Exam 12: Personality Disorders and Impulse Control Disorders

Discuss the two dimensions of antisocial personality disorder.

Histrionic personality disorder is diagnosed more frequently in men than in women.

In the DSM listing of personality disorder clusters, people who are perceived as odd or eccentric would be listed under cluster ______.

Using _________ terms, the DSM notes that people with personality disorders tend to perceive their traits as ego syntonic.

Investigators find higher rates of schizotypal disorder among African Americans than among Caucasians or Hispanic Americans.

Which of the following is a DSM cluster A personality disorder?

Sally cannot tolerate being alone. In an effort to avoid feelings of abandonment, she clings to her friends and becomes demanding, which results in her friends pulling away. Sally then feels Rejected and becomes enraged which strains her friendships even further. This is a common Pattern for people who have ______ personality disorder.

A person who lacks interest in social relationships and rarely experiences strong emotions has some of the characteristics of a ______ personality disorder.

How many people out of the general population are estimated to have avoidant personality disorder?

A certain amount of narcissism can represent a healthy adjustment to insecurity.

Kleptomania shares many common features with ______.

Unlike people with schizoid personalities, people with avoidant personalities have little or no interest in or feelings of warmth toward other people.

Brain imaging links borderline personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder to dysfunctions in parts of the brain involved in____________.

Freud believed that most personality disorders have their roots in the ______.

People we call psychopaths are psychotic.

There is a good deal of overlap between social anxiety disorder and ______ personality disorder.

A personality dimension and a behavioral dimension are the two components of ______ personality disorder.

Childhood abuse, parental neglect, or lack of parental nurturing have not proven to be important risk factors in the development of antisocial personality disorder in adulthood.

It is often difficult to draw the line between normal variations in behavior and personality disorders.

The underlying personality traits associated with antisocial personality disorder tend to ______.