Personality Flashcards
(26 cards)
What is a personality?
A cluster of relatively predictable patterns of thinking, feeling and behaving that is pretty much consistent
What are the categories of the Five-Factor Model of personality?
Socail adaptability Conformity Will to achieve Emotional control Inquiring intellect
What are the 5 categories of the structure of personality?
Neuroticism Openness Conscientioussness Agreeableness Extraversion
What is cognition?
Ways of perceiving things/people
Wha is affectivity?
Response to emotion
What are the four important factors regarding a personality disorder?
Cognition
Affectivity
Interpersonal functioning
Impulse control
Describe the enduring pattern with regards to a personality disorder?
Inflexible and pervasive across a broad rangeof personal and social situations
In personality disorder, what does the enduring pattern lead to?
Clinically significant distress or impairement in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning
Is the pattern stable/unstable and long/short?
Stable and long, onset can be traced back to adolescence or childhood
Is the pattern attributable to the physiological effects of a substance or medical condition?
No
What 8 features make up an Anankastic personality disorder?
1) feelings of excessive doubt/caution
2) Preoccupation with details/rules etc
3) Perfectionism
4) Excessive conscientiousness and scrupulousness
5) Undue preoccupation with productivity to exclusion of pleasure and interpersonal relationships
6) Excessive pedantry and adherence to social conventions
7) Rigidity and stubborness
8) Unreasonable resistance, my way or high way
When does a trait become a disorder?
when it is pervasive and causes distress/impairement
What is the proportion of people with a personality disorder?
1 in 10
What proportion of psychiatirc oupatients have a personality disorder?
1 in 3
What are cluster A personality disorders?
Odd and eccentric:
Paranoid PD 0.7%
Schizoid PD 0.8%
What are cluster B personality disorders?
Dramatic and emotional:
Antisocial PD
Borderline PD
Histrionic PD
What are cluster C personality disorders?
Anxious and avoidant:
Avoidant PD
Dependant PD
Obsessive-Compulsive PD
What’s the difference between antisocial and psychopathy?
Antisocial is based on behaviour
Psychopathy describes deficits in emotional and cognitive functioning
What factors are involved in Psychopathy?
Interpersonal/Afffective
Social deviance
What facets of psychopathy are related to the Interpersonal/Affective factor?
Interpersonal and affective
What facets of psychopathy are related to the social devience factor?
Lifestyle and Antisocial
How do you treat personality disorders?
By treating the comorbidities, e.g. depression, anxiety etc.
What is Dialectical Behavoural Therapy (DBT)?
A complex package of groups, firm boundaries and managing interpersonal issues
Attempts to combine behavioural approaches with buddhist concepts such as acceptance and mindfulness
What can Topiramate treat?
Anger and aggression
