Abnormal Psychology Final Exam Review

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The social isolation, eccentricity, peculiar comminication, and poor social adaptation that come with _______ personality disorder place it within the schizophrenic spectrum.

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Schizotypal

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The symptoms of antisocial personality disorder include

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impulsive and aggressive behavior

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Which personality disorder is primarily characterized by an indifference to social relationships as well as a very limited range of emotions?

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Schizoid personality disorder

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Statistics show that impulsivity, acting out, and other extreme behaviors of people with antisocial personality disorder decrease as these individuals age. The finding supports what is known as the

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maturation hypothesis

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Devlin is reclusive and does not derive pleasure from any kind of social activity. She rarely attends any social gethering and keeps to herself. Which of the following personality domains in the DSM-5 is Devlin depicting?

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detachment

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Cognitive-behavioral therapists may also use _____ to present the client with social situations that are increasingly more difficult for them to confront.

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graduated exposure

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According to current psuchoanalytic theorists, parenal failure to provide reassurance and positive responses to accomplishements may lead to the developement of ________ personality disorder.

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Narcissistic

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Which personality disorder is characterized by a lack of regard for society's moral and legal standards?

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Antisocial

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In which of the following therapies do clinicians help their clients take a step back and learn to identify their problematic ruminative thinking patterns in the context of building a theraputic alliance?

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Metacognitive interpersonal

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A client who is always on gaurd against potential danger or harm might be diagnosed as having a(n) ____ personality disorder.

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paranoid

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Personality disorders usually become evident

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even during adolescense

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The word "obsessive" as it applies to individuals who suffer from obsessive-compulsive personality disorder regers to the

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rigidly compulsive personity tendency they have

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Which of the follwoing traits of narcissistic personality disorder shows tendency to view oneself as possessing special and extremely favorable peronal qualities and abilities?

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grandiosity

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The personality disorder in which the individual is fearful of any incolvement with other people and terrified at the prospect of being publicly embarrassed is referred to as _____ personality disorder.

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avoidant

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In a recent study, poor nutrition at age three was associated with a higher likelihood of ____ disorder at age seventeen.

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conduct

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Dysfunctional attitudes and beliefs, rooted in childhood experiences of extreme criticism by parents, are central to the _____ apporach to avoidant personality disorder.

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cognitive-behavioral

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Treatment approach for people with borderline personity disorder that integrates supportive and cognitive-behavioral treatments to reduce the frequency of self-destructive acts and to improve the client's ability to handle disturbing emotions, such as anger and dependency is known as _____.

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dialectical behavioral therapy

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Avoidant personality disorder is characterized by

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extreme sensitivity toward rejection and ridicule

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which part of the brain plays a role in aversive conditioning and is involved in processing emotion?

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amygdala

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In psychology, an enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and others is referred to as a(n)

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personality trait

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Campbell has been diagnosed with a personality disorder and his clinician suggests a transference-fovused psychotherapy that uses the client-clinician relationships as the framework for heling clients achieve greater understanding of their unconscious feelings and motives. Using a process called core mindfulness, his clinician teaches Campbell to balance his emotions, reason, and intuition as he approaches life's problems. It is most likely that Campbell would be diagnosed as having _____ personality disorder.

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borderline

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Which peronality disorder is characterized by an unrealistic, inflated sense of self-importance and an inability to see the perspectives of other people?

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Narcissistic personality disorder

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Jason, a final year graduate student from Cornell Univeristy, is always suspicious about his girlfriend Joule, He is always anxious and believes that separation after college will spoil their relationship forever. He is always depressed and hostile. Which of the following personality domains in the DSM-5 is Jason depicting?

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negative affectivity

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The tendency for an individual to perceive people as either all good or all bad is reerred to as

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splitting

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Lamont is an interstate truck driver. Many people consider hinm a loner. Lamont is indifferent to the idea of marriage, shows no emotions, and does not seem to desire social contact. If we assume Lamont's problem is long-standing, which of the following dianoses would be most appropriate?

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schizoid personility disorder

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Which personality disorder involves peculiarities in thought, behavior, appearance, and style of relating to others?

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schizotypal personality disorder

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Which of the following terms involves engaging in behaviors on impluse, without reflecting on potential future consequences?

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disinhibition

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An inablitiy to distinguish between one's own identity and the identities of others is characteristic of which personality disorder?

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borderline

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The personality disorder in which the primary symptom is constant efforts by the individual to attract attention with exaggerated displays of emotion is called _____ personality disorder.

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histrionic

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Intense perfectionism and inflexibility manifested in worrying, indecisiveness, and behavioral rigidity is regerred to as ______ personality disorder.

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obsessive- compulisive

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The emotional disturbances seen in people with borderline personality disorder are characterized by

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emotional dysregulation

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The term borderline, in the past, was used to decribe patients who were functioning on the "border" of _____ and ______.

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neurosis; psychosis

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The term "psychopath" is synonymous with ______ personality disorder.

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antisocial