Personality

Question 1

What are the characteristics of paranoid personality?

Answer 1

Suspiciousness and mistrust of others. Tendency to see yourself as blameless on guard perceived attacks by others

Question 2

What is schizoid personality?

Answer 2

characteristics include: Impaired social relationship inability and lack of desire to form attachment to others, less than 1% males greater than females

Question 3

What is schizotypal personality?

Answer 3

The characteristics include peculiar thought patterns oddities of perception and speech that interfere with communication and social interaction. The prevalence is 3% males are greater than females in ratio

Question 4

What does cluster A personality disorders include?

Answer 4

Unusual behaviours such as distrust suspicious, and social detachment; that which often comes across as odd or eccentric.paranoid schizoid schizotypical

Question 5

Cluster B of the personality disorders tend to be

Answer 5

dramatic emotional and erratic thus including histrionic, narcissistic, antisocial and borderline personality disorders

Question 6

What is histrionic personality disorder?

Answer 6

The characteristics include self dramatisation, over concerned with attractiveness, tendency to irritability and temper outburst if attention seeking is frustrated prevalence is between 2 to 3% miles equal female.

Question 7

What is narcissistic personality disorder?

Answer 7

Grandiosity, preoccupation with receiving attention, self promoting, lack of empathy less than 1% males are greater than females

Question 8

What is antisocial personality disorder?

Answer 8

When there is characteristics including lack of moral or ethical development, inability to follow approved models of behaviour, deceitful was, shameless manipulation of others, history of conduct: as a child prevalence is 1% females 3% males is greater than females

Question 9

What is borderline personality disorder? is

Answer 9

impulsiveness, inappropriate anger, drastic shifts, chronic feelings of boredom, attempts of self mutilation or suicide prevalence is 2% and females equals males

Question 10

People with Cluster C personality disorders show?

Answer 10

Anxiety and fearfulness; avoidant, dependent obsessive compulsive

Question 11

Avoidant personality disorder characteristics include?

Answer 11

Hypersensitivity to rejection or social derogation, shyness, insecurity in social interaction and initiating relationships preferences .5 to 1% and females and males are equal in proportion

Question 12

Dependent personality disorders include

Answer 12

the characteristics of difficulty in separating in relationships, discomfort of being alone, subordination needs in order to keep others involved in a relationship, indecisiveness 2%. Males the same ratio as female

Question 13

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorders include?

Answer 13

Excessive concern with order, rules, and trivial details, perfectionist, lack of expressiveness and warmth, difficulty relaxing and having fun 1% of the population males a greater than females of 2 to 1

Question 14

What is the definition of personality disorders?

Answer 14

Psychological disorders are marked by inflexible disruptive and enduring behaviour patterns that impaired social and other functioning whether the suffer recognises that or not

Question 15

What are the treatments for BPD?

Answer 15

Biological-antidepressants, mood stabilisers. However, drugs are only mildly helpful.
Psychosocial- Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) learning to accept negative affect without going into self-destructive behaviour. Uses phone coaching to apply skills of interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, tolerance.
Variants of psychodynamic therapy- strengthen weak egos which causes splitting (it’s either black or white)

Question 16

What are the 2 dimensions of psychopathy?

Answer 16

1st dimension involves affective and interpersonal core of disorder or reflects traits such as lack of remorse of guilt, lack of empathy, superficial charm grandiose sense of self worth, and pathological lying. second dimension includes behaviour impulsive acts, social deviance, need for stimulation, poor behaviour control, irresponsibility and parasitic lifestyle

Question 17

What is the gene environment interaction with antisocial personality disorder?

Answer 17

The monoamineoxidase-A gene is involved in the breakdown of neurotransmitters like norepinephrine, dopamine & serotonin, affected by the stress of maltreatment can lead to aggressive behaviour. Those with high MAO-A are more likely to develop ASPD if they had experienced maltreatment than individuals with low activity of MAO-A

Question 18

What does research show about the low fear hypothesis and conditioning of psychopaths?

Answer 18

Psychopath who are high on egocentric callous and exploited dimension have low trait anxiety and show poor conditioning of fear. tests were conducted of skin responses anticipating unpleasant and painful events, failed to acquire many conditional reactions essential to avoidance of punishment

Question 19

Why are sociopaths so focused on reward?

Answer 19

According to fowles theory the behavioural activation system is thought to be possibly overactive. psychopathic defficient conditioning of anxiety is interrupted by the need for reward thus there is a difficulty in learning to inhibit responses and avoidance of punishment.