Neuroscience Week 8: Personality Disorders Flashcards
Personality Definition
Personality generative components
part is inherent other is through experience
A “normal” personality
4 main characteristics
- to function autonomously and competently
- adjust to social environment
- subjective sense of contentment
- abilitiy to filfill one’s potential or to “self-actualize”
Personality health
Abnormal personality
3 main characteristics
- adaptive inflexibility
- vicious circles
- tenuous stability
Common characteristics of personality disorders
6 listed
DSM-5 Diagnosis of Personality Disorder
Value of Personality Assessment perspectives
3 listed
- Dimensional
- Projective
- Categorical
Value of Personality Assessment: Dimensional
MMPI
NEO-FFI
Value of Personality Assessment: Projection
- Rorschach
- Thematic Apperception Test
Value of Personality Assessment: Categorical
DSM-5
ICD-10
NEO-FFI
6 listed
Five-factor inventory
- openness to experience
- conscientious
- extroversion
- agreeableness
- neuroticism
Parking lot of the Personality Disordered
11 types
Cluster A - Weird
3 listed
- Paranoid
- Schizoid
- Schizotypal
Paranoid personality disorder
Distrust and suspiciousness
Schizoid personality disorder
Social detachment and restricted emotion
Schizotypal personality disorder
social deficits and disorted cognition/perception
Paranoid personality disorder Prevalence
2-4% of general population
Schizoid personality disorder prevalence
3-5% of general population
Schizotypal personality disorder prevalence
4-4.5% of general population
Cluster B personality disorders
4 listed
- Antisocial
- Borderline
- Histrionic
- Narcissistic