Week 6 Flashcards
(46 cards)
Define “personality traits”
An enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and others.
What are “personality disorders”?
Personality disorders are ingrained patterns of relating to other people, situations, and events with a rigid and maladaptive pattern.
True or False:
Studies have discovered that in Norway, German, and UK have lower internalizing disorders such as avoidant personality.
False. Those countries tend to have higher rates of internalizing disorders.
What are internalizing disorders?
Personality disorders where the person’s symptoms primarily show internally.
True or False:
External disorders such as anti-social personality or borderline personality disorders are higher in the US.
True.
What is “avoidant personality disorder”?
A pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy and hypersensitivity to negative evaluation.
What are symptoms of avoidant personality disorder?
A person will tend to:
Avoid social occupations that involve significant interpersonal contact.
Is unwilling to get involved with people unless certain of being liked.
Is preoccupied with being criticized in social situation.
What is the difference between people with social anxiety and people with avoidant personality disorder?
People with social anxiety avoid socially threatening situations but view themselves a competent.
People with avoidant personality disorders have low self-esteem and believe they are inferior and deserve rejection.
What is “Hikikomori”?
Hikikomori means “pulling inward, being confined” as in socially. It is a Japanese term to refer to the phenomenon of reclusive adolescents or young adults in their 20’s who withdraw from social life and often seek isolation or confinement.
What is “antisocial personality disorder”?
A pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others.
What are symptoms of antisocial personality disorders?
A person will tend to:
Fail to conform to social norms with respect to lawful behavior.
Deceit and con others for personal profit or pleasure.
Be consistently irresponsible
Lack remorse
Why are males more likely to be diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder than females?
Males have a biological tendency toward aggression and male socialization toward externalization.
If a female is diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder, how can it manifest?
In females, it will manifest more with mood-related issues such as irritability and depression.
What is “relational aggression”
The damaging of another person’s status or reputation.
Define “pseudocare”
It is learned as a child that people “pretend to care”. Person’s with ASPD learn as an adult to pretend to care and act charming even though their motives and intentions may be sadistic.
True or False:
Mass killers or school shooters internalize blame.
False.
They externalize blame (externalization is a central feature of antisocial personality disorder) because they believe people did them wrong.
What are “victims of injustice” in regards to antisocial personality disorders and mass shootings?
Mass murders often see themselves as the victim because people treated them poorly.
What is Nihilism?
A philosophy of extreme skepticism maintaining that nothing in the world has a real existence.
Nothing has meaning and nothing is better than anything else.
How can nihilism push a person toward the decision to do a mass shooting?
A person with a nihilistic mentality may think “let’s destroy it all because nothing really matters”.
True or False:
A neuropsych view of nihilism suggests that if there is no goal, then no positive emotion and no reward chemical such as dopamine. Therefore, if you can’t say this is better than this then you don’t get positive emotions.
True.
What is a “feedback loop?
This is a treatment option for ASPD which is to develop method to allow people to receive feedback to correct their thinking about how they influence others.
Why may it be difficult for individuals with ASPD to empathize with how they hurt others?
ASPD individuals tend to have chronic accessibility (long-term priming) of their ideas that they are a victim of others.
What is one of the top behaviors that will improve happiness?
Letting go of resentment
What is catharsis?
The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions.
