Exam 12: Personality Disorders and Impulse Control Disorders

Explain what impulse control disorders are, and briefly describe at least five types of impulse control disorders.

Provide a description of each of the Cluster B personality disorders. What are the common features shared by this cluster?

Which of the following is true of people with personality disorders?

Impulsive and unpredictable behavior that is self-destructive is a feature of ______ personality disorder.

Ted Bundy, a serial killer, is a classic example of someone with a(n) ______ personality disorder.

Identify the social-cognitive theorist who asserted that children learn aggressive behavior by observing the aggressive behavior of others, including aggression displayed on television.

Molly is a born actress. She is always the center of attention. She is highly dramatic, overemotional, self-centered, spoiled, and inconsiderate of her friends. While she can appear Charming, and is often flirtatious and seductive, she has no deep feelings toward anyone and Has never had a truly intimate relationship. She has poor self-esteem and tries to impress Others as a means of improving her own self-worth. She is most likely suffering from ______ Personality disorder.

Researchers suspect that the impulsive aggressive behaviors typical of some personality disorders may be related to deficiencies in ______.

Avoidant personality disorder is often comorbid (co-occurring) with _________.

The _____________ model depicts personality disorders as maladaptive and extreme variations of personality dimensions found within the general population.

Which of the following is true of kleptomania?

Murders that are not cold-blooded and are committed more by non-psychopathic criminals have been labeled ______.

Children under the age of 18 years who exhibit antisocial behavior patterns may be suffering from ______ disorder.

Explain how the construction of certain personality disorders may have sexist underpinnings. Does the diagnosis of dependent personality disorder unfairly stigmatize women who have been socialized into dependent roles by attaching to them a label of a personality disorder? Explain.

About ______ percent of women in the United States could be classified as having met the criteria for antisocial personality disorder at some point in their lives.

Rigid, inflexible, and maladaptive patterns of behavior or ways of relating to others, which ultimately become self-defeating because of their rigidity, are called ______ disorders.

The term that refers to personality traits that are perceived as a natural part of oneself is ______.

People with personality disorders tend to perceive their traits as ego dystonic-as not being natural parts of themselves.

People with antisocial personality disorder show ______ levels of anxiety when faced with threatening situations and punishment has ______effect on their behavior.

People with schizoid personality disorders tend to be socially ______.