Imported: Neuro Test 2: Ryan_Personality Disorders I & Ii

Front 1

describe the ego, id and superego

Back 1

ego: self, reality principle (balanced)

id: pleasure,kid like

superego: ego ideal, moral guardian

Front 2

what is splitting?

Back 2

makes things seem like black and white

one person is good, one person is evil

Front 3

what is projecting?

Back 3

you can't deal with your feelings so you put them on someone else

person is wanting to cheat so starts thinking his wife is

Front 4

what is the 5 factor model of personality?

Back 4

OCEAN

Openness ….………...Closedness
Conscientiousness …..Undependability
Extraversion ………….Introversion
Agreeableness ….…....Antagonism
Neuroticism ………….Emotional Stability

Front 5

frontal lobe functions?

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Front 6

What is a Personality Disorder?

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Back 6

Inflexible & maladaptive responses to stress

Global, affecting work and relationships
Non - psychotic, except under severe stress
Ego - syntonic (defense mech to make up stress for super ego/id)
Distressing to others
Multiple complications

Front 7

DSM-IV-TR General Criteria for a Personality Disorder

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Back 7

An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture. The pattern is manifested in 2 or more of the following areas:

Cognition
Affect
Interpersonal functioning
Impulse control

Front 8

What are the 3 cluster's of personality disorders

Back 8

Cluster A: Odd/Eccentric

Cluster B: Dramatic/Erratic

Cluster C: Anxious/Fearful

Front 9

Describe paranoid personality disorder

Back 9

Distrust and suspiciousness about the motives of others

“SUSPECT”
Spouse fidelity suspected
Unforgiving (bears grudges)
Suspicious of others
Perceives attacks (and reacts quickly)
“Enemy or friend” (suspects associated and friends)
Confiding in others feared
Threats perceived in benign events

Front 10

describe Schizoid Personality Disorder

Back 10

Detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of emotional expression.

“DISTANT”
Detached (or flattened affect)
Indifferent to criticism and praise
Sexual experiences of little interest
Tasks (activities) done solitarily
Absence of close friends
Neither desires nor enjoys close relations
Takes pleasure in few activities

Front 11

key to Schizoid Personality Disorder?

how is it different from schizotypal?

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Back 11

Schizoid Personality Disorder: Do not desire or enjoy close relationships and flat affect

schizotypal doesnt have friends but really want them

Front 12

describe Schizotypal Personality Disorder

Back 12

Acute discomfort in close relationships, cognitive or perceptual distortions, and behavioral eccentricities

“ME PECULIAR”
Magical thinking or odd beliefs
Experiences unusual perceptions
Paranoid ideation
Eccentric behavior or appearance
Constricted (or inappropriate) affect
Unusual (odd) thinking and speech
Lacks close friends-BUT WANTS THEM
Ideas of reference
Anxiety in social situations
Rule out psychotic disorders

Front 13

describe Antisocial Personality Disorder

Back 13

Disregard for and violation of the rights of others

“CORRUPT”
Conformity to law lacking
Obligations ignored
Reckless disregard for safety of self or others
Remorse lacking
Underhanded (deceitful, lies, cons others)
Planning insufficient (impulsive)
Temper (irritable and aggressive)

Front 14

describe Borderline Personality Disorder

Back 14

Instability in emotions and interpersonal relationships, inadequate self image, fear of abandonment, and marked impulsivity

“A.M. SUICIDE”
Abandonment
Mood instability (marked reactivity of mood)
Suicidal (or self-mutilating) behavior
Unstable and intense relationships
Impulsivity (in two potentially self-damaging areas)
Control of anger
Identity disturbance
Dissociative (or paranoid) symptoms that are transient and stress related
Emptiness (chronic feelings of)

Front 15

splitting is seen in what personality disorder?

Back 15

Borderline Personality Disorder

Front 16

Describe Histrionic Personality Disorder

Back 16

Excessive emotionality and attention seeking, often dramatic

“PRAISE ME”
Provocative (or sexually seductive) behavior
Relationships (considered more intimate than they are)
Attention (uncomfortable when not the center of attention
Influenced easily
Style of speech (impressionistic, lacks detail)
Emotions (rapidly shifting and shallow)
Made up (physical appearance used to draw attention to self)
Emotions exaggerated (theatrical)

Front 17

describe Narcissistic Personality Disorder

Back 17

Grandiosity, a need for admiration, a lack of empathy for the problems and needs of others

“SPE3CIAL”
Special (believes he or she is special and unique)
Preoccupied with fantasies (of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love)
Envious (of others, or believes others are envious of him or her)
Entitlement
Excess admiration required
Conceited (grandiose sense of self importance)
Interpersonal exploitation
Arrogant
Lacks empathy

Front 18

describe Avoidant Personality Disorder

Back 18

Social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to criticism or negativism

“CRINGES”
Certainty (of being liked required before willing to get involved with others)
Rejection (or criticism) preoccupies ones’ thought in social situations
Intimate relationships (restraint in intimate relationships due to fear of being shamed)
New interpersonal relationships (is inhibited in)
Gets around occupational activity (involving significant interpersonal contact)
Embarrassment (potential) prevents new activity or taking personal risks
Self viewed (as unappealing, inept, or inferior)

Front 19

describe Dependent Personality Disorder

Back 19

Submissive and clinging behavior and fears of separation

“RELIANCE”
Reassurance (required for decisions)
Expressing disagreement difficult (due to fear of loss of support or approval)
Life responsibilities (needs to have these assumed by others)
Initiating projects difficult (due to lack of self-confidence)
Alone (feels helplessness and discomfort when alone)
Nurturance (goes to excessive lengths to obtain nurturance and support)
Companionship (another relationship) sought urgently when close relationship ends
Exaggerated fears of being left to care for self

Front 20

describe Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder

Back 20

Preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control

“LAW FIRMS”
Loses point of activity (due to preoccupation with detail)
Ability to complete tasks (compromised by perfectionism)
Worthless objects (unable to discard)
Friendships (and leisure activities) excluded (due to preoccupation with work)
Inflexible, scrupulous, over conscientious (on ethics values, or morality; not accounted for by religion or culture)
Reluctant to delegate (unless others submit to exact guidelines)
Miserly (toward self and others)
Stubbornness (and rigidity)

Front 21

what lobe of the brain is key in personality?

**TEST

Back 21

Frontal

Front 22

What do defense mechanisms help you cope with?

*TEST

Back 22

helps your Ego cope with the unrealistic expectations from Superego (ultra moral self) and Id (child desires)

Front 23

Need to know general criteria for personality disorder

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Back 23

An enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture. The pattern is manifested in 2 or more of the following areas:

Cognition
Affect
Interpersonal functioning
Impulse control

The enduring pattern is:

Inflexible and pervasive across a broad range of personal and social situations.

Leads to clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.

Stable and of long duration and its beginning can be traced back at least to adolescence or early adulthood.

Not better accounted for by another mental disorder

Not due to the effects of a substance (drug of abuse or medication) or a general medical condition (head trauma)

Front 24

Dependent, borderline, OCD,

Back 24

need to know how to see them

Front 25

Give me the disorders in Clusters A, B and C

Back 25

Front 26

What is the Psychological relevance of Phineas Gage Incident?

**EXAM**

Back 26

Phineas Gage was a railroad worker that had an iron bar driven through his skull, damaging his frontal lobe.

Hist personality changed drastically.

Consequently, medical professionals now understand the role of the frontal lobe in a person's personality.

Front 27

Personality Disorder? Cluster?

Marianne is throwing a party. She loves the attention. She is dressed in her best tight fitting, red, floor-length dress. She opens to door for every guest, flinging it open and hugging every male guest a little too intimately.

Once the guests arrive she takes her place, sitting on the piano with a martini in her hand.

Back 27

Histrionic --> Cluster B

Provocative Behavior, extravagant dress

Sees relationships as more intimate than they really are

Grandiose/Theatrical Behavior

Front 28

Personality Disorder? Cluster?

Todd arrives early to scope the place out. He tells his wife that he better not catch her looking at any men. Marianne offers to take his coat, but Todd is convinced that she will search his pockets.

He is always looking over his shoulder because one time, at one party, someone gave him a dirty look.

Back 28

Paranoid --> Cluster A

Suspects infidelity in wife

Suspicious of others

Perceives benign threats as an attack

Front 29

Personality Disorder? Cluster?

Mike has been drinking before he even arrives, not taking in to account that he was supposed to be the DD for several people. He picks Todd’s pocket and then picks a fight with another guest.

He breaks several wine glasses, but doesn’t apologize. On the way home he hits several cars, but just keeps driving.

Back 29

Antisocial --> Cluster B

Ignored obligations

Disregard for others

No remorse

Lacks conformity to law

Front 30

Personality Disorder? Cluster?

Andrea is crying when she arrives. She picked a fight with her date and then was upset when he didn’t come with her. This is the fourth time she’s been to a party this week and she has had a different date every time. She can’t seem to keep a boyfriend.

They have all left within thirty minutes of arriving each time. She latches on to Mike. When he ignores her she threatens to kill herself

Back 30

Borderline --> Cluster B

Mood instability

Intense/unstable relationships

Suicidal behavior

Front 31

Personality Disorder? Cluster?

Steve doesn’t come to the party. He has no desire to develop close relationships, so there is really no need to attend. HE would rather just stay at home alone and play solitaire, not that he gets any enjoyment out of that.

Quite frankly, he’s indifferent to what any of the partygoers say about him while he’s not there. Besides, last time Andrea got drunk and wouldn’t leave him alone.

Back 31

Schizoid --> Cluster A

Neither desires nor enjoys close
relationships

Absence of close friends

Tasks done solitarily

Indifferent to criticism

Take little pleasure in activities

Front 32

Personality Disorder? Cluster?

Ellen clings to her husband the entire time. He had to choose her clothes and she constantly asks him for reassurance. When he excuses himself to go to the bathroom, she gets very uncomfortable and wonders how she’s going to fend for herself without him.

Marianne offers her a bacon wrapped scallops. Ellen hates seafood, but she eats it anyway because she doesn’t want Marianne to disapprove.

Back 32

Dependent --> Cluster C

Reassurance required

Needs help with life responsibilities

Exaggerated fear of being left to care for self

Expressing disagreement difficult

Front 33

Personality Disorder? Cluster?

Bob is very uncomfortable in social situations, but wants friends. This is difficult for him because he dresses oddly and his mannerisms are unusual.

He sees Ellen alone (when her husband goes to the bathroom) and begins telling her that he predicted the September 11th attacks because while cleaning a pool he saw a bug float through two lines of leaves. His affect does not change throughout the conversation

Back 33

Schizotypal --> Cluster A

Lacks close friends

Eccentric behavior/appearance/thinking

Ideas of reference

** Magical Thinking**

Front 34

Personality Disorder? Cluster?

Elliot arrives late-and he makes sure EVERYONE notices. Elliot knows thatthe other men are jealous of him, because of his GQ good looks (or so he thinks). He doesn’t understand why no one has brought him a drink yet.

He tells tales of business deals and wealth (he owns a car wash) and demands others listen to him or he speaks more loudly.

Back 34

Narcissistic --> Cluster B

Believes he is special and requires excessive admiration.

Believes others are envious of him.

Sense of entitlement.

Preoccupied with fantasies.

Front 35

Personality Disorder? Cluster?

Michelle made sure she knew who was going to be at the party before she came. It was important that she know they liked her. She rarely goes out because she is worried about being criticized or embarrassing herself.

She views herself as inferior, especially while listening to Elliot speak. She doesn’t say much to anyone.

Back 35

Avoidant --> Cluster C

Has to be sure she is liked before getting involved.

Avoids interpersonal contact due to fear of embarrassment.

Views self as inferior.

Front 36

Personality Disorder? Cluster?

Allison is exhausted by the end of the party. While Michelle has been sitting on the piano, Allison has been following people around wiping off moisture from glasses to make sure there are no water rings left on the furniture. Others have offered to help clean up, but she either brushes them off or gives such specific instructions that they get weirded out and leave.

She saves one of Elliot’s napkins and can’t seem to throw it away. She fails to make new friends and forgets about the party all together

Back 36

OCPD --> Cluster C

Loses point of activity due to
preoccupation with detail.

Unable to discard worthless objects.

Reluctant to delegate and is inflexible