18.3 word analysis and definition personality disorders

Question 1

addict

Answer 1

person with a psychologic or physical dependence on a substance or practice

Question 2

addidtion

Answer 2

habitual psychologic and physiologic dependence on a substance or practice

Question 3

amnesia

Answer 3

total or partial inability to remember past experiences

Question 4

antisocial personality disorder

Answer 4

disorder of people who lie, cheat, steal, and have no guilt about their behaviour

Question 5

dissociative identity disorder

Answer 5

mental disorder in which part of an individual’s personality is separated from the rest, leading to multiple personalities

Question 6

empathy

Answer 6

ability to place yourself into the feelings, emotion and reactions of another person

Question 7

kleptomania

Answer 7

uncontrollable need to steal

Question 8

narcissism

Answer 8

self-love; person interprets everything purely in relation to himself or herself

Question 9

narcissistic

Answer 9

relating everything to oneself; pertaining to, or suffering from, narcissism

Question 10

psychopath

Answer 10

person with antisocial personality disorder who is prone to anger violence

Question 11

pyromania

Answer 11

morbid impulse to set fires

Question 12

schizoid

Answer 12

withdrawn, socially isolates

Question 13

self-mutilation

Answer 13

injury or disfigurement made to one’s own body

Question 14

sociopath

Answer 14

person with antisocial personality disorder

Question 15

sympathy

Answer 15

appreciation and concern for another person’s mental and emotional state