The Personality Disorders

Question 1

The executive function of the individual’s personality structure

Answer 1

Ego

Question 2

Geared to maintain balance between the individual’s internal drives and the external world

Answer 2

Defense mechanisms

Question 3

Defined as those emotional and behavioral traits that characterize day-to-day living under normative conditions; relatively predictable

Answer 3

Personality

Question 4

Where one’s behaviors, values, or feelings are seen as acceptable and consistent with the person’s personality and beliefs

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Ego-syntonic

Question 5

An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture, is pervasive and inflexible, and has an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, is stable over time, and leads to distress or impairment

Answer 5

Personality disorder

Question 6

The individual’s behavior is characterized by pervasive, groundless suspiciousness and an inherent distrust of others

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Paranoid personality disorder

Question 7

Where the person is obsessively concerned, defended, or watchful

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Hypervigilance

Question 8

People with ____display a lifelong pattern of social withdrawal; that is, they tend to be introverted and remain isolated from others by choice

Answer 8

Schizoid personality disorder

Question 9

Individuals with _____exhibit strikingly odd or strange mannerisms in addition to having a very active fantasy life

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Schizotypal personality disorder

Question 10

An irrational belief that one has powers that defy laws of nature and physics and thus can cause or prevent events

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Magical thinking

Question 11

Perceptual disturbances in which things appear differently from what they actually are in reality

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Illusions

Question 12

Loss of one’s sense of reality in the external world

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Derealization

Question 13

In which everything everyone else does somehow relates back to them

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Ideas of reference

Question 14

An inability to experience pleasure

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Anhedonia

Question 15

Characterized by continual asocial or criminal acts; but keep in mind that being____ is not necessarily synonymous with criminality

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Antisocial personality disorder

Question 16

A depressed mood that can brighten readily at a positive turn of events

Answer 16

Mood reactivity

Question 17

Often described as colorful, dramatic, extroverted, excitable, and emotional. Underneath this flamboyant presentation is a deep-seated inability to maintain strong, reciprocal, and long-lasting friendship

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Histrionic personality disorder

Question 18

A heightened sense of self-importance and unrealistic inflated self-worth, often disguising an underlying fragile sense of self, characterize the individual with______

Answer 18

Narcissistic personality disorder

Question 19

Someone who has ______avoids intimate and social contact with others.
People with this condition may be extremely shy, fear ridicule, and be overly concerned with looking foolish.

Answer 19

Avoidant personality disorder

Question 20

A pervasive pattern of extreme inability to act independently of others

Answer 20

Dependent personality disorder

Question 21

Individuals with _____do not have obsessions or compulsions in the same sense that they do in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD); rather, the energy of the person’s entire personality is channeled into perfectionism

Answer 21

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder