FINAL EXAM Flashcards

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Defining personality disorders

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  • unusual
  • problematic
  • impact social relations
  • stable over time
  • ego-syntonic (view it as who they are as a person)
  • any trait taken to the extreme can be pathological
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6 personality disorders

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  1. schizotypal
  2. narcissistic
  3. antisocial
  4. borderline
  5. avoidant
  6. obsessive-compulsive
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schizotypal

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  • people are unconventional
  • hard to relate to others
  • men
  • quirky, odd, eccentric, 0.5-3.5%
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narcissistic

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  • inflated self-esteem, expect praise
  • exploitive, sensitive to criticism, ego-syntonic
  • 0-6.2%
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antisocial

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  • dishonest, lie, cheat, impulsive
  • men
  • heartless, psychopathy, addiction
  • 0.2-3.3%
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borderline

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  • different day to day, self harm
  • women
  • chaotic, instability
    -2%
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avoidant

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  • feels inadequate
  • expect the worse
  • 2.4%
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obsessive compulsive

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  • order, structure
  • rituals, hard workers, ego-syntonic
  • 2.1-7.9%
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DSM vs ICD-11 creators

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DSM: American psychology association
ICD-11: WHO

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Bad 5 (DSM)

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  1. negative affectivity
  2. detatchment
  3. antagonism
  4. disinhibition
  5. psychoticsm
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Bad 5 (ICD-11)

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  1. negative affectivity
  2. detatchment
  3. dissociality
  4. dishinibition
  5. anakastia
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DSM diagnosis

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  1. asses clients personality functioning
  2. asses if at least 1 of 6 disorders is present
  3. asses each of 5 maladaptive traits
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ICD diagnosis

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  1. asses degree of disfunction
  2. can be qualified by description of domain traits
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14
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diagnosis

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labelling: somewhat misleading but useful

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ways of testing stability vs change

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research design:
- cross sectional: compare different age groups (dis: cohort differences)
- longitudinal: measures same individuals over time

analytical approach:
- mean level: time1 - time2 = mean level
- >0 increase
- =0 stable
- <0 decreased

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maturity principle

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people mature in predictable ways

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big 5 maturity

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  • extraversion: increase until middle age, then stabilize
  • neg emotionality: decrease until middle age, then stabilize
  • agreeableness + conscientiousness: steadily increase across lifespan
  • openness: initial increase, stability, later decrease
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rank order

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rank order of people over time
- correlation (r): r>0 more stability r<0 more change
- big 5: increasing stability

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continuity vs plasticity principle

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C: personality is increasingly stable
P: you can always change but it gets hard

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drivers of personality change + stability

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  • enviornmental: have kids, find partners, social investment principle (change in role change personality)
  • biological: brain development and decline (prozac)
  • transactional: active: choose their environments
    –>reactive: experience environment differently
    –> evocative: change their enviornments
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can we change our personality

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  • have to want to
  • have to think its possible
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self regulated behavioural change

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eventually behaviour becomes habitual, trait change

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goal setting to change behaviour

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DONT: im going to be more studious (trait level)
DO: if… then… (if im assigned homework then I will complete it that night)

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Big 5 likable people

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  • sociability: outgoing
  • energy level: energetic/active
  • assertiveness: dominant/controlling
  • thankful, polite
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communal orientation

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  • motivated to meet partners needs
  • not contingent on partners actions
26
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speed dating

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  • picky, less attracted to others
  • warm, more attracted to others
  • extraversion, more interest
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contempt

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cold, arrogant, less committed, dissatisfied with partner, low agreeableness

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rejection sensitivity

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  • hyper vigilant for rejection
  • mis-utilize cues
  • leading to anxiety
  • I data can be causal
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interpersonal cirumplux

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  • X-axis: cold<-(communion)->warm
  • Y-axis (up->down) dominant<-(agency)->submissive
  • diagonal (right up): Extraversion<–>Introversion
  • diagonal (left up): Calculating<–>Unassuming
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principles of vectors

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  1. Angle: angle of vector describes behaviour
  2. Length: intensity of behaviour, longer=more intense
  3. Spin: angle as it changes over time, stability
31
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complimentary principles

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  • if dom, inviting someone to be sub
  • if warm, inviting someone to be warm
  • if cold, inviting you to be cold
  • if introverted, inviting you to be calculating
32
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who uses online dating

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big 5: r=0
rejection sensitivity: r=.14

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compatibility

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similarity importance: typical person attracted to typical person, understand eachother
similarity not important: people like extraversion + agreeableness, 2 people high in rejection sensitivity is not good

34
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strategic misrepresentation

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50% of people lie
men: lie about height
women: lie about weight

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big 5 and lying

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less likely to lie: agreeable, conscientious, open-minded
extraversion: depends on context, dont lie about hobbies but lie about relationships

36
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linguistic cues

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  • few self references: lying
  • lying: increased negations, few words
37
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culture

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psychological aspects of groups
- languages, modes of thinking, values, norms, ethnicity, transportation, sports, univerisities

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how do you get cultured

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  • enculturation: born into it
  • acculuration: travel, adapt, learn it
39
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International understanding

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unattended children, “embracing”, “criminal”, marijuana legalization, gun violence, winter driving

40
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external validity

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WEIRD (western, educated, industrialized, rich, democratic)

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understanding whole persons

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experience of the world, meaning of behaviours

42
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etics vs emics

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etics: universal core components of an idea
emics: specific aspects or particulars of an idea

43
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easy vs tough cultures

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E: people can pursue many paths to success
T: few paths to success

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Achievement vs Affiliation

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Achieve: emphasis need to achieve
Affil: emphasis love and affiliation

45
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Tightness vs looseness

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T: not ok to derive from norms (priority seating)
L: ok to derive from norms (jaywalking)

46
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head vs heart

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head: artistic excellence, creativity, curiosity (san fran, LA)
heart: fairness, gratitude, love (Miami, Virginia)

47
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individualism

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  • how individuals relate to society
  • higher behaviour consistency
  • more autobiographies
  • more social, few arranged marriages
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collectivism

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  • needs of many outweighs need of own
  • fewer autobiography
  • less social
  • emotions other focused
49
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big 5 strong claim

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big 5 universal across all cultures
- statistically similar in all countries
- Botswana + Nigeria lowest simularity

50
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forager-horticulturalist tribe Bolivia

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  • big 2: prosocial + industrious
51
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multiculturalism

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  • place representing many cultures
    -many cultures within an individual
52
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bilingual 2 personalities

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-monoculture American : bi cultural
- bi-cultural: monoculture mexican

53
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ethnocentrism

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judging another culture from POV of your own

54
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exaggerating differences

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implies all people form the same country are same
1. trying to find differencees
2. poor statical valdity
3. outgrip homogeneity bias: people perceive more differences in own culture than others

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within culture changes

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  • culture isn’t unchanged, increased individualism
  • increasing extraversion, corporate culture consultant
56
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integration evolution

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  • culture, tools more accessible
  • distal –> proximal