PSY 304 Final Exam Questions With
Correct Answers
Personality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-set of uniquely expressed
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characteristics that influence our behaviors, emotions, thoughts, and
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interactions
Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--an enduring, rigid pattern
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of inner experience and outward behavior that impairs sense of self,
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emotional experience, goals, and capacity for empathy and/or intimacy
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-typically becomes noticeable in adolescence or early adulthood
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-most difficult disorders to treat
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-most are not even aware
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Cluster A: odd/eccentric behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-paranoid,
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schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders
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Cluster B: dramatic/emotional/erratic behavior - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic | | | | |
personality disorders |
, Cluster C: anxious/fearful behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-avoidant,
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dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders
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Paranoid Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-deep distrust
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and suspicion of others, remains cold and distant, critical of weakness
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Schizoid Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-persistent
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avoidance of social relationships, limited emotional expression, prefer
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to be alone, cold, humorless
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Schizotypal Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-characterized
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by a range of interpersonal problems, marked by extreme discomfort in
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close relationships, odd ways of thinking and behavioral eccentricities,
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can't focus, unproductive life
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Antisocial Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-"psychopaths"
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or "sociopaths", persistently disregard and violate others' rights, linked
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to adult criminal behavior, must be 18 or older to be diagnosed, but
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patterns are displayed before the age of 15, lie repeatedly, reckless,
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impulsive, little regard for others, cruel, aggressive
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-more common in men
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-high rates of alcoholism
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-usually arrested |
-children w/ ADHD or conduct disorder have higher risks
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Correct Answers
Personality - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-set of uniquely expressed
| | | | | | |
characteristics that influence our behaviors, emotions, thoughts, and
| | | | | | | |
interactions
Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔--an enduring, rigid pattern
| | | | | | |
of inner experience and outward behavior that impairs sense of self,
| | | | | | | | | | | |
emotional experience, goals, and capacity for empathy and/or intimacy
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-typically becomes noticeable in adolescence or early adulthood
| | | | | | |
-most difficult disorders to treat
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-most are not even aware
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Cluster A: odd/eccentric behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-paranoid,
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schizoid and schizotypal personality disorders
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Cluster B: dramatic/emotional/erratic behavior - CORRECT
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ANSWER✔✔-antisocial, borderline, narcissistic, and histrionic | | | | |
personality disorders |
, Cluster C: anxious/fearful behavior - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-avoidant,
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dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders
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Paranoid Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-deep distrust
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and suspicion of others, remains cold and distant, critical of weakness
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Schizoid Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-persistent
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avoidance of social relationships, limited emotional expression, prefer
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to be alone, cold, humorless
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Schizotypal Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-characterized
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by a range of interpersonal problems, marked by extreme discomfort in
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close relationships, odd ways of thinking and behavioral eccentricities,
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can't focus, unproductive life
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Antisocial Personality Disorder - CORRECT ANSWER✔✔-"psychopaths"
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or "sociopaths", persistently disregard and violate others' rights, linked
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to adult criminal behavior, must be 18 or older to be diagnosed, but
| | | | | | | | | | | | |
patterns are displayed before the age of 15, lie repeatedly, reckless,
| | | | | | | | | | |
impulsive, little regard for others, cruel, aggressive
| | | | | |
-more common in men
| | |
-high rates of alcoholism
| | |
-usually arrested |
-children w/ ADHD or conduct disorder have higher risks
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