1. Psychological Disorders Part 3

Question 1

What is a dissociative disorder?

Answer 1

psychological disorder characterized by a person’s thoughts, feelings, or behaviors being separated from conscious awareness and control and not explainable as mere forgetfullness

Question 2

What is dissociative identity disorder?

Answer 2

person alternates among two or more distinct personality states only one of which interacts with other people at a given time

Question 3

What is dissociative amnesia?

Answer 3

person has had at least one episode of forgetting some important personal information, creating gaps in memory that are usually related to severe stress or trauma

Question 4

What is dissociative fugue?

Answer 4

dissociative disorder in which someone goes on a journey during which he or she cannot recall personal history prior to the journey

Question 5

What is selective amnesia?

Answer 5

some events during a particular time period are forgotten

Question 6

What is generalized amnesia?

Answer 6

persons whole lifetime is forgotten

Question 7

What is continuous amnesia?

Answer 7

everything since a certain time is forgotten

Question 8

What is systematized amnesia?

Answer 8

only particular categories of information are forgotten

Question 9

What is depersonalization disorder?

Answer 9

person has recurring or persistent feelings of being cut off or detached from his or her body or mental processes as if observing them from the outside

Question 10

What is derealization disorder?

Answer 10

person experiences a feeling that people or objects in the external world are not real

Question 11

What is a personality disorder?

Answer 11

enduring, rigid set of personality traits that deviate from cultural norms, impairs functioning, and causes distress either to the person with the disorder or to those in his or her life

Question 12

What are cluster A personality disorders?

Answer 12

paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders associated with irrational, withdrawn, cold, or suspicious behaviors

Question 13

What are cluster B personality disorders?

Answer 13

antisocial, borderline, and narcissistic disorders associated with emotional, dramatic, and attention-seeking behaviors

Question 14

What are cluster C personality disorders?

Answer 14

avoidant, dependent, and obsessive compulsive disorders associated with tense, anxious, and over-controlled behaviors

Question 15

What is a paranoid personality disorder?

Answer 15

person mistrusts and misinterprets others motive and actions without sufficient cause, suspecting them of deceiving, harming, betraying, or attacking him or her

Question 16

What is schizoid personality disorder?

Answer 16

person is a loner with little interest or involvement in close relationships, even those with family members

Question 17

What is schizotypal personality disorder?

Answer 17

person has several traits that cause problems interpersonally, including limited or inappropriate affect, magical or paranoid thinking, and odd beliefs, speech, behaviors, and appearance

Question 18

What is antisocial personality disorder?

Answer 18

person has a history of serious behavior problems beginning as a young teen including significant aggression against people or animals, deliberate property destruction, lying or theft, and serious rule violation

Question 19

What is histrionic personality disorder?

Answer 19

person strongly desires to be the center of attention and often seeks to attract attention through personal appearance and seductive behavior

Question 20

What is narcissistic personality disorder?

Answer 20

person feels grandiosely self-important with fantasies of beauty, brilliance, and power