Chapter 28 & 29 - Personality Disorders

Question 1

avoidant personality disorder

Answer 1

avoid others

Question 2

dependent personality disorder

Answer 2

cling to others in a desperate attempt to keep them close

Question 3

conduct disorder

Answer 3

serious violation of social norms, including aggressive behaviors, destruction of property, and cruelty to animals

Question 4

histrionic personality disorder

Answer 4

lively and draw attention to themselves by the enthusiasm, dress, and apparent openness

Question 5

intermittent explosive disorder

Answer 5

episode of aggressiveness that results in assault or destruction of property

Question 6

kleptomania

Answer 6

individuals that cannot resist the urge to steal

Question 7

narcissistic personality disorder

Answer 7

grandiose, have need for admirations and lack empathy

Question 8

obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

Answer 8

attempt to maintain control by careful attentions to rules, details, procedures, and lists.

Question 9

oppositional defiant disorder

Answer 9

persistent pattern of disobedience, arguments, angry outbursts, low tolerance for frustrations, and tendency to blame others

Question 10

paranoid personality disorder

Answer 10

long standing suspiciousness and mistrust of person in general

Question 11

pyromania

Answer 11

repeated fire setting with tension or arousal before setting fires

Question 12

schizoid personality disorder

Answer 12

social isolation and distrust. Characterized by socially detached, withdrawn and restricted

Question 13

schizotypy

Answer 13

similar to schizophrenia but less severe. Magical beliefs, perceptual symptoms, referential thinking and paranoia

Question 14

schizotypal personality disorder

Answer 14

pattern of social and interpersonal deficits.