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What Trait Is Most Clearly Associated With Positive Health Outcomes

Question: The controversy around the DSM revolved around different viewpoints from ________ and ________.

Answer: "old guard" clinicians; scientifically oriented psychologists

Question: Which disorder appears on the DSM-IV- TR Cluster A?

Answer: paranoid

Question: Ricky was just diagnosed with a personality disorder that fits into the detachment category of the DSM-5. What behaviors is he likely to display?

Answer: suspiciousness

Question: According to the textbook, Adolf Hitler exhibited many of the classic signs of which personality disorder?

Answer: narcissistic

Question: What two components define the "healthy personality"?

Answer: mental and physical health

Question: A description such as "emotional hemophilia" applies most accurately to which personality disorder?

Answer: borderline

Question: Research on the Type A Personality disorder has ________ in recent years.

Answer: declined

Question: Which disorder appears in the DSM-IV-TR Cluster C?

Answer: dependant

Question: An individual who consistently fears abandonment may suffer from which personality disorder?

Answer: borderline

Question: Someone who brags about her physical health and vitality in front of a friend going through chemotherapy exhibits a symptom of which personality disorder?

Answer: narcissistic

Question: What trait is most clearly associated with positive health outcomes?

Answer: conscientiousness

Question: Recent work suggests that problems with the endogenous opioid system are associated with which personality disorder?

Answer: borderline

Question: An individual who is typically irritable, aggressive, and irresponsible might have which personality disorder?

Answer: antisocial

Question: What is the common first impression someone has when they meet a person with narcissistic personality disorder?

Answer: They are charming and extraverted

Question: Which of the maladaptive personality traits in the DSM-5 captures many of the personality attributes associated with narcissism?

Answer: antagonism

Question: Lisa is known by her coworkers as a workaholic. What personality disorder might she suffer from?

Answer: obsessive-compulsive

Question: Which of the following is NOT accurate regarding some of the concerns that have been raised about the DSM?a.The labels in the DSM can be overused.b.The DSM system is not widely used by the psychiatric community.c.There is a tendency to pathologize morally repugnant and criminal behavior.d.There is little in the way of a clear definition of mental health in the DSM.

Answer: The DSM system is not widely used by the psychiatric community.

Question: The prevalence of narcissistic personality disorder ranges around the world from ________.

Answer: 0 percent to 6.2 percent

Question: Individuals with this personality disorder are prone to "splitting" the ways that they view other people in their lives.

Answer: borderline

Question: All of the following are reasons for why it is difficult to gather data on health EXCEPT ________.a.people may be unwilling to answer truthfully when asked about their healthb.death records are an unreliable way to measure healthc.people may not know how unhealthy they ared.public health records are confidential

Answer: death records are an unreliable way to measure health

Question: According to the DSM-IV-TR classification scheme, what are the Cluster C disorders?

Answer: dependent, avoidant, and obsessive-compulsive

Question: Which of the maladaptive personality traits in the DSM-5 bears the closest resemblance to low conscientiousness in the Big Five?

Answer: disinhibition

Question: Which French psychiatrist identified the problem known as madness without distortion ( manie sans delire)?

Answer: Philippe Pinel

Question: According to the textbook, one purpose of the DSM is to ________, and a second is to ________.

Answer: make psychiatric diagnosis more objective; facilitate insurance billing

Question: Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD) and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) are distinct in that OCPD generally doesn't include ________.

Answer: specific compulsions like obsessive hand washing

Question: Which of the maladaptive personality traits in the new section of the DSM-5 bears the closest resemblance to low extraversion in the Big Five?

Answer: detachment