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Question 1

Histrionic PD

Answer 1

excessive emotionality and attention seeking

Question 2

Psychopathy

Answer 2

lack of remorse, anxiety and other social emotions

Question 3

Antisocial personality disorder

Answer 3

lifelong pattern of antisocial behavior such as law-breaking, violence

Question 4

A number of factors in these personality disorders 4

Answer 4

o Abnormalities in the central nervous system
o Impaired frontal-lobe functioning
o Genetic influences
o Environmental events

Question 5

Two dominant approaches to understanding addiction and drug abuse

Answer 5

• biological model

- learning model

Question 6

biological model of addiction

Answer 6

 An addiction, whether to alcohol or any other drug, is due primarily to a person’s biochemistry, metabolism

Question 7

learning model of addiction

Answer 7

 Addiction patterns vary according to cultural practices and social environment
 Policies of total abstinence tend to increase rates of addiction rather than reduce them
 Not all addicts have withdrawal symptoms they stop taking a drug
 Addiction does not depend on properties of the drug along but also on the reason for taking it