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Abnormal Psych Final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Personality? | a stable and enduring pattern of relating to oneself to the world. |
| Trait theorists assume that personality is made of a collection of what? | psychological traits, such as kindness or dependability, which can be identified and measured. |
| Factor analysis? | mathematical technique to analyze a matrix of correlation to reduce dimensions and identify factors that may simplify and explain the relationships. |
| Eysenck and Eysenck (1969) summarized a 3-factor model, arguing that personality consisted of various amounts of what? | neuroticism (the tendency to experience negative emotions), extroversion (outgoingness and social gregariousness), and psychoticism (anger and aggression). |
| Big five? | dimensional model of personality that emphasizes the mixture of five main factors: openness to experience, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism. |
| Personality disorders? | enduring and inflexible patterns of thinking and behaving that cause distress either for the person or for other people. |
| Personality disorders involve? | disturbances in a combination of areas of global functioning- including mood, cognition, social interactions, and control of impulses. |
| Comorbidity? | co-occurence of two or more diagnoses. |
| Personality disorder symptoms are best treated by what? | atypical antipsychotic dugs, while SSRIs are most readily prescribed for those in clusters B and C. |
| Personality disorders: Cluster A? | involve symptoms that are described as odd or eccentric. |
| Cluster A personality disorders? | paranoid personality disorder, schizoid personality disorder, schizotypal personality disorder. |
| Ideas of reference? | false interpretation of events in terms of special meaning for the self. |
| Personality disorders: Cluster B? | involve symptom presentations that may be dramatic, emotional, or erratic. |
| Cluster B personality disorders? | antisocial personality disorder, borderline personality disorder, histrionic personality disorder, narcissistic personality disorder. |
| The main components of cluster B personality disorders are? | impulsivity, aggressiveness, and novelty-seeking. |
| Psychopath? | antisocial personality, involving characteristics such as lack of empathy or concern for others, frequent rule violations, impulsivity, and superficial charm. |
| Six characteristics that represent a psychopath? | lack of conscience or feelings of remorse, impulsivity; inability to delay gratification, inability to profit from mistakes, lack of emotional ties to other people, stimulus seeking, and ability to make a good impression on others. |
| Antisocial personality disorders run in what? | families, and the relatives of females with the condition are at higher risk than are the relatives of antisocial males. |
| Environmental influences for antisocial personality disorder are? | parental abuse, neglect, deficient parenting practices, and inept discipline techniques, all of which can be associated with having antisocial parents. |
| Unstable relationships and emotions characterize what? | borderline personality disorder. |
| People with borderline personality disorder can? | show dramatic shifts in the way they regard others, from excessive idealization to nearly complete devaluation, over brief time periods. |
| People with borderline personality disorder experience? | chronic feelings of emptiness while their active emotions are very unstable, commonly including anger, guilt, shame, bitterness, and despair. |
| People with what disorder will often shift career plans, life goals, or friends? | borderline personality disorder. |
| Dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)? | a complex and eclectic mix of group and individual sessions dealing with interpersonal skills, emotional regulation, problem solving, acceptance, and goal-setting was effective in reducing some symptoms for borderline personality. |
| Pharmacology for borderline personality disorder? | antidepressants such as the SSRIs and anti-manic drugs such as lithium; some studies have reported less solid support for antipsychotic or anti-seizure medications to assist with psychotic symptoms and mood stabilization. |
| Histrionic personality disorder? | excessive emotionality and attention seeking. |
| Someone with what disorder may assume either a "victim" or a "princess" role in relating to others. | histrionic personality disorder. |
| Persons showing histrionic personality disorder desire to be what? | the center of the attention and act in dramatic ways to bring that about, through both behavioral intensity and physical appearance. |
| People with histrionic personality disorder may be what? | seductive, manipulative, and theatrical in presentation although they are also quite dependent. |
| Treatment for histrionic personality disorder? | target interpersonal relationships, social skills, and attention seeking. Hypnosis or placebo treatments that include some level of clinical intensity may be more acceptable to these clients. |
| Narcissistic personality disorder? | is self-centered and require the admiration of others. They exaggerate their own self-importance and are preoccupied with fantasies about their own success, brilliance, or beauty. |
| Narcissistic personality disorder people are described as what? | arrogant, conceited, elitist, and grandiose and can be contemptuous of others. |
| Even though they are preoccupied with self importance people with narcissistic personality disorder are? | very fragile and have low self-esteem; criticism may hurt them greatly, leaving them empty and humiliated and primed to counter-attack but also susceptible to depression. |
| Narcissistic personality disorder people tend to avoid what? | competitions that they may lose. |
| Unlike obsessive-compulsive disorder those with obsessive-compulsive personality disorder are? | not particularly distressed by their condition. |
| Dr. Brown believes that personality is a collection of psychological characteristics, such as kindness or dependability, which can be identified and measured. She would be best described as a? | trait theorist. |
| The DSM-IV-TR lists _____ different personality disorders? | ten. |
| ______ Personality Disorders tend to present symptoms that observers consider odd, or eccentric. | Cluster A. |
| Personality disorders are difficult to treat because of all the following reasons EXCEPT: | their medical basis. |
| Which of the following personality disordered individuals would have recurrent suspicions, without justification, regarding the fidelity of a spouse or sexual partner? | Paranoid personality disorder. |
| People with _____ find close relationships uncomfortable and usually do not have close friends. | Schizotypal personality disorder. |
| Only a small percentage individuals initially diagnosed with Schizotypal Personality Disorder go on to develop ________. | schizophrenia. |
| The Cluster B personality disorders, as a group, affect about _____ percent of the general population. | 1.5. |
| One characteristic of Antisocial Personality is _______ as these individuals frequently talk their way out of difficult situations and may "con" others of their good intentions for the future. | the ability to make a good impression on others. |
| Of those diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder, ______ are female. | 75%. |
| Frank believes he is more important than he really is. He has grandiose sense of self-importance, is preoccupied with fantasies about his own success and brilliance. What disorder? | narcissistic personality disorder. |
| In general population, ______ display at least one of the cluster C personality disorders. | 6%. |
| Sally has an excessive need to be taken care of by her husband. She will not make any everyday decisions for herself and will not initiate any tasks or projects on her without approval from her husband. What disorder? | dependent personality disorder. |
| The use of written materials that may have life significance is called? | bibliotherapy. |
| This personality disorder addresses a long-standing pattern of depressive cognitions, gloominess, pessimism, and low self-esteem that causes distress or impairment in daily functioning. | depressive personality disorder. |
| Psychoactive? | altering mood, perception, or brain function. |
| Analgesic? | a drug that reduces pain. |
| Tolerance? | need for increasing amounts of a substance to have the desired effect. |
| Withdrawal? | a specific psychological and physiological to discontinuation of a substance. |
| Intoxication? | a reversible change in behavior and cognition following ingestion of a substance. |
| Fetal alcohol syndrome? | constellation of fetal abnormalities resulting from maternal alcohol use during pregnancy. |
| Stimulants? | drugs that stimulate the CNS and produce wakefulness,alertness, and ability to concentrate. |
| Hallucinogens? | drugs that produce marked changes in perception. |
| Flashbacks? | re-experience of some of the symptoms of intoxication, in the absence of recent ingestion. |
| Narcotics? | opiate drugs that produce stupor and pain relief. |
| Depressants? | drugs the depress the CNS and produce drowsiness and sedation. |
| ______ is a need for increasing amounts of a substance in order to have the desired effect. | tolerance. |
| An ______ drug is chemical that acts on the same receptors and, in effect, substitutes for the drug. | agonist. |
| Negative consequences of the repeated use are a component of the DSM-IV-TR diagnosis of _____. | substance abuse. |
| When Brett decided to quit taking pain medication as part of his rehab program, he began to experience substance ______ due to the cessation of painkiller, as he took these for over three years daily. | withdrawal. |
| The "pleasure pathway" is another name for the _________. | mesocorticolimbic dopamine pathway. |
| Tolerance is stronger, and withdrawal symptoms are more evident, in __________. | those who self-adminsiter the drug. |
| Jerry failed his breathalyzer test as his blood alcohol concentration level was over the legal intoxication level of _________. | 0.08% g/100MI |
| In confabulation ____________. | gaps in memory are filled with imaginary happenings. |
| These substances initially found their way into approved medical use as the active ingredients in nasal decongestant inhalers? | amphetamines. |
| Nearly _______ of Americans have ingested a cannabinoid at some point. | one-third. |
| The DSM-IV-TR induced disorder of ______ involves the re-experiencing of some of the symptoms of hallucinogen intoxication, in the absence of recent ingestion, in episodes that can last several months. | hallucinogen intoxication-no precipitating factors. |
| Opiates produce stupor and pain relief and depress that _____ nervous system. | central. |
| _______ are chemicals that block receptor sites for other substances, while _____ are chemicals that can substitute for other substances at receptor sites. | antagonists, agonists. |
| Alcoholics Anonymous was formed by two men looking to overcome their alcoholism in _______. | 1935. |
| _________ is the tendency of an abstainer to relapse completely after a minor transgression. | the abstinence violation effect. |
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