PSY 657 FINAL EXAM STUDY GUIDE
PRACTICE SOLUTION GRADED A PLUS
2026
⩥ Personality Disorder (be able to identify a trait). Answer: people that
have traits that are inflexible and maladaptive that they are unable to
function effectively or meet the demands of their culture.
⩥ Summary of Personality Disorders. Answer: Summary of Personality
Disorders. Page 329
⩥ Cluster A. Answer: people seem odd or eccentric, with unusual
behavior ranging from distrust and suspiciousness to social detachment.
Paranoid Personality Disorder - suspicious, blames others
Schizoid Personality Disorder - lacks interest in forming social
relationships with others
Schizotypal Personality Disorder - oddities in thinking, talking and other
behaviors
⩥ Cluster B. Answer: Paranoid Personality Disorder - suspicious,
blames others
Histrionic Personality Disorder - excessive emotionality, overconcern
with physical attractiveness, self-dramatization
Narcissistic Personality Disorder - exaggerated sense of self-importance
,Antisocial Personality Disorder - violate rights of others
Psychopathy/Sociopathy
Borderline Personality Disorder - impulsivity and instability
⩥ Cluster C. Answer: these personality disorders show anxiety and fear.
Avoidant Personality Disorder - introversion and extreme social
inhibition
Dependent Personality Disorder - discomfort at possibility of separation
or being alone
Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder- a pervasive pattern of
preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and
interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility
⩥ Know ALL PDs MUST be impairing. Answer: Social, Academic &
Occupational functioning
⩥ Fetishism. Answer: sexual pleasure from inanimate objects
⩥ Transvestic Fetishism. Answer: sexual pleasure to cross dress, if they
experience impairment or distress
⩥ Voyeurism. Answer: recurrent, intensive sexually arousing fantasies,
urges, or behaviors involving the observation of unsuspecting people
who are undressing or couples engaging in sexual activity.
, ⩥ Exhibitionistic Disorder (Exhibitionism). Answer: showing genitals to
someone in inappropriate circumstances and without their consent.
⩥ Sadism. Answer: the tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual
gratification, from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others.
⩥ Masochism. Answer: a person experiences pleasure from being
dominated and made to experience pain.
⩥ Pedophilic. Answer: pleasure in having sexual relations with
prepubertal child 13 and younger.
⩥ Apotemnophilia. Answer: an overwhelming or obsessive desire to
have one or more healthy body parts and especially a limb removed by
amputation ... the characteristic findings of this fascinating disease
clearly distinguish apotemnophilia as a unique paraphilia.
⩥ Is transexualism a paraphilia?. Answer:
⩥ Gender Dysmorphia. Answer: characterized by persistent distress
resulting from a perceived mismatch between one's assigned gender at
birth and their gender identity. Can be diagnosed at childhood or
adulthood.
PRACTICE SOLUTION GRADED A PLUS
2026
⩥ Personality Disorder (be able to identify a trait). Answer: people that
have traits that are inflexible and maladaptive that they are unable to
function effectively or meet the demands of their culture.
⩥ Summary of Personality Disorders. Answer: Summary of Personality
Disorders. Page 329
⩥ Cluster A. Answer: people seem odd or eccentric, with unusual
behavior ranging from distrust and suspiciousness to social detachment.
Paranoid Personality Disorder - suspicious, blames others
Schizoid Personality Disorder - lacks interest in forming social
relationships with others
Schizotypal Personality Disorder - oddities in thinking, talking and other
behaviors
⩥ Cluster B. Answer: Paranoid Personality Disorder - suspicious,
blames others
Histrionic Personality Disorder - excessive emotionality, overconcern
with physical attractiveness, self-dramatization
Narcissistic Personality Disorder - exaggerated sense of self-importance
,Antisocial Personality Disorder - violate rights of others
Psychopathy/Sociopathy
Borderline Personality Disorder - impulsivity and instability
⩥ Cluster C. Answer: these personality disorders show anxiety and fear.
Avoidant Personality Disorder - introversion and extreme social
inhibition
Dependent Personality Disorder - discomfort at possibility of separation
or being alone
Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder- a pervasive pattern of
preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and
interpersonal control, at the expense of flexibility
⩥ Know ALL PDs MUST be impairing. Answer: Social, Academic &
Occupational functioning
⩥ Fetishism. Answer: sexual pleasure from inanimate objects
⩥ Transvestic Fetishism. Answer: sexual pleasure to cross dress, if they
experience impairment or distress
⩥ Voyeurism. Answer: recurrent, intensive sexually arousing fantasies,
urges, or behaviors involving the observation of unsuspecting people
who are undressing or couples engaging in sexual activity.
, ⩥ Exhibitionistic Disorder (Exhibitionism). Answer: showing genitals to
someone in inappropriate circumstances and without their consent.
⩥ Sadism. Answer: the tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual
gratification, from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others.
⩥ Masochism. Answer: a person experiences pleasure from being
dominated and made to experience pain.
⩥ Pedophilic. Answer: pleasure in having sexual relations with
prepubertal child 13 and younger.
⩥ Apotemnophilia. Answer: an overwhelming or obsessive desire to
have one or more healthy body parts and especially a limb removed by
amputation ... the characteristic findings of this fascinating disease
clearly distinguish apotemnophilia as a unique paraphilia.
⩥ Is transexualism a paraphilia?. Answer:
⩥ Gender Dysmorphia. Answer: characterized by persistent distress
resulting from a perceived mismatch between one's assigned gender at
birth and their gender identity. Can be diagnosed at childhood or
adulthood.
