Personality Disorders

Question 1

Paranoid, Schizoid, and Schizotypal are classified as what cluster of disorders?

Answer 1

Cluster A

Question 2

Antisocial, boarderline, histronic, and narcissistic are classified as what cluster of disorders?

Answer 2

Cluster B

Question 3

Avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive are what cluster of disorders?

Answer 3

Cluster C

Question 4

What type of disorders are characterized by behavior that deviates from the individual’s culture, is pervasive, and inflexible, has an onset in adolescence, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment?

Answer 4

Personality Disorder

Question 5

The personality disorders are grouped into three clusters based on descriptive similarities. What group contains odd or eccentric behavior?

Answer 5

Group A

Question 6

The personality disorders are grouped into three clusters based on descriptive similarities. What group contains dramatic, emotional, or erratic behaviors?

Answer 6

Group B

Question 7

The personality disorders are grouped into three clusters based on descriptive similarities. What group contains anxious and fearful behavior?

Answer 7

Group C

Question 8

Pattern of distrust and suspiciousness such that other’s motivates are interpreted as malevolent?

Answer 8

Paranoid personality disorder

Question 9

Pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of emotional expression?

Answer 9

Schizoid personality disorder

Question 10

Pattern of acute discomfort in close relationships, cognitive or perceptual distortions, and eccentricities of behavior?

Answer 10

Schizotypal personality disorder

Question 11

Pattern of disregard for and violation of right of others.

Answer 11

Antisocial personality disorder

Question 12

Borderline is a pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity.

Answer 12

Borderline PD

Question 13

Pattern of excessive emotionally and attention seeking.

Answer 13

Histrionic PD

Question 14

Pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy.

Answer 14

Narcissistic PD

Question 15

Pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation.

Answer 15

Avoidant PD

Question 16

Pattern of submissive and clinging behavior related to an excessive need to be taken care of.

Answer 16

Dependent PD

Question 17

Pattern of preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control.

Answer 17

Obsessive-compulsive PD

Question 18

Persistent personality disturbance that is judged to be due to direct physiological effects of medical condition.

Answer 18

Personality change due to another medical condition