Exam 12: Personality Disorders and Impulse Control Disorders

A strength of psychodynamic theory is that it is based largely on inferences drawn from behavior and retrospective accounts of adults rather than on observations of children.

Evidence that treatment with _________ has shown promise in treating impulsive aggression associated with IED.

Which of the following is true of people and aggressive behaviors?

According to Kernberg, children who fail to synthesize contradictory images of good and bad in themselves and others are likely to have tendencies toward ______.

Describe the unusual perceptions experienced by the person with schizotypal personality disorder.

Men are ______ likely than women to have antisocial personality disorder.

A dependent man might prefer to marry a(n) ______ wife.

Meg is a perfectionist. She is so preoccupied with perfection she almost never gets things done on time. She procrastinates and focuses so closely on trivial details that she often fails To see how the details fit into the bigger picture. Socially, she rarely goes out because she is Too busy working. She often won't make choices because she fears making the wrong choice. Meg's life is dominated by rigid expectations and goals. Meg is suffering from ______ Personality disorder.

Abnormalities in brain circuitry that connects the amygdala with the prefrontal cortex may help explain difficulties with ____that we see in many people with borderline personality and antisocial personality disorders.

A problem with the diagnosis of personality disorders is that they involve personality traits, which, in lesser degrees, describe the behavior of most normal individuals.

According to the textbook, research suggests that _________of people with personality disorders, such as antisocial, schizotypal, and borderline types, are more likely to be diagnosed with these disorders themselves than are members of the general population.

Which of the following is one of the psychological features of antisocial personality disorder listed in Cleckley's clinical profile?

Which personality disorders were the most frequently diagnosed in international populations through the International Personality Disorder Examination?

In which of the following personality disorders does research suggest genetic factors appear to play a role?

People with an obsessive-compulsive personality disorder and no anxiety disorder usually would ______.

Dependent personality is diagnosed more frequently in women than in men.

The emotions of people with schizoid personalities are as shallow or blunted as those of people with schizophrenia.

Schizotypal personality is believed to affect about ______ percent of the general population.

Avoidant personality disorder is ______ as common in men as in women.

Recent (post-Freudian) psychodynamic theories have focused on the age period of ______ as the time period when most personality disorders begin.