Personailty Flashcards
Avoidant, Dependent, and Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorders are categorized in which cluster?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
Answer: C) Cluster C
Which cluster of personality disorders is typically marked by social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
Answer: C) Cluster C
Which cluster includes personality disorders that often involve odd beliefs, magical thinking, or eccentric behaviors?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
Answer: A) Cluster A
Disorders in which cluster are most likely to exhibit attention-seeking, impulsive behaviors, and emotional instability?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
Answer: B) Cluster B
Which personality disorder cluster is characterized by a pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and restricted emotional expression?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
Answer: A) Cluster A
What are the key characteristics of a personality disorder?
- A) Brief periods of altered perception and emotions
- B) An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that is pervasive, inflexible, and maladaptive
- C) Temporary mood swings
- D) Stable behavior that only changes during stressful situations
B) An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that is pervasive, inflexible, and maladaptive
What are the three clusters of personality disorders?
- A) Anxious, emotional, logical
- B) Odd/eccentric, dramatic/emotional, anxious/fearful
- C) Emotional, cognitive, aggressive
- D) Introverted, extroverted, balanced
B) Odd/eccentric, dramatic/emotional, anxious/fearful
Which personality disorders fall under Cluster B: Dramatic, Emotional, or Erratic behavior?
- A) Schizoid, Schizotypal, Paranoid
- B) Avoidant, Dependent, Obsessive-Compulsive
- C) Borderline, Antisocial, Histrionic, Narcissistic
- D) Avoidant, Borderline, Histrionic
C) Borderline, Antisocial, Histrionic, Narcissistic
Which of the following is a hallmark feature of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?
- A) Grandiosity and need for admiration
- B) Marked impulsivity and unstable interpersonal relationships
- C) Preference for solitude and detachment from social relationships
- D) Excessive need for orderliness and perfectionism
B) Marked impulsivity and unstable interpersonal relationships
Which of the following is a common risk factor for developing Borderline Personality Disorder?
- A) Childhood trauma, such as sexual abuse or family violence
- B) Elevated dopamine levels
- C) Excessive childhood praise and adoration
- D) High levels of serotonin
A) Childhood trauma, such as sexual abuse or family violence
What is Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) primarily used to treat?
- A) Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- B) Borderline Personality Disorder
- C) Schizoid Personality Disorder
- D) Antisocial Personality Disorder
B) Borderline Personality Disorder
Which personality disorder is characterized by a pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy?
- A) Histrionic Personality Disorder
- B) Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- C) Antisocial Personality Disorder
- D) Borderline Personality Disorder
B) Narcissistic Personality Disorder
What are the therapeutic goals for treating Histrionic Personality Disorder?
- A) Fulfill all the patient’s needs and encourage dependency
- B) Correct the tendency to expect others to fulfill all their needs and develop autonomy
- C) Help the patient manage their relationships by increasing their assertiveness
- D) Encourage isolation to avoid negative social interactions
B) Correct the tendency to expect others to fulfill all their needs and develop autonomy
Which personality disorder involves a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others?
- A) Borderline Personality Disorder
- B) Antisocial Personality Disorder
- C) Schizoid Personality Disorder
- D) Dependent Personality Disorder
B) Antisocial Personality Disorder
Which of the following is a nursing care intervention for patients with Schizoid Personality Disorder?
- A) Encourage social interactions and provide social skills training
- B) Focus on fulfilling their emotional needs
- C) Reinforce their need for independence and isolation
- D) Challenge their magical beliefs
A) Encourage social interactions and provide social skills training
What characterizes Schizotypal Personality Disorder?
- A) Preference for solitude and detachment
- B) Acute discomfort with close relationships, cognitive or perceptual distortions, and eccentricities of behavior
- C) Obsessive concern with order and control
- D) Submissive and clinging behavior
B) Acute discomfort with close relationships, cognitive or perceptual distortions, and eccentricities of behavior
Which disorder is marked by extreme social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation?
- A) Avoidant Personality Disorder
- B) Dependent Personality Disorder
- C) Schizoid Personality Disorder
- D) Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
A) Avoidant Personality Disorder
Which personality disorder involves a pervasive need to be taken care of, leading to submissive and clinging behavior and fear of separation?
- A) Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- B) Schizoid Personality Disorder
- C) Dependent Personality Disorder
- D) Histrionic Personality Disorder
C) Dependent Personality Disorder
What is the primary characteristic of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?
- A) Preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control
- B) Distrust and suspicion of others
- C) Extreme need for attention and admiration
- D) Impulsivity and erratic mood swings
A) Preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control
hich therapeutic technique is important for patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?
- A) Reinforce the need for rigidity and structure
- B) Encourage flexibility and help them examine beliefs underlying dysfunctional behavior
- C) Avoid setting boundaries or limits
- D) Ignore their preoccupation with orderliness
B) Encourage flexibility and help them examine beliefs underlying dysfunctional behavior
What is the definition of a personality disorder according to the document?
- A) Temporary mood instability
- B) A stable, enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates from cultural expectations
- C) Personality traits that change frequently
- D) A disorder that occurs only during stressful situations
B) A stable, enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates from cultural expectations
ersonality disorders often start in which developmental stage?
- A) Childhood
- B) Adolescence or early adulthood
- C) Mid-adulthood
- D) Late adulthood
B) Adolescence or early adulthood
Cluster A personality disorders are characterized by which of the following?
- A) Odd or eccentric behavior
- B) Dramatic and erratic behavior
- C) Anxious or fearful behavior
- D) Impulsive and hostile behavior
A) Odd or eccentric behavior
Which of the following personality disorders is NOT classified under Cluster A?
- A) Schizoid Personality Disorder
- B) Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- C) Paranoid Personality Disorder
- D) Avoidant Personality Disorder
D) Avoidant Personality Disorder
What are common traits of Schizoid Personality Disorder?
- A) Excitable and dramatic
- B) Detachment from social relationships and restricted emotional expression
- C) Manipulative and deceitful
- D) Grandiosity and need for admiration
B) Detachment from social relationships and restricted emotional expression
Which nursing intervention is recommended for individuals with Schizoid Personality Disorder?
- A) Focus on fulfilling their emotional needs
- B) Encourage social skills training and interaction
- C) Challenge their magical thinking
- D) Provide strict structure and limit-setting
B) Encourage social skills training and interaction
Which personality disorder is characterized by social and interpersonal deficits, cognitive or perceptual distortions, and eccentric behavior?
- A) Borderline Personality Disorder
- B) Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- C) Histrionic Personality Disorder
- D) Dependent Personality Disorder
B) Schizotypal Personality Disorder
What is the hallmark feature of Paranoid Personality Disorder?
- A) Perfectionism and rigidity
- B) Persistent distrust and suspiciousness of others
- C) Impulsivity and erratic relationships
- D) Need for attention and approval
B) Persistent distrust and suspiciousness of others
Which therapeutic technique is particularly important when working with patients who have Paranoid Personality Disorder?
- A) Establishing a strong therapeutic relationship through trust
- B) Ignoring their suspicious thoughts
- C) Encouraging emotional expression
- D) Using manipulative techniques to build rapport
A) Establishing a strong therapeutic relationship through trust
Which cluster includes personality disorders characterized by dramatic, emotional, or erratic behaviors?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
- D) Cluster D
B) Cluster B
What personality disorder is characterized by pervasive grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy?
- A) Histrionic Personality Disorder
- B) Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- C) Borderline Personality Disorder
- D) Antisocial Personality Disorder
B) Narcissistic Personality Disorder
What therapeutic goal is important in treating individuals with Histrionic Personality Disorder?
- A) Fulfill all their emotional needs
- B) Help them develop autonomy and a positive self-concept
- C) Encourage emotional outbursts
- D) Challenge their delusional thinking
Answer: B) Help them develop autonomy and a positive self-concept
What personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive disregard for and violation of the rights of others, often leading to criminal behavior?
- A) Borderline Personality Disorder
- B) Antisocial Personality Disorder
- C) Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- D) Avoidant Personality Disorder
Answer: B) Antisocial Personality Disorder
Which intervention is essential for individuals with Antisocial Personality Disorder in a therapeutic setting?
- A) Allowing them to manipulate others
- B) Focusing on self-responsibility and implementing structure through rules
- C) Reinforcing their sense of entitlement
- D) Providing leniency in therapeutic boundaries
Answer: B) Focusing on self-responsibility and implementing structure through rules
What is a hallmark feature of Borderline Personality Disorder?
- A) Lack of empathy and arrogance
- B) Excessive attention-seeking behavior
- C) Unstable interpersonal relationships, self-image, and marked impulsivity
- D) Detachment from social relationships
Answer: C) Unstable interpersonal relationships, self-image, and marked impulsivity
Which disorder is associated with a high risk of self-harm behaviors, such as cutting or burning?
- A) Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- B) Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
- C) Borderline Personality Disorder
- D) Dependent Personality Disorder
Answer: C) Borderline Personality Disorder
What treatment is specifically designed for Borderline Personality Disorder and focuses on emotional regulation and building a life worth living?
- A) Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- B) Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- C) Exposure Therapy
- D) Psychoanalysis
Answer: B) Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Which personality disorder involves a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation?
- A) Schizoid Personality Disorder
- B) Avoidant Personality Disorder
- C) Histrionic Personality Disorder
- D) Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Answer: B) Avoidant Personality Disorder
In treating Avoidant Personality Disorder, which therapeutic strategy is important?
- A) Ignore the patient’s feelings of inadequacy
- B) Establish a therapeutic relationship without criticism, and encourage exploration of previous achievements
- C) Allow the patient to remain isolated
- D) Challenge their paranoid ideation
B) Establish a therapeutic relationship without criticism, and encourage exploration of previous achievements
What is the primary characteristic of Dependent Personality Disorder?
- A) Grandiosity and attention-seeking behavior
- B) Pervasive need to be taken care of, leading to submissive and clinging behavior
- C) Perfectionism and inflexibility
- D) Lack of interest in social relationships
Answer: B) Pervasive need to be taken care of, leading to submissive and clinging behavior
Which intervention is important in the care of a patient with Dependent Personality Disorder?
- A) Encourage the patient to remain dependent on others
- B) Encourage autonomous decision-making and develop adult skills
- C) Set rigid boundaries and provide little emotional support
- D) Reinforce their need for constant reassurance
Answer: B) Encourage autonomous decision-making and develop adult skills
Which personality disorder is characterized by preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control at the expense of flexibility and efficiency?
- A) Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
- B) Borderline Personality Disorder
- C) Schizoid Personality Disorder
- D) Histrionic Personality Disorder
Answer: A) Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder
What is a key therapeutic approach when working with patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?
- A) Reinforce their need for control and orderliness
- B) Help them examine their beliefs about perfectionism and encourage flexibility
- C) Allow them to remain rigid in their behaviors
- D) Discourage any attempts at flexibility
Answer: B) Help them examine their beliefs about perfectionism and encourage flexibility
What is the biosocial theory of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD)?
- A) It suggests that BPD is purely a biological disorder.
- B) It posits that emotionally vulnerable individuals interact with an invalidating environment, leading to BPD.
- C) It focuses on the role of trauma alone in the development of BPD.
- D) It suggests that BPD is caused by a lack of social interaction.
Answer: B) It posits that emotionally vulnerable individuals interact with an invalidating environment, leading to BPD.
What are the core components of Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) used for BPD?
- A) Medication management and exercise
- B) Cognitive and behavioral therapies combined with group skills training
- C) Purely psychoanalytic approaches
- D) Hypnosis and desensitization
Answer: B) Cognitive and behavioral therapies combined with group skills training
Which personality disorder is associated with transient stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms?
- A) Histrionic Personality Disorder
- B) Schizoid Personality Disorder
- C) Borderline Personality Disorder
- D) Antisocial Personality Disorder
Answer: C) Borderline Personality Disorder
Which personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern of emotional lability, impulsivity, and unstable interpersonal relationships?
- A) Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- B) Borderline Personality Disorder
- C) Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- D) Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorde
Answer: B) Borderline Personality Disorder
Which personality disorder involves an insatiable need for attention and a tendency to be the “life of the party,” often leading to sexually provocative behavior?
- A) Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- B) Histrionic Personality Disorder
- C) Dependent Personality Disorder
- D) Schizoid Personality Disorder
Answer: B) Histrionic Personality Disorder
In the care of patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder, what is an important nursing intervention?
- A) Reinforce the patient’s rigidity and strict adherence to rules
- B) Encourage flexibility and examine underlying beliefs about perfectionism
- C) Ignore their perfectionist tendencies
- D) Allow them to remain focused solely on work and order
Answer: B) Encourage flexibility and examine underlying beliefs about perfectionism
What nursing intervention is particularly important for patients with Antisocial Personality Disorder?
- A) Encouraging them to rely on others for help
- B) Facilitating self-responsibility and implementing structured rules
- C) Encouraging them to express their emotions freely
- D) Ignoring any manipulative behaviors
Answer: B) Facilitating self-responsibility and implementing structured rules
Which personality disorder often involves magical thinking and eccentric behavior, including strange mannerisms and odd speech?
- A) Borderline Personality Disorder
- B) Schizotypal Personality Disorder
- C) Narcissistic Personality Disorder
- D) Avoidant Personality Disorder
Answer: B) Schizotypal Personality Disorder
Which cluster does Paranoid Personality Disorder belong to?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
- D) None of the above
Answer: A) Cluster A
What is the defining characteristic of Paranoid Personality Disorder?
- A) Distrust and suspiciousness of others, interpreting their motives as malevolent
- B) Detachment from social relationships and restricted emotional expression
- C) Excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behavior
- D) Grandiosity and lack of empathy
Answer: A) Distrust and suspiciousness of others, interpreting their motives as malevolent
Schizoid Personality Disorder is characterized by which of the following?
- A) Social inhibition and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation
- B) Grandiosity and need for admiration
- C) Detachment from social relationships and restricted emotional expression
- D) Persistent distrust of others
Answer: C) Detachment from social relationships and restricted emotional expression
Which cluster includes Schizoid Personality Disorder?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
- D) None of the above
Answer: A) Cluster A
Schizotypal Personality Disorder is marked by which of the following traits?
- A) Excessive need for orderliness and control
- B) Acute discomfort in close relationships and cognitive or perceptual distortions, such as magical thinking
- C) Attention-seeking behavior and emotionality
- D) Persistent avoidance of social situations
Answer: B) Acute discomfort in close relationships and cognitive or perceptual distortions, such as magical thinking
Which cluster does Schizotypal Personality Disorder belong to?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
- D) None of the above
Answer: A) Cluster A
Which personality disorder involves pervasive instability in relationships, self-image, and affect, along with marked impulsivity?
- A) Borderline Personality Disorder
- B) Histrionic Personality Disorder
- C) Schizoid Personality Disorder
- D) Narcissistic Personality Disorder
Answer: A) Borderline Personality Disorder
Borderline Personality Disorder belongs to which cluster of personality disorders?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
- D) None of the above
Answer: B) Cluster B
What is the core feature of Antisocial Personality Disorder?
- A) Excessive need for attention and admiration
- B) Grandiosity and entitlement
- C) Disregard for and violation of the rights of others
- D) Detachment from social relationships
Answer: C) Disregard for and violation of the rights of others
Which cluster does Antisocial Personality Disorder fall under?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
- D) None of the above
Answer: B) Cluster B
Histrionic Personality Disorder is best characterized by which of the following?
- A) Pervasive need for control and order
- B) Excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behavior
- C) Detachment from social relationships
- D) Grandiosity and lack of empathy
Answer: B) Excessive emotionality and attention-seeking behavior
Question**: Which cluster includes Histrionic Personality Disorder?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
- D) None of the above
Answer: B) Cluster B
Narcissistic Personality Disorder is defined by which of the following characteristics?
- A) Detachment from social relationships
- B) Grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy
- C) Emotional lability and impulsivity
- D) Excessive need for perfectionism
Answer: B) Grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy
Question**: Narcissistic Personality Disorder belongs to which cluster?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
- D) None of the above
Answer: B) Cluster B
Avoidant Personality Disorder involves which of the following traits?
- A) Excessive need for admiration and grandiosity
- B) Social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation
- C) Detachment from social relationships
- D) Obsessive need for order and control
Answer: B) Social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation
Which cluster includes Avoidant Personality Disorder?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
- D) None of the above
Answer: C) Cluster C
What is the key characteristic of Dependent Personality Disorder?
- A) Pervasive need for control and orderliness
- B) Excessive need to be taken care of, leading to submissive and clinging behavior
- C) Grandiosity and entitlement
- D) Social inhibition and avoidance of relationships
Answer: B) Excessive need to be taken care of, leading to submissive and clinging behavior
Which cluster includes Dependent Personality Disorder?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
- D) None of the above
Answer: C) Cluster C
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Question: Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder is marked by which of the following characteristics?
- A) Social inhibition and low self-esteem
- B) Pervasive preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control
- C) Emotional instability and impulsivity
- D) Need for constant admiration and attention
Answer: B) Pervasive preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control
Question**: Which cluster includes Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
- D) None of the above
Answer: C) Cluster C
Which personality disorder cluster is characterized by odd or eccentric behavior?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
Answer: A) Cluster A
Which cluster of personality disorders is associated with dramatic, emotional, or erratic behavior?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
Answer: B) Cluster B
Which personality disorder cluster includes disorders characterized by anxious or fearful behavior?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
Answer: C) Cluster C
Schizoid, Schizotypal, and Paranoid Personality Disorders are part of which cluster?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
Answer: A) Cluster A
Borderline, Antisocial, Histrionic, and Narcissistic Personality Disorders belong to which cluster?
- A) Cluster A
- B) Cluster B
- C) Cluster C
Answer: B) Cluster B
