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Personality Disorders Flashcards

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What does cluster B include?

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Antisocial

Borderline

Histronic

Narcissistic

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Which personality disorder is the following a key feature of?

“Excessive need to be taken care of, submissive behaviour and fears of separation”

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Dependent

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Definition

A cluster of dramatic, emotional and erratic personality disorder including borderline, narcissistic, histrionic and antisocial personality disorders

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Cluster B

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What are the DSM-5 criteria for dependent personality disorder?

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An excessive need to be taken care of, as shown by the presence of at least 5 of the following from early adulthood across many contexts:

  • Difficulty making decisions without excessive advice and reassurance from others
  • Need for others to take responsibility for most major areas of life
  • Difficulty disagreeing with others for fear of losing their support
  • Difficulty doing things on own or starting projects because of lack of self-confidence
  • Doing unpleasant things as a way to obtain the approval and support of others
  • Feelings of helplessness when alone because of fears of being unable to care for self
  • Urgently seeking new relationship when one ends
  • Preoccupation with fears of having to take care of self
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True or False:

Unstructured clinical interviews are reliable measures of personality disorders

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False

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Which personality disorder is the following a key feature of?

“Lack of capacity for close relationships, magical thinking or odd beliefs or speech, and eccentric behaviour”

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Schizotypal

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What does CBT target in personality disorders?

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Dysfunctional thoughts, emotions and behaviours

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Define

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

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personality disorder defined by inordinate difficulty making decisions, hyperconcern with details and efficiency, and poor relations with others due to demands that things be done just so, as wells as the person’s unduly conventional, serious, formal and stingy emotions

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Define

Cluster A

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A cluster of odd, eccentric personality disorders including paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders

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Definition

five personality dimensions included in the appendix of DSM-5 to help supplement diagnoses of personality disorders: negative affectivity, detachment, antagonism, disinhibition and psychoticism

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Personality trait domains

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Which personality disorder is this maladaptive cognition associated with?

“It is foolish to trust anyone”

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Paranoid

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Define

Paranoid personality disorder

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personality disorder defined by expectation of mistreatment at the hands of others, suspicion, secretiveness, jealousy, argumentativeness, unwillingness to accept blame, and cold unemotional affect

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What social risk factors increase the likelihood of someone with a genetic predisposition for APD getting the disorder?

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A harsh family environment and poverty

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How many personality disorders does the alternative model include?

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6

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What is distinct about the amygdala and the prefrontal cortex of people with BPD?

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Increased activity of the amygdala and diminished activity in the prefrontal cortex

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Define

Avoidant personality disorder

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personality disorder defined by aloofness and extreme sensitivity to potential rejection, despite an intense desire for affiliation and affection

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Definition

personality disorder define by overly dramatic behaviour, emotional excess and sexually provocative behaviour

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Histrionic personality disorder

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Definition

a therapeutic approach to borderline personality disorder that combines client-centred empathy and acceptance with behavioural problem solving, social skills training and limit setting

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Dialectical personality disorder (DBT)

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Define

Schizotypal personality disorder

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personality disorder defined by eccentricity, oddities of thought and perception (magical thinking, illusions, depersonalisation, derealisation), digressive speech involving over-elaborations and social isolation; under stress, behaviour may appear psychotic

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Which personality disorder is this maladaptive cognition associated with?

“Relationships are more hassle than reward”

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Schizotypal

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Biologically, what is BPD related to?

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Serotonergic dysfunction and biological risk factors for emotion dysregulation and impulsivity

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What are the DSM-5 criteria for obsessive-compulsive personality disorder?

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An intense need for order, perfection, and control, as shown by the presence of at least 4 of the following from early adulthood across many contexts:

  • Preoccupation with rules, details, and organization to the extent that the point of an activity is lost
  • Extreme perfectionism interferes with task completion
  • Excessive devotion to work to the exclusion of leisure and friendships
  • Inflexibility about morals and values
  • Difficulty discarding worthless items
  • Reluctance to delegate unless others conform to one’s standards
  • Miserliness
  • Rigidity and stubbornness
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What are the facets in the detachment personality trait domain?

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Anhedonia

Depressivity

Intimacy avoidance

Suspiciousness

Withdrawal

Restricted affectivity

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Definition

A cluster of anxious and fearful personality disorders including avoidant, dependent and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

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Cluster C

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Define

Personality disorder

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a group of disorder involving longstanding, inflexible and maladaptive personality traits that impair social and occupational functioning

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What are the facets in the negative affectivity personality trait domain?

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Anxiousness

Emotional lability

Hostility

Perseveration

Separation insecurity

Submissiveness

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Attachment trauma including tragic physical abuse or neglect, very early in life can do what in relation to personality disorders?

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Adversly affect the brain structure and development and can lead to development of antisocial personality disorder

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What are the facets in the antagonism personality trait domain?

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Attention seeking

Callousness

Deceitfulness

Grandiosity

Manipulativeness

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Which personality disorder is this maladaptive cognition associated with?

“I am not capable of making a decision without help and reassurance”

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Dependent

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Define

Dependent personality disorder

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personality disorder in which people are overly concerned about maintaining relationships. People with this disorder often allow others to make decisions for them and are reluctant to make demands that could challenge relationships

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What are the facets in the psychoticism personality trait domain?

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Eccentricity

Cognitive-perceptual dysregulation

Unusual beliefs and experiences

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What does Linehan’s model integrate?

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The high rates of parental invalidation reported by people with BPD with the biological diathesis for emotional dysregulation

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What are the DSM-5 criteria for borderline personality disorder?

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Five or more of the following signs of instability in relationships, self-image and impulsivity from early adulthood across many contexts:

  • Frantic efforts to avoid abandonment
  • Unstable interpersonal relationships in which others are either idealised or devalued
  • Unstable sense of self
  • Self-damaging, impulsive behaviours in at least two areas, such as spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving and binge eating
  • Recurrent suicidal behaviour, gestures or self-injurious behaviour
  • Marked mood reactivity
  • Chronic feelings of emptiness
  • Recurrent bouts of intense or poorly controlled anger
  • During stress, a tendency to experience transient paranoid thoughts and dissociative symptoms
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What are the DSM-5 criteria for paranoid personality disorder?

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Four or more of the following signs of distrust and suspiciousness from early adulthood across many contexts:

  • Unjustified suspiciousness of being harmed, deceived or exploited
  • Unwarranted doubts about the loyalty or trustworthiness of friends or associates
  • Reluctance to confide in others because of suspiciousness
  • The tendency to read hidden messages into the benign actions of others
  • Bears grudges for perceived wrongs
  • Angry reactions to perceived attacks on character or reputation
  • Unwarranted suspiciousness of the partner’s fidelity
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What does the self-psychology theory propose?

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Those with narcissistic personality disorder inflate their own self-worth to combat feelings of shame

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Which personality disorder is the following a key feature of?

“Excessive emotionality and attention seeking”

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Histronic

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Define

Dialectical personality disorder (DBT)

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a therapeutic approach to borderline personality disorder that combines client-centred empathy and acceptance with behavioural problem solving, social skills training and limit setting

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Which personality disorder is this maladaptive cognition associated with?

“If people get to know the real me, they will reject me”

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Avoidant

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True or False:

OCD and obsessive-compulsive PD are often comorbid

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True

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Which personality disorder is the following a key feature of?

“Social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation”

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Avoidant

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Define

Cluster B

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A cluster of dramatic, emotional and erratic personality disorder including borderline, narcissistic, histrionic and antisocial personality disorders

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Definition

personality disorder defined by expectation of mistreatment at the hands of others, suspicion, secretiveness, jealousy, argumentativeness, unwillingness to accept blame, and cold unemotional affect

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Paranoid personality disorder

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What are the three clusters of personality disorders?

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Cluster A: Odd and Eccentric

Cluster B: Dramatic and Emotional

Cluster C: Anxious and Fearful

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Which personality disorder is this maladaptive cognition associated with?

“People ask for exploitation - they let their guard down”

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Antisocial

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What does the social-cognitive theory of personality disorders propose?

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The behaviour of the person with narcissistic personality disorder is shaped by the goal of maintaining specialness and the belief that the purpose of interpersonal interactions is to bolster self-esteem

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Define

Personality trait facets

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twenty-five specific personality dimensions included in the appendix of DSM-5 to provide greater detail on the personality trait domains

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What are the DSM-5 criteria for narcissistic personality disorder?

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Presence of five or more of the follwing signs of grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of empathy from early adulthood across many contexts:

  • Grandiose view of one’s importance
  • Preoccupation with one’s success, brilliance or beauty
  • Belief that one is special and can be understood only by other high-status people
  • Extreme need for admiration
  • Strong sense of entitlement
  • Tendency to exploit others
  • Lack of empathy
  • Envious of others
  • Arrogant behaviours or attitudes
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Prospective research studies have identified which factors as predictive of antisocial behavior?

a) Peer rejection and divorce
b) Academic failure and peer avoidance
c) Poverty and exposure to violence
d) Having an incarcerated parent and poverty

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c) Poverty and exposure to violence

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Which personality disorder is this maladaptive cognition associated with?

“I know what’s best. If things get disorganised, horrible mistakes will happen”

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Obsessive-compulsive

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Unlike antisocial personality disorder, the criteria for psychopathy outlined in the Psychopathy Checklist-Revised do not require

a) affective symptoms such as lack of empathy.
b) onset of symptoms before the age of 15.
c) review by a mental health professional.
d) that the subject is a young male.

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b) onset of symptoms before the age of 15.

51
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Heinz Kohut developed a model of narcissism based on __________, a variant of psychodynamic theory.

a) social psychology
b) diathesis stress
c) object relations
d) self psychology

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d) self psychology

52
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People with borderline personality disorder show all of the following biological markers EXCEPT

a) deficits in the prefrontal cortex.
b) lower serotonin function.
c) decreased amygdala activation in emotionally-charged settings.
d) disrupted connectivity between the amygdala and prefrontal cortex.

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c) decreased amygdala activation in emotionally-charged settings.

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Definition

a personality syndrome related to antisocial personality disorder but defined by an absence of emotion, impulsivity, manipulativeness and irresponsibility

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Psychopathy

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What does psychopathy criteria focus on?

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Internal experiences (such as poverty of emotion) as well as observable behaviour

55
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Definition

personality disorder defined by the absence of concern for others’ feelings or social norms and a pervasive pattern of rule breaking

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Antisocial personality disorder (APD)

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Why should the treatment of BPD be done by a highly trained professional?

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There is a high risk of self-harm and suicide

57
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One issue in assessing personality disorders is whether people can accurately describe their own

a) histories.
b) personalities.
c) diagnosis.
d) treatment.

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b) personalities.

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In treating schizotypal personality disorder, research shows which of the following methods to be effective?

a) Psychodynamic therapy
b) Cognitive therapy
c) Dialectical behavior therapy
d) Antipsychotic medications

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d) Antipsychotic medications

59
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Which personality disorder is the following a key feature of?

“Instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image and affect, as well as marked impulsivity”

A

Borderline

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What are the DSM-5 criteria for avoidant personality disorder?

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A pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feeling of inadequacy and hypersensitivity to criticism as shown by 4 or more of the following from early adulthood across many contexts:

  • Avoidance of occupational activities that involve significant interpersonal contact, because of fears of criticism or disapproval
  • Unwilling to get involved with people unless certain of being liked
  • Restrained in intimate relationships because of the fear of being shamed or ridiculed
  • Preoccupation with being criticised or rejected
  • Inhibited in new interpersonal situations because of feelings of inadequacy
  • Views self as socially inept, unappealing or inferior
  • Unusually reluctant to try new activities because they may prove embarrassing
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Definition

a group of disorder involving longstanding, inflexible and maladaptive personality traits that impair social and occupational functioning

A

Personality disorder

62
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What therapies can be used to treat personality disorders?

A

CBT

Psychodynamic psychotherapy

Schema therapy

Dialectic behavioural therapy

Interpersonal therapy

63
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Melissa is seeing a therapist for treatment of obsessive compulsive personality disorder. The therapist is helping her examine her assumptions, such as that she is only worthwhile when she can successfully complete 100% of her daily goals, and how these assumptions can be shifted to more flexible ones. Her therapist is probably using which approach?

a) Psychodynamic
b) Family systems
c) Cognitive behavioral
d) Neuropsychological

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c) Cognitive behavioral

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Definition

personality disorder defined by emotional aloofness; indifference to the praise, criticism and feelings of others; maintenance of few, if any, close friendships; and solitary interests

A

Schizoid personality disorder

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Which personality disorder is the following a key feature of?

“Disregard for an violation of the rights of others”

A

Antisocial

66
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What does cluster C include?

A

Avoidant

Dependent

Obsessive-compulsive

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In Cleckley’s description, one of the key characteristics of psychopathy is poverty of

a) positive and negative emotions.
b) positive emotions.
c) empathy.
d) rational thought.

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a) positive and negative emotions.

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Definition

twenty-five specific personality dimensions included in the appendix of DSM-5 to provide greater detail on the personality trait domains

A

Personality trait facets

69
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Which personality disorder is the following a key feature of?

“Preoccupation with order, perfection and control”

A

Obsessive-compulsive

70
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Which personality disorder is this maladaptive cognition associated with?

“I am better than others and people who can’t understand that don’t deserve my time”

A

Narcissistic

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What are the DSM-5 criteria for schizotypal personality disorder?

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Five or more of the following signs of unusual thining, eccentric behaviour and interpersonal deficits from early adulthood across many contexts:

  • Ideas of reference
  • Odd beliefs or magical thinking, for example, belief in extrasensory perception
  • Unusual perceptions
  • Odd thought and speech
  • Suspiciousness or paranoia
  • Inappropriate or restricted affect
  • Odd or eccentric behaviour or appearance
  • Lack of close friends
  • Social anxiety and interpersonal fears that do not diminish with familiarity
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True or False:

Both genetics and environmental factors contribute to the development of personality disorers

A

True

73
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Lack of what may drive the misconduct without regret as seen in psychopathy?

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Lack of anxiety and empathy

74
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Definition

A cluster of odd, eccentric personality disorders including paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders

A

Cluster A

75
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Which personality disorder is the following a key feature of?

“Distrust and suspiciousness of others”

A

Paranoid

76
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What environmental factors are significantly correlated with 6 out of the 10 personality disorders?

A

Childhood abuse or neglect

77
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What serves as a protective factor against personality disorders when negative environmental adversities have occurred?

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Warm, strong, supportive relationship in the child’s life

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Definition

personality disorder defined by inordinate difficulty making decisions, hyperconcern with details and efficiency, and poor relations with others due to demands that things be done just so, as wells as the person’s unduly conventional, serious, formal and stingy emotions

A

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

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Definition

personality disorder in which people are overly concerned about maintaining relationships. People with this disorder often allow others to make decisions for them and are reluctant to make demands that could challenge relationships

A

Dependent personality disorder

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What are the DSM-5 criteria for histronic personality disorder?

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Five or more of the following signs of excessive emotionality and attention seeking from early adulthood across many contexts:

  • Strong need to be the centre of attention
  • Inappropriate sexually seductive behaviour
  • Rapidly shifting and shallow expression of emotions
  • Use of physical appearance to draw attention to self
  • Speech that is excessively impressionistic and lacking in detail
  • Exaggerated, theatrical emotional expression
  • Overly suggestible
  • Misreads relationships as more intimate than they are
81
Q

Which personality disorder is the following a key feature of?

“Grandiosity, need for admiration and lack of attention”

A

Narcissistic

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Definition

personality disorder defined by extreme selfishness and self-centredness; a grandiose view of one’s uniqueness, achievements and talents; an insatiable craving for admiration and approval from others; willingness to exploit others to achieve goals; and expectation of much more from others that one is willing to give in return

A

Narcissistic personality disorder

83
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Definition

personality disorder defined by aloofness and extreme sensitivity to potential rejection, despite an intense desire for affiliation and affection

A

Avoidant personality disorder

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Define

Cluster C

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A cluster of anxious and fearful personality disorders including avoidant, dependent and obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

85
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Which personality disorder is the following a key feature of?

“Detachment from social relationships and restricted range of emotional expression”

A

Schizoid

86
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What does cluster A include?

A

Paranoid

Schizoid

Schizotypal

87
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Which personality disorder is this maladaptive cognition associated with?

“People are there to admire me”

A

Histronic

88
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What disorder is a more chronic version of social anxiety disorder?

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Avoidant PD

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What are the DSM-5 criteria for schizoid personality disorder?

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Four or more of the following signs of aloofness and flat affect from early adulthood across many contexts:

  • Lack of desire for or enjoyment of close relationships
  • Almost always prefers solitude to companionship
  • Little interest in sex
  • Few or no pleasurable activities
  • Lack of friends
  • Indifference to praise or criticism
  • Flat affect, emotional detachment or coldness
90
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Define

Narcissistic personality disorder

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personality disorder defined by extreme selfishness and self-centredness; a grandiose view of one’s uniqueness, achievements and talents; an insatiable craving for admiration and approval from others; willingness to exploit others to achieve goals; and expectation of much more from others that one is willing to give in return

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Define

Antisocial personality disorder (APD)

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personality disorder defined by the absence of concern for others’ feelings or social norms and a pervasive pattern of rule breaking

92
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In which setting can personality disorders be reliably assessed?

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Structured clinical interviews

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What are the DSM-5 criteria for antisocial personality disorder?

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  • Aged at least 18
  • Display evidence of conduct disorder before age 15
  • Display a pervasive pattern of disregard for the rights of others from the age of 15 as shown by at least 3 of the following:
    1. Repeated law breaking
    2. Deceitfulness, lying
    3. Impulsivity
    4. Irritability and aggressiveness
    5. Reckless disregard for own safety and that of others
    6. Irresponsibility as seen in unreliable employment or financial history
    7. Lack of remorse
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What are the two main concerns that have emerged about the DSM-5 personality disorder approach?

A
  • The personality disorders are not stable over time
  • Substantial overlap between personality disorders
95
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How do people with dependent PD often describe their parents?

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Both overprotective and authoritarian

96
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Which personality disorder is related to schizophrenia?

A

Schizotypal

97
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Who proposed that borderline personality disorder develops when people who have difficulty controlling their emotions because of a biological diathesis are raised in a family environment that is invalidating?

a) Otto Kernberg
b) Carl Jung
c) Albert Ellis
d) Marsha Linehan

A

d) Marsha Linehan

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Define

Schizoid personality disorder

A

personality disorder defined by emotional aloofness; indifference to the praise, criticism and feelings of others; maintenance of few, if any, close friendships; and solitary interests

99
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Define

Histrionic personality disorder

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personality disorder define by overly dramatic behaviour, emotional excess and sexually provocative behaviour

100
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Definition

personality disorder characterised by impulsiveness and unpredictability, an uncertain self-image, intense and unstable social relationships, and extreme swings of mood

A

Borderline personality disorder (BPD)

101
Q

Research suggests that about __________ percent of people diagnosed with a personality disorder meet the diagnostic criteria for another personality disorder.

a) 25
b) 50
c) 35
d) 15

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b) 50

102
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People with __________ personality disorder do not desire or enjoy social relationships, usually have no close friends, appear dull, rarely experience strong emotions and are indifferent to praise, or criticism.

a) narcissistic
b) schizotypal
c) schizoid
d) avoidant

A

c) schizoid

103
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What are the facets in the disinhibition personality trait domain?

A

Distractability

Impulsivity

Irresponsibility

(Lack of) rigid perfectionism

Risk taking

104
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Define

Borderline personality disorder (BPD)

A

personality disorder characterised by impulsiveness and unpredictability, an uncertain self-image, intense and unstable social relationships, and extreme swings of mood

105
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What are the negative consequence of personality disorders?

A

Development of addictive behaviours, social isolation and even physical health cormorbidities

106
Q

How long does treatment for personality disorders last?

A

Longer than 1-2 years

107
Q

What are the comorbid conditions that people with personality disorders often have?

A

Depression

Anxiety

Substance-use disorders

Other personality disorder

108
Q

True or False:

Antisocial personality disorder is the diagnostic name for psychopathy

A

False

They are related but they differ

109
Q

Linehan’s theory of borderline personality disorder focuses on which two main factors?

a) Invalidation and history of abuse
b) Emotional dysregulation and social withdrawal
c) Emotional dysregulation and invalidation
d) Family history of abuse and genetic risk factors

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c) Emotional dysregulation and invalidation

110
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Define

Personality trait domains

A

five personality dimensions included in the appendix of DSM-5 to help supplement diagnoses of personality disorders: negative affectivity, detachment, antagonism, disinhibition and psychoticism

111
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Define

Psychopathy

A

a personality syndrome related to antisocial personality disorder but defined by an absence of emotion, impulsivity, manipulativeness and irresponsibility

112
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Definition

personality disorder defined by eccentricity, oddities of thought and perception (magical thinking, illusions, depersonalisation, derealisation), digressive speech involving over-elaborations and social isolation; under stress, behaviour may appear psychotic

A

Schizotypal personality disorder

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What does the alternative model to diagnosing personality disorders include?

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A dimensional system for evaluating five personality trait domains and 25 more specific personality facets

PSY3032 (13 decks)

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