(52) Personality and impulse control disorders Flashcards
Defn of personality disorder and characteristics
behavior that deviates from society’s expectations and that are pervasive and inflexible, stable over time, and start in adolescence or early adulthood
What are the predictors of developing a personality disorder?
health and mortality, academic success, job performance, ability to make lasting relationships, drug abuse, criminality
Freud and Erickson’s explanations for the development of personality disorders
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
extended early trauma an abuse have been shown to adversely affect …
coping skills and brain development
What are defense mechanisms
unconscious cognitive strategies that help to deal with stressful information
What are the common defense mechanisms?
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
for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:
inflated self image
Narcacistic (B)
for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:
pervasive relience on others
Dependent (C)
for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:
unstable mood and relationships
Borderline (B)
for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:
alienated
schizoid (A)
for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:
amoral and destructive
Antisocial (B)
for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:
suspicious and distructfus
Paranoid (A)
for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:
perfectionist and inflexible
Obsessive compulsive (C)
for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:
excessive anxiety
Avoidant (C)
for the following traits name the personality disorder and the cluster:
odd ideas and behaviors
Schiotypal (A)