Midterm Exam Flashcards
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These are disorders in which odd or eccentric behaviour is considered to be central.
Cluster A: Odd Disorder
A type of eccentric personality disorder. This means the behavior may seem odd or unusual to others. An individual with paranoid personality behavior has extreme suspicion of others.
Paranoid Personality Disorder
A type of eccentric personality disorder. A person with this disorder has behavior that is different from most other people.
Schizoid Personality Disorder
A personality disorder characterized by a need for social isolation, anxiety in social situations, odd behavior and thinking, and often unconventional beliefs.
Schizotypal Personality Disorder
The DSM-IV views these as a subset of personality disorders that are characterized by dramatic, emotional or erratic behavior.
Cluster B: Dramatic, Emotional, or Erratic
A pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others; pattern of irresponsibility, recklessness, impulsivity beginning in childhood or adolescence
Antisocial Personality Disorder
Is a pattern of instability in interpersonal relationships, self-image, and affects, and marked impulsivity; the pattern is present by early adulthood and occurs across a variety of situations and contexts.
Borderline Personality Disorder
A pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking; including inappropriately seductive behavior and an excessive need for approval, usually beginning in early adulthood.
Histrionic Personality Disorder
A pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy; excessively preoccupied with personal adequacy, power, prestige and vanity, mentally unable to see the destructive damage they are causing to themselves and to others in the process.
Narcissistic Personality Disorder
This cluster share a high level of anxiety for each disorder.
Cluster C: Anxious or Fearful
A long-standing need for the person to be taken care of and a fear of being abandoned or separated from important individuals in his or her life. This leads the person to engage in dependent and submissive behaviors that are designed to elicit care-giving behaviors in others.
Dependent Personality Disorder
Is an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce uneasiness, apprehension, fear or worry, repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing the associated anxiety, or a combination of such obsessions and compulsions
Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder
These are disorders in which an individual has recurrent, intense sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges or behaviors involving: (1) Non-human objects (2) Children or other non-consenting persons (3) suffering or humiliation of one’s self or partner
Paraphilia
Deriving sexual gratification from viewing or having sexual contact with a corpse.
Necrophilia
Deriving sexual pleasure from contact with feces.
Coprophilia
Deriving sexual pleasure from the use of enemas.
Klismaphilia
Deriving sexual pleasure from contact with urine.
Urophilia
Having sex with a sleeping person.
Somnaphilia
Having sex in front of others.
Autagonistophilia
Has uncontrollable sexual urges to sexually immature children (13 below)
Pedophilia
The person has intense sexual urges and arousing fantasies involving the exposure of genitals to a group of stranger/s.
Exhibitionism
Is where a person feels a strong recurrent sexual attraction to a nonliving object. People with this are always preoccupied with the object of desire, and they become dependent to it as an object for sexual gratification.
Fetishism
Are only interested in the sexual gratification from a specific body part, examples are feet, neck, underarms, back, etc.
Partialism
The individual is exposed to a different sexual stimulus other than the desired object.
Aversion Therapy