Personality Disorders mock exam
2025\2026
100 questions
1. Which personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern
of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of
emotional expression?
a. Borderline
b. Histrionic
c. Schizoid
d. Narcissistic
c. Schizoid
Schizoid personality disorder involves detachment from social
relationships and limited emotional expression, distinguishing it
from other disorders that involve more dramatic or emotional
behaviors.
2. Individuals with borderline personality disorder often display
which of the following?
a. Grandiosity
b. Emotional instability
c. Social withdrawal
d. Lack of empathy
b. Emotional instability
Borderline personality disorder is characterized by intense
emotional shifts, unstable relationships, and impulsivity.
3. A patient demonstrates excessive need for admiration, lack of
empathy, and a sense of entitlement. Which personality disorder
, is most consistent with these traits?
a. Antisocial
b. Narcissistic
c. Avoidant
d. Dependent
b. Narcissistic
Narcissistic personality disorder involves grandiosity, a need for
admiration, and deficits in empathy.
4. Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is different from OCD
in that:
a. OCPD involves true obsessions and compulsions
b. OCPD behaviors are ego-dystonic
c. OCPD is ego-syntonic and focused on perfectionism
d. OCPD is usually associated with panic attacks
c. OCPD is ego-syntonic and focused on perfectionism
Individuals with OCPD see their behaviors as appropriate and
beneficial, whereas OCD symptoms are unwanted and
distressing (ego-dystonic).
5. Which personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive distrust
and suspiciousness of others?
a. Paranoid
b. Schizotypal
c. Histrionic
d. Dependent
a. Paranoid
Paranoid personality disorder involves mistrust, suspicion, and
interpreting others’ motives as malevolent.
6. Individuals with histrionic personality disorder often exhibit:
a. Emotional detachment
, b. Dramatic, attention-seeking behavior
c. Lack of empathy
d. Social withdrawal
b. Dramatic, attention-seeking behavior
Histrionic personality disorder is marked by excessive
emotionality and attention-seeking, often using theatrical or
seductive behaviors.
7. A pattern of submissive and clinging behavior, with fear of
separation, is characteristic of which personality disorder?
a. Dependent
b. Avoidant
c. Borderline
d. Paranoid
a. Dependent
Dependent personality disorder involves excessive need to be
taken care of, leading to submissive and clinging behaviors.
8. Avoidant personality disorder is best described as:
a. Disregard for the rights of others
b. Social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to
criticism
c. Emotional instability and impulsivity
d. Attention-seeking and dramatic behaviors
b. Social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity
to criticism
Avoidant personality disorder involves extreme shyness, fear of
rejection, and avoidance of social situations due to feelings of
inadequacy.
9. Antisocial personality disorder is primarily characterized by:
a. Intense fear of abandonment
, b. Disregard for and violation of the rights of others
c. Perfectionism and control
d. Social inhibition
b. Disregard for and violation of the rights of others
Antisocial personality disorder is marked by deceitfulness,
impulsivity, irritability, aggression, and lack of remorse.
10. Which personality disorder often presents with eccentric
behavior, cognitive or perceptual distortions, and social anxiety?
a. Schizotypal
b. Schizoid
c. Narcissistic
d. Histrionic
a. Schizotypal
Schizotypal personality disorder includes odd beliefs, magical
thinking, unusual perceptual experiences, and eccentric
behaviors.
11. The hallmark feature of borderline personality disorder
includes:
a. Fear of social interaction
b. Instability in relationships, self-image, and affect
c. Grandiosity and entitlement
d. Social detachment
b. Instability in relationships, self-image, and affect
Borderline personality disorder is defined by unstable
interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotional
regulation.
12. Individuals with paranoid personality disorder often:
a. Have no concern for others’ rights
b. Misinterpret benign comments as threatening
2025\2026
100 questions
1. Which personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive pattern
of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of
emotional expression?
a. Borderline
b. Histrionic
c. Schizoid
d. Narcissistic
c. Schizoid
Schizoid personality disorder involves detachment from social
relationships and limited emotional expression, distinguishing it
from other disorders that involve more dramatic or emotional
behaviors.
2. Individuals with borderline personality disorder often display
which of the following?
a. Grandiosity
b. Emotional instability
c. Social withdrawal
d. Lack of empathy
b. Emotional instability
Borderline personality disorder is characterized by intense
emotional shifts, unstable relationships, and impulsivity.
3. A patient demonstrates excessive need for admiration, lack of
empathy, and a sense of entitlement. Which personality disorder
, is most consistent with these traits?
a. Antisocial
b. Narcissistic
c. Avoidant
d. Dependent
b. Narcissistic
Narcissistic personality disorder involves grandiosity, a need for
admiration, and deficits in empathy.
4. Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is different from OCD
in that:
a. OCPD involves true obsessions and compulsions
b. OCPD behaviors are ego-dystonic
c. OCPD is ego-syntonic and focused on perfectionism
d. OCPD is usually associated with panic attacks
c. OCPD is ego-syntonic and focused on perfectionism
Individuals with OCPD see their behaviors as appropriate and
beneficial, whereas OCD symptoms are unwanted and
distressing (ego-dystonic).
5. Which personality disorder is characterized by a pervasive distrust
and suspiciousness of others?
a. Paranoid
b. Schizotypal
c. Histrionic
d. Dependent
a. Paranoid
Paranoid personality disorder involves mistrust, suspicion, and
interpreting others’ motives as malevolent.
6. Individuals with histrionic personality disorder often exhibit:
a. Emotional detachment
, b. Dramatic, attention-seeking behavior
c. Lack of empathy
d. Social withdrawal
b. Dramatic, attention-seeking behavior
Histrionic personality disorder is marked by excessive
emotionality and attention-seeking, often using theatrical or
seductive behaviors.
7. A pattern of submissive and clinging behavior, with fear of
separation, is characteristic of which personality disorder?
a. Dependent
b. Avoidant
c. Borderline
d. Paranoid
a. Dependent
Dependent personality disorder involves excessive need to be
taken care of, leading to submissive and clinging behaviors.
8. Avoidant personality disorder is best described as:
a. Disregard for the rights of others
b. Social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity to
criticism
c. Emotional instability and impulsivity
d. Attention-seeking and dramatic behaviors
b. Social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, and hypersensitivity
to criticism
Avoidant personality disorder involves extreme shyness, fear of
rejection, and avoidance of social situations due to feelings of
inadequacy.
9. Antisocial personality disorder is primarily characterized by:
a. Intense fear of abandonment
, b. Disregard for and violation of the rights of others
c. Perfectionism and control
d. Social inhibition
b. Disregard for and violation of the rights of others
Antisocial personality disorder is marked by deceitfulness,
impulsivity, irritability, aggression, and lack of remorse.
10. Which personality disorder often presents with eccentric
behavior, cognitive or perceptual distortions, and social anxiety?
a. Schizotypal
b. Schizoid
c. Narcissistic
d. Histrionic
a. Schizotypal
Schizotypal personality disorder includes odd beliefs, magical
thinking, unusual perceptual experiences, and eccentric
behaviors.
11. The hallmark feature of borderline personality disorder
includes:
a. Fear of social interaction
b. Instability in relationships, self-image, and affect
c. Grandiosity and entitlement
d. Social detachment
b. Instability in relationships, self-image, and affect
Borderline personality disorder is defined by unstable
interpersonal relationships, self-image, and emotional
regulation.
12. Individuals with paranoid personality disorder often:
a. Have no concern for others’ rights
b. Misinterpret benign comments as threatening
