Chapter 10

Question 1

Character Disorders

Answer 1

Any of a group of personality disorders characterized by a persistent pattern of maladaptive behavior, emotional instability, immaturity, compulsive gambling, sexual deviation, or alcohol or drug addiction.

Question 2

Personality disoder

Answer 2

Gradual development of inflexible and distorted personality and behavioral patterns that result in persistently maladaptive ways of perceiving, thinking about, and relating to the world.

Question 3

Psychopathy

Answer 3

A condition involving the features of antisocial personality disorder and such traits as lack of empathy, inflated and arrogant self-appraisal, and glib and superficial charm.