Exam 6: Personality

In Canada,comprehensive treatment for persons with personality disorders focuses on all of the following EXCEPT _________.

The DSM-5 includes all of the following changes EXCEPT __________.

The tendency to exaggerate your own importance usually means that you are narcissistic.

The eccentricity associated with schizoid personality is ________.

Dominic suffers from borderline personality disorder.His therapist tells him that his problem stems from a failure of separation-individuation while he was growing up.His therapist's conceptualization of the problem is most like that of ________.

Schizotypal personality is believed to affect about ________ % of the general population.

A study indicates that ________ can reduce aggressive behaviour and irritability in impulsive and aggressive individuals with personality disorders.

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

In one study,psychologists,social workers,and psychiatrists displayed gender bias when it came to diagnosing __________ personality disorder.

People who are so terrified of criticism or rejection that they are generally unwilling to enter relationships are suffering from ________ personality disorder.

Learning theorists tend to focus more on the acquisition of behaviours than on the notion of enduring personality traits.

Cognitive therapists have used problem-solving therapy to treat adolescents with ________ tendencies.

Which of the following is NOT a DSM-5 cluster A personality disorder?

According to Kohut,lack of parental empathy and support may set the stage for pathological ________ in adulthood.

According to Mahler,infants develop a(n)________ attachment to their mothers.

The conceptualization of certain types of personality disorders may be sexist.

People with conversion disorder are ________.

People with personality disorders tend to perceive their traits as ego dystonic.

Describe the features of borderline personality disorder.

The idea that borderline personality disorder stems from a pre-Oedipal failure to develop a sense of constancy and unity in one's image of the self and others was proposed by ________.