Personality Disorders

Question 1

____________ is defined in terms of consistency in patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that are pervasive across all life domains and enduring over time.

Answer 1

Personality

Question 2

What are the 5 personality traits?

Answer 2

Neuroticisim, openness to experience, extroversion, conscientiousness and agreeableness

Question 3

What does OCEAN stand for?

Answer 3

openness
conscientiousness 
extroversion
agreeableness
neuroticisim

Question 4

_________ _________ 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….

Answer 4

Functional inflexibility

Question 5

_____-_______ _________ of ________ are typical ways of responding or coping that worsen the current situation or are highly damaging to the person involved.

Answer 5

Self-defeating patterns of behaviour

Question 6

People with personality disorders are known to struggle when faced with ______ ______. Their moods, thinking and behaviours are unstable during the challenging events.

Answer 6

Stressful situations

Question 7

The ____ gene metabolites neurotransmitters such as noradrenaline, serotonin and dopamine, which influence thoughts, feelings and behaviours

Answer 7

MAOA (monomine oxidase A) gene

Question 8

Livesley and colleagues (1998) proposed the __ factor model of personality and personality disorder.

Answer 8

18

Question 9

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)

Answer 9

Livesley’s 18 factor model

Question 10

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.

Answer 10

Beck’s Cognitve Model

Question 11

Young’s model identifies __ schemas?

Answer 11

18

Question 12

The tendency for schemas to be strengthened over time, according to Young, is called?

Answer 12

Schema perpetuation

Question 13

According to Young, ________ _________ refers to the individual accepting the truth of the schema and behaving in consistent ways

Answer 13

Schema surrender

Question 14

The coping style of ______ ________ involves blocking features of the schema through activities such as, substance abuse. (Young)

Answer 14

Schema avoidance

Question 15

Schema _______________ involves reacting against the schema by embodying its polar opposite.

Answer 15

Overcompensation

Question 16

A psychological treatment developed by Jeffrey Young, which helps clients change their early maladaptive schemas…

Answer 16

Schema therapy

Question 17

When a child is exposed to deprecation, neglect and physical or emotional abuse, Linehan’s model refers to this as..?

Answer 17

Drastically invalidating environments

Question 18

Whos model is integrated with the behavioural theory’s of Zen Buddhism?

Answer 18

Linehan’s Biological model and Dialectical therapy theory (1993)

Question 19

What does the term ‘dialectic’ refer to?

Answer 19

The integration of opposing elements in thinking and behaving.

Question 20

Name an integrative approach that links concepts from cognitive psychology, with those from the object-relations approach that developed from psychoanalytic theory.

Answer 20

Cognitive analytic therapy

Question 21

The somatic marker hypothesis proposes..?

Answer 21

A mechanism by which emotional process can guide decision making. People form associations between emotions and behaviour during their experience of the environment