Exam 13: Personality Disorders

According to John Livesley from the University of British Columbia there are three types of life tasks that are important and failure with any one of these tasks warrants a personality disorder diagnosis. Which of the following is not one of the three tasks?

What are the main components of Linehan's dialectical behaviour therapy for borderline personality disorder? Why are they thought to work?

Stephen Porter and colleagues of Dalhousie University (2009) have recently revealed that incarcerated psychopaths, as compared to non-psychopaths, were 2.5 times:

Compared to normals, the skin conductance of psychopaths is __________________ when they are confronted with an intense or aversive stimulus.

Personality disorders differ from normal personality traits by:

The key distinguishing feature between antisocial personality disorder and psychopathy is how people experience emotion.

Joelle, a 30-year-old female from Quebec City recently killed herself using prescription drugs. Prior to this last fatal attempt, Joelle had tried to commit suicide on six other occasions. At the time of her death, Joelle was most likely diagnosed with which personality disorder?

Compared to normal people, the personalities of people with personality disorders are:

The Psychopathy Checklist - Revised (PCL-R; Hare, 1991) has been criticized because it fails to assess the tendency for psychopathy to be characterized by:

A new scale was developed for the proposed changes to personality disorders in DSM-5. Two dimensions emerged that were different from the five-factor model. They are:

Social phobia is most similar to which personality disorder?

Do people usually seek treatment for personality disorders? Explain why and when they do or do not seek treatment.

Karl relies on his wife to make every decision, from what kind of suits he should buy to which people at work he should get to know better. He feels that he must rely heavily on his wife because he feels he is not competent to carry out these tasks. Which of the following personality disorders would fit Karl?

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPd) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

How stable are personality disorders?

Personality disorders can be assessed using questionnaires and clinical interviews. Which method is more effective? Why?

Studies of skin conductance response to distress stimuli in psychopathic men show ___________ responsiveness, which is thought to reflect______________

Self-report measures of personality disorders:

A person with which of the following diagnoses is most likely to also have a mood disorder?

Personality disorders are defined as: