Question: It is common for a person with a personality disorder to also suffer from another disorder, a relationship called: prevalence. diathesis. comorbidity. incidence.

Answer: comorbidity.

Question: This is an enduring, rigid pattern of inner experience and outward behavior that impairs one's sense of self, emotional experiences, goals, capacity for empathy, and sometimes capacity for intimacy. trait dysregulation disorder personality disorder multifactor trait disorder schizophrenia with traitlike features

Answer: personality disorder

Question: The symptoms of personality disorders typically become recognizable in: childhood. early to mid-adulthood. adolescence or early adulthood. infancy.

Answer: adolescence or early adulthood.

Question: Marta works as a long-distance truck driver. She goes days, and even weeks sometimes, with little to no contact with other people, except at gas stations, restaurants, and motels. She spends 99 percent of her time by herself, rarely expresses emotions, and has little interest in romance or sex. She has no friends to speak of, and she genuinely prefers to be alone. Marta might BEST be described as suffering from _____ personality disorder. antisocial avoidant socially phobic schizoid

Answer: schizoid

Question: With regard to treating individuals with paranoid personality disorder: these individuals do not typically see themselves as needing help and so do not enter treatment. token economies have been found to be an effective treatment. antipsychotic drugs are the preferred method of treatment since they are the most effective. anger management is often combined with drug therapy.

Answer: these individuals do not typically see themselves as needing help and so do not enter treatment.

Question: _____ drugs prescribed in low doses have been shown to be of some help to those suffering from schizotypal personality disorder. Antipsychotic Antianxiety Antidepressant Anticonvulsive

Answer: Antipsychotic

Question: Across studies, all these factors are thought to be common psychological characteristics related to mass murderers EXCEPT: desires for vigilantism. feelings of being persecuted or grossly mistreated. desires for revenge. feelings of anger and resentment.

Answer: desires for vigilantism.

Question: Which attachment style is associated with borderline personality disorder? secure insecure-avoidant disorganized insecure-anxious

Answer: disorganized

Question: People with this personality disorder are typically "emotionally charged" and constantly seeking to be the center of attention. dependent personality disorder narcissistic personality disorder borderline personality disorder histrionic personality disorder

Answer: histrionic personality disorder

Question: Believing that dichotomous, or "black-and-white," thinking plays a key role in producing and maintaining dependent personality disorder comes from the _____ perspective. cognitive-behavioral biosocial psychodynamic sociocultural

Answer: cognitive-behavioral

Question: People with this personality disorder experience extreme discomfort in social situations, severe sensitivity to negative evaluation, and overwhelming feelings of inadequacy, but they do desire to have intimate relationships. antisocial personality disorder schizotypal personality disorder avoidant personality disorder schizoid personality disorder

Answer: avoidant personality disorder

Question: Marian recently made the decision to try to re-wallpaper her kitchen—which, given her personality, was a mistake! To compound the mistake, she selected a complex wallpaper pattern that included flowers and trees. Each time she put a strip of paper on the wall, she became increasingly upset if the pattern of one strip didn't perfectly match the next strip. If one flower was off by as much as one-tenth of an inch, she would tear down the strip, remove the excess paste, and try again with the next strip. Eight hours after she started the job, she had succeeded in putting up only six strips of wallpaper, which only covered about 10 percent of the kitchen. Marian may suffer from _____ personality disorder. dependent narcissistic perfectionistic obsessive-compulsive

Answer: obsessive-compulsive

Question: Which personality disorder is currently of great concern for many theorists since they believe that gender and other cultural differences are significant in its development and diagnosis? antisocial personality disorder borderline personality disorder schizotypal personality disorder histrionic personality disorder

Answer: borderline personality disorder

Question: Many theorists believe that _____ is(are) a prerequisite for the development of borderline personality disorder, particularly for females. narcissism having children childhood traumas body shaming

Answer: childhood traumas

Question: Some theorists believe that borderline personality disorder is a special form of: schizophrenia. bipolar disorder. posttraumatic stress disorder. disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.

Answer: posttraumatic stress disorder.

Question: The trait of Machiavellianism includes all these characteristics EXCEPT: being manipulative. being unempathetic. being amoral. being self-interested.

Answer: being unempathetic.

Question: Which is NOT one of the groups of problematic traits that would be eligible for a diagnosis of personality disorder—trait specified? detachment negative affectivity antagonism inhibition

Answer: inhibition

Question: A number of theorists argue that it would be best to describe all people with personality disorders as being high, low, or in between on: Eysenck's two supertraits—introversion-extraversion and emotionality-stability. the supertraits of the Big Five model. Freud's personality dimensions of the id, ego, and superego. biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors.

Answer: the supertraits of the Big Five model.