Personality Disorders Flashcards
____________ is defined in terms of consistency in patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that are pervasive across all life domains and enduring over time.
Personality
What are the 5 personality traits?
Neuroticisim, openness to experience, extroversion, conscientiousness and agreeableness
What does OCEAN stand for?
openness conscientiousness extroversion agreeableness neuroticisim
_________ _________ refers to a failure to adapt to adapt to changing and varied life experiences and is characterised by the tenancy to rigidly apply a range of behavioural strategies….
Functional inflexibility
_____-_______ _________ of ________ are typical ways of responding or coping that worsen the current situation or are highly damaging to the person involved.
Self-defeating patterns of behaviour
People with personality disorders are known to struggle when faced with ______ ______. Their moods, thinking and behaviours are unstable during the challenging events.
Stressful situations
The ____ gene metabolites neurotransmitters such as noradrenaline, serotonin and dopamine, which influence thoughts, feelings and behaviours
MAOA (monomine oxidase A) gene
Livesley and colleagues (1998) proposed the __ factor model of personality and personality disorder.
18
Which model includes high order factors consisting of, emotional dysregulation, inhibitedness, compulsivity and dissocial behaviour? (like the 5 factor model, but not including ‘openness to experience)
Livesley’s 18 factor model
Which model relies on two key premises of; First, each personality disorder is thought to be characterised by maladaptive core beliefs. Second, these beliefs influence the processing of social information in such way as to maintain the persons dysfunctional beliefs.
Beck’s Cognitve Model
Young’s model identifies __ schemas?
18
The tendency for schemas to be strengthened over time, according to Young, is called?
Schema perpetuation
According to Young, ________ _________ refers to the individual accepting the truth of the schema and behaving in consistent ways
Schema surrender
The coping style of ______ ________ involves blocking features of the schema through activities such as, substance abuse. (Young)
Schema avoidance
Schema _______________ involves reacting against the schema by embodying its polar opposite.
Overcompensation
A psychological treatment developed by Jeffrey Young, which helps clients change their early maladaptive schemas…
Schema therapy
When a child is exposed to deprecation, neglect and physical or emotional abuse, Linehan’s model refers to this as..?
Drastically invalidating environments
Whos model is integrated with the behavioural theory’s of Zen Buddhism?
Linehan’s Biological model and Dialectical therapy theory (1993)
What does the term ‘dialectic’ refer to?
The integration of opposing elements in thinking and behaving.
Name an integrative approach that links concepts from cognitive psychology, with those from the object-relations approach that developed from psychoanalytic theory.
Cognitive analytic therapy
The somatic marker hypothesis proposes..?
A mechanism by which emotional process can guide decision making. People form associations between emotions and behaviour during their experience of the environment
