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Test Bank for Abnormal Psychology 6th Canadian Edition by Flett Chapter 13
Chapter 13
Personality Disorders
Question Type: True/False
1) The traits of people with personality disorders are different than the traits of people without
personality disorders.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Personality Disorders
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 13.1 List the general criteria used to determine whether someone has
personality dysfunction and explain why a categorical approach to diagnosis has been
supplemented by a dimensional approach.
Bloom’s: Comprehension
2) Personality disorders are diagnosed on Axis II of DSM-5.
Answer: False
Section Reference: 13.1 Classifying Personality Disorders: Clusters, Categories, and Problems
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.2 What are the most significant challenges that influence the
assessments that are conducted when seeking to determine whether someone has a
personality disorder?
Bloom’s: Knowledge
3) Personality disorders may be best diagnosed in a dimensional manner.
Answer: True
Section Reference: 13.1 Classifying Personality Disorders: Clusters, Categories, and Problems
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.2 What are the most significant challenges that influence the
assessments that are conducted when seeking to determine whether someone has a
personality disorder?
Bloom’s: Comprehension
4) The best way to diagnose personality disorders is to have people complete the NEO (Five-
,Factor Model).
Answer: False
Section Reference: Focus on Discovery 13.1
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 13.2 What are the most significant challenges that influence the
assessments that are conducted when seeking to determine whether someone has a
personality disorder?
Bloom’s: Comprehension
5) People with personality disorders are often not distressed about their behaviour.
Answer: True
Section Reference: 13.2 Assessing Personality Disorders
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.2 What are the most significant challenges that influence the
assessments that are conducted when seeking to determine whether someone has a
personality disorder?
Bloom’s: Comprehension
6) Personality disorder not otherwise specified (PDNOS) is the most common personality
disorder diagnosis.
Answer: False
Section Reference: 13.2 Assessing Personality Disorders
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.2 What are the most significant challenges that influence the
assessments that are conducted when seeking to determine whether someone has a
personality disorder?
Bloom’s: Knowledge
7) University students are most likely to be diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Student Perspectives 13.1
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 13.1 List the general criteria used to determine whether someone has
,personality dysfunction and explain why a categorical approach to diagnosis has been
supplemented by a dimensional approach.
Bloom’s: Comprehension
8) People with paranoid personality disorder experience less dysfunction than those with
paranoid schizophrenia.
Answer: True
Section Reference: 13.3 Personality Disorder Clusters: Odd/Eccentric Cluster
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.3 List the personality disorders grouped in the odd/eccentric cluster and
describe the characteristics they have in common.
Bloom’s: Knowledge
9) People with schizoid personality disorder are likely to be perceived by others as loners.
Answer: True
Section Reference: 13.3 Personality Disorder Clusters: Odd/Eccentric Cluster
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.3 List the personality disorders grouped in the odd/eccentric cluster and
describe the characteristics they have in common.
Bloom’s: Knowledge
10) Schizotypal personality disorder is more common among children of schizophrenics.
Answer: True
Section Reference: 13.3 Personality Disorder Clusters: Odd/Eccentric Cluster
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 13.3 List the personality disorders grouped in the odd/eccentric cluster and
describe the characteristics they have in common.
Bloom’s: Knowledge
11) Schizotypal personality disorder is well-differentiated from other personality disorders.
Answer: False
Section Reference: 13.3 Personality Disorder Clusters: Odd/Eccentric Cluster
, Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.3 List the personality disorders grouped in the odd/eccentric cluster and
describe the characteristics they have in common.
Bloom’s: Knowledge
12) Cluster A personality disorders are related to schizophrenia.
Answer: True
Section Reference: 13.3 Personality Disorder Clusters: Odd/Eccentric Cluster
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.3 List the personality disorders grouped in the odd/eccentric cluster and
describe the characteristics they have in common.
Bloom’s: Comprehension
13) The term “borderline” in borderline personality refers to people who experience it being on
the borderline between sane and insane.
Answer: False
Section Reference: 13.4 Personality Disorder Clusters: Dramatic/Erratic Cluster
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.4 Compare and contrast the personality disorders in the dramatic/erratic
cluster in terms of how people with these personality disorders tend to interact with other
people.
Bloom’s: Knowledge
14) Borderline personality disorder tends to be comorbid with mood disorders.
Answer: True
Section Reference: 13.4 Personality Disorder Clusters: Dramatic/Erratic Cluster
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.4 Compare and contrast the personality disorders in the dramatic/erratic
cluster in terms of how people with these personality disorders tend to interact with other
people.
Bloom’s: Knowledge
15) Linehan’s diathesis-stress theory is the most widely accepted explanation of the etiology of
borderline personality disorder.
Test Bank for Abnormal Psychology 6th Canadian Edition by Flett Chapter 13
Chapter 13
Personality Disorders
Question Type: True/False
1) The traits of people with personality disorders are different than the traits of people without
personality disorders.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Personality Disorders
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 13.1 List the general criteria used to determine whether someone has
personality dysfunction and explain why a categorical approach to diagnosis has been
supplemented by a dimensional approach.
Bloom’s: Comprehension
2) Personality disorders are diagnosed on Axis II of DSM-5.
Answer: False
Section Reference: 13.1 Classifying Personality Disorders: Clusters, Categories, and Problems
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.2 What are the most significant challenges that influence the
assessments that are conducted when seeking to determine whether someone has a
personality disorder?
Bloom’s: Knowledge
3) Personality disorders may be best diagnosed in a dimensional manner.
Answer: True
Section Reference: 13.1 Classifying Personality Disorders: Clusters, Categories, and Problems
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.2 What are the most significant challenges that influence the
assessments that are conducted when seeking to determine whether someone has a
personality disorder?
Bloom’s: Comprehension
4) The best way to diagnose personality disorders is to have people complete the NEO (Five-
,Factor Model).
Answer: False
Section Reference: Focus on Discovery 13.1
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 13.2 What are the most significant challenges that influence the
assessments that are conducted when seeking to determine whether someone has a
personality disorder?
Bloom’s: Comprehension
5) People with personality disorders are often not distressed about their behaviour.
Answer: True
Section Reference: 13.2 Assessing Personality Disorders
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.2 What are the most significant challenges that influence the
assessments that are conducted when seeking to determine whether someone has a
personality disorder?
Bloom’s: Comprehension
6) Personality disorder not otherwise specified (PDNOS) is the most common personality
disorder diagnosis.
Answer: False
Section Reference: 13.2 Assessing Personality Disorders
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.2 What are the most significant challenges that influence the
assessments that are conducted when seeking to determine whether someone has a
personality disorder?
Bloom’s: Knowledge
7) University students are most likely to be diagnosed with narcissistic personality disorder.
Answer: False
Section Reference: Student Perspectives 13.1
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 13.1 List the general criteria used to determine whether someone has
,personality dysfunction and explain why a categorical approach to diagnosis has been
supplemented by a dimensional approach.
Bloom’s: Comprehension
8) People with paranoid personality disorder experience less dysfunction than those with
paranoid schizophrenia.
Answer: True
Section Reference: 13.3 Personality Disorder Clusters: Odd/Eccentric Cluster
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.3 List the personality disorders grouped in the odd/eccentric cluster and
describe the characteristics they have in common.
Bloom’s: Knowledge
9) People with schizoid personality disorder are likely to be perceived by others as loners.
Answer: True
Section Reference: 13.3 Personality Disorder Clusters: Odd/Eccentric Cluster
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.3 List the personality disorders grouped in the odd/eccentric cluster and
describe the characteristics they have in common.
Bloom’s: Knowledge
10) Schizotypal personality disorder is more common among children of schizophrenics.
Answer: True
Section Reference: 13.3 Personality Disorder Clusters: Odd/Eccentric Cluster
Difficulty: Medium
Learning Objective: 13.3 List the personality disorders grouped in the odd/eccentric cluster and
describe the characteristics they have in common.
Bloom’s: Knowledge
11) Schizotypal personality disorder is well-differentiated from other personality disorders.
Answer: False
Section Reference: 13.3 Personality Disorder Clusters: Odd/Eccentric Cluster
, Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.3 List the personality disorders grouped in the odd/eccentric cluster and
describe the characteristics they have in common.
Bloom’s: Knowledge
12) Cluster A personality disorders are related to schizophrenia.
Answer: True
Section Reference: 13.3 Personality Disorder Clusters: Odd/Eccentric Cluster
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.3 List the personality disorders grouped in the odd/eccentric cluster and
describe the characteristics they have in common.
Bloom’s: Comprehension
13) The term “borderline” in borderline personality refers to people who experience it being on
the borderline between sane and insane.
Answer: False
Section Reference: 13.4 Personality Disorder Clusters: Dramatic/Erratic Cluster
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.4 Compare and contrast the personality disorders in the dramatic/erratic
cluster in terms of how people with these personality disorders tend to interact with other
people.
Bloom’s: Knowledge
14) Borderline personality disorder tends to be comorbid with mood disorders.
Answer: True
Section Reference: 13.4 Personality Disorder Clusters: Dramatic/Erratic Cluster
Difficulty: Easy
Learning Objective: 13.4 Compare and contrast the personality disorders in the dramatic/erratic
cluster in terms of how people with these personality disorders tend to interact with other
people.
Bloom’s: Knowledge
15) Linehan’s diathesis-stress theory is the most widely accepted explanation of the etiology of
borderline personality disorder.
