Random Flashcards
What are the 10 personality disorders?
Pope Steven Sondheim Asks Bob Hope Never to Avoid Dance O-Casions
Paranoid
Schizoid
Schizotypal
Antisocial
Borderline
Histrionic
Narcissistic
Avoidant
Dependant
Obsessive-Compulsive
Convergent validity
Refers to the degree to which two measures that should be related are in fact related
What is the complication or scar hypothesis?
The experience of mood disorders cause changes in personality.
What is the predisposition model? (Pathoplasty model)
The personality trials modify the expression of mood disorders
I’m mood disorders what is the vulnerability model?
The people with certain personality traits are more vulnerable to mood disorders
In mood disorders, what is the continuity hypothesis
That a mood disorder is an extreme but natural manifestation of personality traits
Anhedonia
The inability to experience joy
What is a high NA/N score and what does it predict?
Negative affectivity/Neuroticism
Low self-regard, pessimism, sensitivity to negative stimuli
Highly related to psychopathology particularly mood disorders.
What bio system is NA/N been related to?
Behaviour inhibition system “stop, look, listen”
Define proband
The family member whose possible genetic disorder formes the centre of an investigation into the extent to which it affects the family.
If Phill had kids and they were studying the kids it he would be the proband
Endogenous
Originating naturally within the body (endogenous opioids)
Autonomic arousal
Occurring without control
Physical Anxiety Symptoms
Rapid heartbeat
Hyperventilation
Etc
