Agood friend of yours tells you that he has a new job at a bakery. “oh man, you are so lucky,” you tell him. “you get to smell that fresh bread and the donuts all day long. i’d love to work there.” your buddy shakes his head and says, “you know, that’s what i thought, but after i’m there for a few minutes i don’t even smell the baked goods that much anymore.” because you’ve studied psychology, you know that his loss of responsiveness to the great scents is explained by sensory

Marian recently made the decision to try to re-wallpaper her own kitchen—which was a mistake given her personality! to compound the mistake, she selected a complex wallpaper pattern that included flowers and trees. each time she put one strip of paper on the wall, she became increasingly upset if there was not a perfect match from the pattern of one strip to the next. if one flower was off by as much as one-tenth of an inch, she would tear down the strip, remove the excess paste, and try again with the next strip. over eight hours after she started this job, she has only succeeded at putting up six strips of wallpaper, which covered about 10 percent of the room in which she was working. marian may suffer from personality disorder.