diagnosed with which of the following?
a. social anxiety disorder
b. paranoid personality disorder
c. histrionic personality disorder
d. schizotypal personality disorder

It is widely assumed that people need to engage in intellectual activities such as solving crossword puzzles or mathematics problems in order to maintain mental sharpness as they age. in fact, however, simply talking to other people—that is, participating in social interaction, which engages many mental and perceptual skills—suffices. evidence to this effect comes from a study showing that the more social contact people report, the better their mental skills. which of the following, if true, most seriously weakens the force of the evidence cited? (a) as people grow older, they are often advised to keep exercising their physical and mental capacities in order to maintain or improve them. (b) many medical conditions and treatments that adversely affect a person's mental sharpness also tend to increase that person's social isolation. (c) many people are proficient both in social interactions and in solving mathematical problems. (d) the study did not itself collect data but analyzed data bearing on the issue from prior studies. (e) the tasks evaluating mental sharpness for which data were compiled by the study were more akin to mathematics problems than to conversation.