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Personality - ANS ✔✔the set of unique traits and behaviors that characterize the individual. 5
characteristics of a normal personality: neuroticism (emotional instability),
extraversion/introversion, openness to experience (unconventionality),
agreeableness/antagonism, and conscientiousness
Personality Disorder - ANS ✔✔people who, may not display obvious symptoms for most
disorders, have certain traits that are so inflexible and maladaptive that they are unable to
function effectively or meet the demands of their society characteristics; chronic interpersonal
difficulties, problems with one's identity or sense of self, and an inability to function adequately
in society. For a personality disorder to be diagnosed, the person's enduring pattern of behavior
must be pervasive and inflexible, as well as stable and of long duration.
-It must also cause either clinically significant distress or impairment in functioning and be
manifested in at least two of the following areas: cognition, affectivity, interpersonal
functioning, or impulse control.
*typically don't diagnose someone with a PD until adulthood
Cluster A: - ANS ✔✔People with these disorders often seem odd or eccentric, with unusual
behavior ranging from distrust and suspiciousness to social detachment.
Paranoid Personality Disorder - ANS ✔✔Cluster A: Suspiciousness and mistrust of others;
tendency to see self as blameless; on guard for perceived attacks by others
-they might be on the border for delusional but are not psychotic
Schizoid Personality Disorder: - ANS ✔✔Cluster A: Impaired social relationships; inability and
lack of desire to form attachments to others
, -difficulty expressing emotions, not emotionally reactive, seen as being cold or distant
(introverts)
Schizotypal Personality Disorder: - ANS ✔✔Cluster A: Peculiar thought patterns; oddities of
perception and speech that interfere with communication and social interaction
-excessive introversion, oddities in thinking/talking and other behaviors
Cluster B: - ANS ✔✔Individuals with these disorders share a tendency to be dramatic,
emotional, and erratic.
Histrionic Personality Disorder: - ANS ✔✔Cluster B: Self-dramatization; over-concern with
attractiveness; tendency to irritability and temper outbursts if attention-seeking is frustrated
Narcissistic Personality Disorder: - ANS ✔✔Cluster B: Grandiosity; preoccupation with receiving
attention (being admired) ; self-promoting; lack of empathy for feelings of others
Antisocial Personality Disorder: - ANS ✔✔Cluster B: Lack of moral or ethical development;
inability to follow approved models of behavior; deceitfulness; shameless manipulation of
others; history of conduct problems as a child
-next level from conduct disorder
-symptoms must be present before age of 15
-if there is no intervention between age of 8 they are less likely to be rehabilitated
Psychopathy/Sociopathy - ANS ✔✔Cluster B: is often confused with antisocial personality
disorder; however in psychopathy more attention is paid to personality characteristics such as
superficial charm, lack of empathy, and manipulativeness.
Key factor: no remorse
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Personality - ANS ✔✔the set of unique traits and behaviors that characterize the individual. 5
characteristics of a normal personality: neuroticism (emotional instability),
extraversion/introversion, openness to experience (unconventionality),
agreeableness/antagonism, and conscientiousness
Personality Disorder - ANS ✔✔people who, may not display obvious symptoms for most
disorders, have certain traits that are so inflexible and maladaptive that they are unable to
function effectively or meet the demands of their society characteristics; chronic interpersonal
difficulties, problems with one's identity or sense of self, and an inability to function adequately
in society. For a personality disorder to be diagnosed, the person's enduring pattern of behavior
must be pervasive and inflexible, as well as stable and of long duration.
-It must also cause either clinically significant distress or impairment in functioning and be
manifested in at least two of the following areas: cognition, affectivity, interpersonal
functioning, or impulse control.
*typically don't diagnose someone with a PD until adulthood
Cluster A: - ANS ✔✔People with these disorders often seem odd or eccentric, with unusual
behavior ranging from distrust and suspiciousness to social detachment.
Paranoid Personality Disorder - ANS ✔✔Cluster A: Suspiciousness and mistrust of others;
tendency to see self as blameless; on guard for perceived attacks by others
-they might be on the border for delusional but are not psychotic
Schizoid Personality Disorder: - ANS ✔✔Cluster A: Impaired social relationships; inability and
lack of desire to form attachments to others
, -difficulty expressing emotions, not emotionally reactive, seen as being cold or distant
(introverts)
Schizotypal Personality Disorder: - ANS ✔✔Cluster A: Peculiar thought patterns; oddities of
perception and speech that interfere with communication and social interaction
-excessive introversion, oddities in thinking/talking and other behaviors
Cluster B: - ANS ✔✔Individuals with these disorders share a tendency to be dramatic,
emotional, and erratic.
Histrionic Personality Disorder: - ANS ✔✔Cluster B: Self-dramatization; over-concern with
attractiveness; tendency to irritability and temper outbursts if attention-seeking is frustrated
Narcissistic Personality Disorder: - ANS ✔✔Cluster B: Grandiosity; preoccupation with receiving
attention (being admired) ; self-promoting; lack of empathy for feelings of others
Antisocial Personality Disorder: - ANS ✔✔Cluster B: Lack of moral or ethical development;
inability to follow approved models of behavior; deceitfulness; shameless manipulation of
others; history of conduct problems as a child
-next level from conduct disorder
-symptoms must be present before age of 15
-if there is no intervention between age of 8 they are less likely to be rehabilitated
Psychopathy/Sociopathy - ANS ✔✔Cluster B: is often confused with antisocial personality
disorder; however in psychopathy more attention is paid to personality characteristics such as
superficial charm, lack of empathy, and manipulativeness.
Key factor: no remorse
