Personality Disorders | PSYC 250 - Abnormal Psychology, Quizzes of Abnormal Psychology

Download Personality Disorders | PSYC 250 - Abnormal Psychology and more Quizzes Abnormal Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! TERM 1 Personality DEFINITION 1 Personality is the particular combination of emotional, attitudinal, and behavioral response patterns of an individual, their unique and enduring pattern of inner experience and outward behavior that is characteristic of a given individual. TERM 2 Personality disorder DEFINITION 2 Personality disorders, formerly referred to as character disorders, are a class of personality types and behaviors, a pervasive, enduring, and inflexible pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of a person's culture and leads to distress or impairment. TERM 3 Schizophrenia-spectrum disorders DEFINITION 3 This cluster of "odd" personality disorders consists of the paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders. Typical behavior displayed is extreme suspiciousness, social withdrawal, and cognitive and perceptual peculiarities. TERM 4 Paranoid personality disorder DEFINITION 4 Paranoid personality disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis characterized by paranoia and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others. TERM 5 Schizoid personality disorder DEFINITION 5 Schizoid personality disorder is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, a tendency towards a solitary lifestyle, secretiveness, emotional coldness and sometimes (sexual) apathy, with a simultaneous rich, elaborate and exclusively internal fantasy world. TERM 6 Schizotypal personality disorder DEFINITION 6 Schizotypal personality disorder, or simply schizotypal disorder, is a personality disorder that is characterized by a need for social isolation, anxiety in social situations, odd behavior and thinking, and often unconventional beliefs. TERM 7 Ideas of reference DEFINITION 7 People with certain disorders who believe that unrelated events pertain to them in some important way. TERM 8 Antisocial personality disorder DEFINITION 8 Antisocial personality disorder is described by the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fourth edition (DSM-IV-TR), as an Axis II personality disorder characterized by "...a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood." TERM 9 Psychopathy DEFINITION 9 Psychopathy is a mental disorder characterized primarily by a lack of empathy and remorse, shallow emotions, egocentricity, and deceptiveness. TERM 10 Sociopathy DEFINITION 10 Sociopathy is a loosely-defined term that may be used to refer to: antisocial personality disorder, a personality disorder characterized by a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of other people's rights. TERM 21 Impulse control disorders DEFINITION 21 Impulse control disorder is a set of psychiatric disorders including intermittent explosive disorder, kleptomania, pathological gambling, pyromania, and three body-focused repetitive or compulsive behaviors of trichotillomania (a compulsion to pull one's hair out), onychophagia (compulsive nail biting) and dermatillomania (compulsive skin picking). TERM 22 Pathological gambling DEFINITION 22 Problem gambling is an urge to gamble despite harmful negative consequences or a desire to stop. TERM 23 Kleptomania DEFINITION 23 Kleptomania is an irresistible urge to steal items of trivial value. TERM 24 Trichotillomania DEFINITION 24 Trichotillomania, which is classified as an impulse control disorder by DSM-IV, is the compulsive urge to pull out one's own hair leading to noticeable hair loss, distress, and social or functional impairment. TERM 25 Psychoactive substances DEFINITION 25 A psychoactive drug, psychopharmaceutical, or psychotropic is a chemical substance that crosses the blood-brain barrier and acts primarily upon the central nervous system where it affects brain function, resulting in changes in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition, and behavior. TERM 26 Substance intoxication DEFINITION 26 Substance intoxication is a type of substance-induced disorder which is potentially maladaptive and impairing, but reversible, and associated with recent use. TERM 27 Opiates DEFINITION 27 In medicine, the term opiate describes any of the narcotic opioid alkaloids found as natural products in the opium poppy plant.