Chapter 15 pt2

Question 1

Condition in which personality traits, appearing first in adolescence, are inflexible, stable, expressed in a wide variety of situations, and lead to distress or impairment

Answer 1

Personality Disorder

Question 2

What do People with borderline personality disorder struggle with

Answer 2

individuals with BPD overreact to stress and experience lifelong difficulties with regulating their emotions

Question 3

What percent of the prison population qualifies for psychopathic personality?

Answer 3

25%

Question 4

Dissociative Amnesia

Answer 4

Inability to recall important personal information that can’t be explained by ordinary forgetfulness

Question 5

Sudden, unexpected travel away from home or the workplace, accompanied by amnesia for significant life events

Answer 5

Dissociative Fuge

Question 6

Condition characterized by the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states that recurrently take control of the person’s behavior

Answer 6

Dissociative Identity disorder

Question 7

what is depersonalization disorder?

Answer 7

Condition marked by multiple episodes of feeling detached from oneself

Question 8

This disorder is less than 1% of population but over half the people in mental institutions, they are disconnected from reality some symptoms include delusions and hallucinations

Answer 8

Schizophrenia

Question 9

What caused schizophrenia?

Answer 9

Scientists have discovered brain abnormalities (1 or more enlarged ventricles) in patients with schizophrenia.
Role of dopamine, norepinephrine, glutamate, serotonin.