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Lecture 80: Personality Flashcards

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Temperament

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Biologically based behavioral and emotional tendencies; present in early life and stage

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Personality

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Temperament PLUS the world; characteristic way one thinks, feels, behaves

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Components of neural network model

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Behavioral approach and inhibition system

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4 types of kids from classic study of infant temperament

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Easy, difficult, slow to warm (shy, withdrawal from novel stimuli), unable to classify

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Eysenck factors in adult personality

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Extravertism/introversion + low/high neuroticism –> 4 types of personalities

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Infant behavioral inhibition associated with…

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Inhibition (maybe event anxiety) throughout life

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Five factor model

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Openness vs close-mindedness; conscientiousness vs negligence; extraversion vs introversion; agreeableness vs antagonism; neuroticism vs emotional stability

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The five factor model is…

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Reliable, reproducible, cross-cultural, and predictable of health outcomes

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Extraversion (def and association)

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Sociable, expressive; positive emotions

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Neuroticism (def and association)

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Anxious, self-conscious, irritabile; negative emotions and vulnerability to psychopathology

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Conscientiousness (def and association)

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Responsible, persistent, thinking before acting; inhibit impulses to follow rules –> career success and longer life

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Agreeableness (def and association)

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Kind, affectionate, cooperative; understanding others’ emotions, positive relationships

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Openness to experience (def and association)

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Imaginative, curious, eager; process abstract/uncertainty, intelligence

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T/F: Is personality stable over time?

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Somewhat true: temperament tends to be stable will personality might change

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What could cause innate personality traits to appear?

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Stress, new situations

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T/F: Strong genetic influences on temperament and personality

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True

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The most important contributor to variations in personality may be…

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A person’s unique “non-shared” environment

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What is a good example of gene x environment interaction?

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Parent-child interaction: children with high negative emotionality (“difficult”) causes in less parent involvement, resulting in greater vulnerability when children encounter stress

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Neuroticism predicts encountering…and vice versa? Holds even when…

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Negative events; extraversion predicts positive events; holds for subjective reports and objective measures corrected for reporting bias

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Fetal programming hypothesis

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Fetusadjusts phenotype on basis of maternal nutritional & hormonal cues about the outside world, as a means of optimally adapting to the (anticipated) conditions of the postnatal environment

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Risk factors for psychiatric disorders (4)

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High neuroticism; low conscientiousness, agreeableness, extraversion

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Harm avoidance is associated with…

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Mood/anxiety disorders

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What kids of personality traits are related to poor health outcomes? (4)

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Pessimistic explanatory style (self-blame), less agreeable/conscientiousness, more neuroticism

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What kids of personality traits are related to good health outcomes? (7)

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Easy going, self-regulating, flexible, positive emotionality, sociable, high attention focusing on tasks, OPTIMISM

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Optimistic patients have a larger response to...
Placebos!
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How to become more optimistic?
Reframing: 2 weeks of daily 5-min sessions of imagining one’s best possible self can temporarily increase optimism
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Personality disorder (def)
Enduring pattern of inner experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual’s culture
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Personality disorder manifests in these four domains...
Cognition, affectivity, interpersonal functioning, impulse control
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Personality disorder must be...(3)
Inflexible and pervasive; causing clinically significant distress/impairment
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A personality develops fully during what life stage? Compare to temperament
Early adulthood; temperament is earlier
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What is a primary reason for the breakdown between Axis I and II
Increasingly understood that all psychiatry disorders are the result of a gene by environment interaction (e.g. Axis I can be environment, Axis II can be genes)
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Cluster A
Odd/eccentric (psychotic): paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal
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Cluster B
Dramatic, emotional, erratic ("bad" or manic): antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic
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Cluster C
Anxious, fearful (anxiety): avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive
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Paranoid
Irrational suspicions/mistrust
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Schizoid
Lack of interest in social relationships
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Schizotypal
Characterized by odd behavior/thinking (on schizophrenia spectrum)
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Antisocial
Disregard for the law, rights of others
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Borderline
Extreme "black and white" thinking, instable in relationships, self-harm and impulsivity
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Histrionic
Attention-seeking, seductive, exaggerated emotions
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Narcissistic
Grandiosity, need for admiration, lack of empathy
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Avoidant
Social inhibition/avoidance
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Dependent
Psychological dependence on others
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Obsessive-compulsive
Conformity to rules, moral codes, excessive oderliness
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Prevalence of PDs by cluster (%); total (%)
A and C ~6%, B 1.5%; 9%
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% of those diagnosed w/ a PD are female...
75%
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Describe schizotypal PD
Discomfort/reduced capacity for close relationships AND cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior
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Schizotypal PD often seeks treatment for...How is it similar to schizophrenia? Treatment?
Anxiety, depression; some of the cognitive ("hypofrontality") problems as schizophrenia; if they are very distressed, they could be treated w/ low doses of antipsychotics
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Antisocial PD is marked by a lack of? More likely to die from...Treatment? Hypoactive?
Remorse; violent means; no good treatment; amygdala
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Instability in Borderline PD (3 broad realms)
Emotional/affective, behavioral, interpersonal
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Describe Borderline PD (4)
Avoid abandonment, unstable interpersonal relationships, self-damaging impulsiveness, suicidal tendencies
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A personal with Borderline PD may complain of...
Chronic feelings of emptiness
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% gender in Borderline PD. Some reasons why (2)?
75%; sampling bias/higher rates of sexual trauma?
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Describe the aging borderline patient and treatment
Improves with age (fewer suicides, better relationships); psychotherapy (DBT)
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What brain region might be hyperactive in borderline? What about hypoactivity? What about general "dysfunction"?
Amygdala; frontal regions; insula
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Is childhood trauma necessary and/or sufficient for Borderline PD?
NO: not all w/ trauma become borderline and not all borderlines have trauma
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Is there a genetic factor for Borderline PD?
Yes: might just inherit personality types, not the whole disorder; genes x env't very important
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When treating a borderline patient, it's important to...Treatment should focus on...Meds (3 categories)?
Manage your own countertransference; self-destructive behaviors and improving emotional regulation; serotonergic for impulsivity, antipsychotics if symptoms exist, mood stabilizers for emotional lability
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Describe Avoidant PD (3) and how it is different from schizoid or schizotypal?
Feelings of inadequacy; subjective sense of being “socially inept;” sensitive to criticism; unlike schizoid/schizotypal --> desire affection and acceptance

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