Quiz 1.3

Question 1

What does it mean to have ASPD?

Answer 1

To have extreme disregard for others and to violate the rights of others

Question 2

What are atavistic anomalies?

Answer 2

Physical characteristics that were typical of distant ancestors

Question 3

What does it mean to have APD?

Answer 3

• Relationship problems
• Social inhibition
• Feelings of inadequacy
• Hypersensitivity to criticism

Question 4

What does it mean to have BPD?

Answer 4

• Instability in interpersonal relationships and self-image
• Extreme impulsivity

Question 5

What is the Brawner Rule?

Answer 5

• aka “Substantial Capacity Test”
• Used to test for legal insanity

Question 6

What is does it mean to be insane?

Answer 6

• Legal term
• A person is not responsible for his or her criminal actions if it resulted from mental disease or defect that makes the person unable to understand the wrongfulness of the crime and/or unable to conform his or her conduct to the requirements of the law

Question 7

What is a catathymic crisis?

Answer 7

A person has underlying emotionally-charged conflicts that lead to the development of a fixed idea that he or she must kill a future victim

Question 8

Who was Cesare Lombroso?

Answer 8

The father of criminology

Question 9

What does it mean to have DPD?

Answer 9

• Relationship problems
• A need to be cared for
• Fear of abandonment
• Submissive and clingy behavior

Question 10

What are dissociative disorders?

Answer 10

Disorders that include abrupt and temporary changes in consciousness, identity, and motor activity

Question 11

What is the Durham Rule?

Answer 11

• aka “Products Test”
• Used to test for insanity
• Accused individual is not criminally responsible if his or her offense was the product of mental disease or defect

Question 12

What does it mean to be “guilty but insane”?

Answer 12

A type of plea in which offenders are confined to psychiatric facilities until their mental state shows improvement, followed by prison incarceration

Question 13

What does it mean to have HPD?

Answer 13

• Grandiosity
• Egocentricity
• Excessive emotionality
• Attention seeking

Question 14

What is iatrogenic?

Answer 14

When clinicians/practitioners are responsible for a disorder’s occurrence

Question 15

What is hypoglycemia?

Answer 15

A state of low blood sugar that affects brain functioning

Question 16

What is latent delinquency?

Answer 16

A state in which a youth:

• Constantly seeks immediate gratification while neglecting the feelings and/or needs of others
• Has lack of remorse or sense of guilt in satisfying his or her desires

Question 17

What does it mean to have NPD?

Answer 17

To be self-absorbed, grandiose, have a need for praise, and lacking of empathy

Question 18

What does it mean to have OCD?

Answer 18

• A preoccupation with orderliness
• A preoccupation with perfectionism
• A preoccupation with having mental/interpersonal control
• Inflexible/inefficient behaviors

Question 19

What is paranoia?

Answer 19

A pervasive distrust and suspiciousness of others

Question 20

What does it mean to be “personality disorder trait specified”?

Answer 20

(DSM-V)
- Someone whose traits significantly impair his and hers daily functioning

Question 21

What does it mean to have Schizoid PD?

Answer 21

• A pervasive pattern of detachment from relationships
• Aloofness–such as limited expression of emotions

Question 22

What does it mean to have Schizotypal PD?

Answer 22

• Social and interpersonal deficits
• Eccentric behaviors that inhibit the development of close relationships

Question 23

What is serotonin?

Answer 23

• A chemical that inhibits the release of stomach acid
• Stimulates smooth muscle
• Acts as neurotransmitter in brain functioning

Question 24

What is Social Communication Disorder?

Answer 24

• Non-autistic disorder
• Problems in communication
• Problems in social responsiveness
• Problems in social relationships

Question 25

What is incompetency?

Answer 25

• State of mind at the time of a crime that makes an offender unable to stand trial
• Inability to stand trial results in the admission into a psychiatric institution until he or she is considered to be competent, which is when a trial can commence

Question 26

What is the M’Naughten Rule?

Answer 26

• Rule used to define insanity
• Requires it to be proven that at the time of a crime that the offender was under such influence by defect in reasoning as a result of a mental disease

Question 27

What is a personality disorder?

Answer 27

An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates from the expectations of one’s culture

Question 28

What was a phrenologist?

Answer 28

Someone that believed to be able to detect disposition to criminality by examining bumps and abnormalities on the skull’s surface

Question 29

What is Prozac?

Answer 29

A serotonin booster and antidepressant to control mood and behavior

Question 30

What is a psychopath?

Answer 30

• Non-diagnostic label
• Used to describe a mixture of individuals that are determined by societal standards to possess traits that vary with general community standards and practices

Question 31

What is reaction-formation?

Answer 31

A double life within which people live in response to unresolved personal conflicts

Question 32

What is “switching” in DID?

Answer 32

A transition that can occur from one subpersonality to another