(52) Personality and impulse control disorders

Question 1

Defn of personality disorder and characteristics

Answer 1

behavior that deviates from society’s expectations and that are pervasive and inflexible, stable over time, and start in adolescence or early adulthood

Question 2

What are the predictors of developing a personality disorder?

Answer 2

health and mortality, academic success, job performance, ability to make lasting relationships, drug abuse, criminality

Question 3

Freud and Erickson’s explanations for the development of personality disorders

Answer 3

Freud: “fixation” at an early stage prevents person to move on

Erickson: certain tasks must be mastered at certain stages of development and will cause personality disorders if not AND “basic trust” people who were raised in chaos are deficient in basic trust

Question 4

extended early trauma an abuse have been shown to adversely affect …

Answer 4

coping skills and brain development

Question 5

What are defense mechanisms

Answer 5

unconscious cognitive strategies that help to deal with stressful information

Question 6

What are the common defense mechanisms?

Answer 6

denial: contradictory or threatening info is not allowed to be stored in memory
repression: contradictory or threatening info is neither recognized or retrievable from memory
intellectualization: traumatic events or memories are re-conceptualized to seem distant from meaning and assc emotional response

Projection: feelings or ideas that are inconsistent with their idea of themselves is attributed to someone else

Regression: stress is responded to in cognitive processes that were used in earlier stages of development in which there was less stressful coping

Question 7

for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

inflated self image

Answer 7

Narcacistic (B)

Question 8

for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

pervasive relience on others

Answer 8

Dependent (C)

Question 9

for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

unstable mood and relationships

Answer 9

Borderline (B)

Question 10

for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

alienated

Answer 10

schizoid (A)

Question 11

for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

amoral and destructive

Answer 11

Antisocial (B)

Question 12

for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

suspicious and distructfus

Answer 12

Paranoid (A)

Question 13

for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

perfectionist and inflexible

Answer 13

Obsessive compulsive (C)

Question 14

for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

excessive anxiety

Answer 14

Avoidant (C)

Question 15

for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

odd ideas and behaviors

Answer 15

Schiotypal (A)

Question 16

for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:

dramatic and flamboyant

Answer 16

Histrionic (B)

Question 17

biological relatives of people wiht schizophrenia are often cluster ___

Answer 17

A

Question 18

often used defense mechanism for paranoid personalities

Answer 18

projection

Question 19

common defense mechanisms for cluster B disorders (Antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic)

Answer 19

denial, projection, and somatization

Question 20

people with histrionic personality disorder often have a FH of

Answer 20

antisocial or alcohol

Question 21

personality disorder that overlaps with narassitic

Answer 21

antisocial

Question 22

What is a common defense mech for people with borderline personality disorder?

Answer 22

splitting

Question 23

difference between schizoid personality and social phobia

Answer 23

schizoid have NO desire for social relationships

social phobia HAS desire

Question 24

people with this disorder may be niave and sexually seductive

Answer 24

Histrionic

Question 25

people with this personality disorder have bondary issues

Answer 25

boderline

Question 26

people with this personality disorder are often humorless and hoard things

Answer 26

obsessive compulsive

Question 27

people with this disorder have no conscious therefore they feel no guilt or remorse

Answer 27

Antisocial

**LIFE LONG PATTERN

Question 28

personality disorders assc with magical thinking

Answer 28

Schizotypal

Question 29

person with this personality disorder is a solitary loner (seeks night shifts) that does not want or seek close relationships

Answer 29

Schizoid

Question 30

Pts with cluster ____ disorders are often mistaken for bipolar. How could they be differentiated

Answer 30

B bc the pts with cluster B will not improve with medication (they need psychotherapy)

Question 31

Chronology needed to diagnose a person with antisocial personality disorder

Answer 31

18 or older

evidence of misconduct starting BEFORE AGE 15

Question 32

personality disorder assc with self injurious behavior

Answer 32

borderline

Question 33

person with this personality disorder takes pleasure in few (if any) activities

Answer 33

Schizoid

Question 34

person with this disorder often has unstable moods, stormy relationships, and makes poor choices

Answer 34

Borderline

Question 35

difference between a schizotypal person and a psychotic person

Answer 35

schizotypal still are in touch with reality

Question 36

term for compulsive hair pulling

Answer 36

trichotillomania

**OCD

Question 37

term for compulsive skin-picking

Answer 37

excoriation

**OCD