Exam 6: Personality

Excessively rigid patterns of behaviour,or ways of relating to others,that ultimately become self-defeating because of their rigidity are called ________ disorders.

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

Discuss how a therapist would treat someone with a personality disorder using a behavioural approach.

Avoidant personality disorder may represent a milder form of social phobia.

Each of the following is true of people with personality disorders EXCEPT ________.

The behavioural approach system (BAS)__________.

"Psychopath" and "sociopath" refer to antisocial personality disorder.

The concept "splitting" is central to ________ psychodynamic theory of borderline personality.

People who are overly reliant on others to give them advice or make decisions for them are suffering from ________ personality disorder.

The antisocial behaviours of antisocial personality disorder may disappear by the time a person reaches age 40.

Family factors such as ________ have been implicated in the development of dependent personality disorder.

According to the family perspective,the key factor in the development of antisocial personality is ________.

Jeffrey Gray has woven the theories of Pavlov and Eysenck into what is now known as reinforcement _______ theory (RST).

The prevalence of antisocial personality disorder in Canada has been ________ for men and ________ for women.

According to Freud,proper resolution of the Oedipus complex is represented by the development of the ________.

Dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT)involves all of the following EXCEPT __________.

People with ego syntonic behaviour are prone to seek assistance for services.

Describe the features of schizotypal personality disorder.

According to the psychodynamic perspective,borderline personalities ________.

Rapid alterations between adulation and outrage would be interpreted by a psychoanalyst as __________.