What is schizoid personality Why is the salience or ability to focus and connect potential punishments important in training sociopathics? Schizoid personality disorder (SPD) is a personality disorder characterized by a lack of interest in social relationships, sometimes sexually apathetic, a tendency towards a solitary lifestyle, secretiveness, and emotional coldness. When sociopathics don't understand that they could have avoided a punishment they tend to act in sociopathic ways. What is histronic personality Histrionic personality disorder is characterized by a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking, including an excessive need for approval and inappropriate seductiveness, usually beginning in early adulthood. What is narcissistic personality disorder The narcissist is described as being excessively preoccupied with issues of personal adequacy, power, prestige and vanity.
What is schizotypal personality disorder Schizotypal personality disorder is characterized by a pattern of intropersonal deficits with an acute discomfort in close relationships as well as cognitive/perceptual, and behavioral eccentrisies. What are ideas of reference? People with schizotypal personality disorder may have the belief that unrelated events pertain to them in some important way. What are bodily illusions Bodily illusion are commonly found in people with schizotypal personality disorder and is the belief by a person that they have extrasensory gifts. What is digressive speech? Digressive speech is a main characteristic in schitzotypal personality disorder where the person converses in a vague manner, with overly elaborate statements.
What are positive symptoms? Positive symptoms of schizotypal personality disorder include magical thinking and ideas of reference. What are negative symptoms? Negative symptoms of schizotypal personality disorder include constricted emotions and lack of friendship. What is backward masking? Backward masking is a laboratory test for schizoprenia and schizotypal personality disorder that makes a subject identify a visual stimulus immediately after a previous stimulus has flashed on and off the screen. What is dopamine? Dopamine is a neurotransmitter in the brain that is known when in high levels to be a biological factor for schizotypal personality disorder.
What are enlarged brain ventricles? Enlarged brain ventricles are known to be a biological factor in schizotypal personality disorder. What are odd personality disorders? Odd personality disorders are those that have eccentric behaviors it includes paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders. What are dramatic personality disorders? Dramatic personality disorders are those that have erratic or emotional behaviors includes antisocial, borderline, histronic, and narcissistic personality disorders. What are anxious personality disorders? Anxious personality disorders are those that have fearful or anxious behaviors includes of avoidant, dependant, and obsessivecompulsive personality disorders.
What is validity? Validity is accuracy of a diagnosis or test result. What is reliability? Reliability is the the consistancy of the diagnosis or test result. What are schizoprenia-spectrum disorders? The schizoprenia-spectrum disorders are the personality disorders that are believed to be related to schizoprenia because they share some of the same behaviors as it. What is paranoid personality Paranoid personality disorder is where the person has a pattern of pervasive distrust and suspicion.
What is separation? Separation is a problem in dependant personality disorder where persons feel completely helpless when close relationships end. What is obsessive-compulsive personality Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is a personality disorder where a person is so preoccupied with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control that it affects their flexibility, openness, and efficiency. What does it mean to be egodystonic? To be ego-dystonic means that a person does not want the symptoms of their disorder. What does it mean to be egosyntonic? To be ego-syntonic means that a person will often embrace their symptoms and rareley wishes to resist them.
What does it mean to be anal regressive? To be anal regressive is a Freudian theory where people with disorders like OCD remain fixated in the anal stage of development. What is passive-aggressive personality The passive-aggressive personality disorder was dropped by the DSM- IV where a person shows a pattern of negative attitudes and of passive-resistance to the demands of others. What is negativistic personality disorder A negativistic personality disorder, is what we once called passive aggressive personality disorder. What is neurotic character Neurotic character disorder is the clinical category that was the precursor for personality disorder.
What is intermittent explosive Intermittent explosive disorder is a rare impulse control disorder; found mostly men, where aggressive outbursts occur seriously hurting people and destroying property with very little provocation. What is trichatillomania? Trichatillomania is an impulse control disorder where a person will repeatedly pull out hair from various parts of their bodies particularily from the scalp eyebrows and eyelashes. What is borderline personality Borderline personality disorder is characterized by the person showing major shifts in moods, an unstable self-image, and marked impulsivity, which makes most of their close relationships unstable. What is a manifest task? A manifest task is a visible or know goal of a task or test.
What is the latent task? A latent task is a hidden goal of a task or test. What is avoidant personality Avoidant personality disorder is a psychiatric condition in which a person has a lifelong pattern of feeling extremely shy, inadequate, and sensitive to rejection. What are social circumstances? Social situations are feared by people with a social phobia. What are social relationships? Social relationships are feared by people with personality disorders.
What is dependant personality Dependant personality disorder is where a person has a persistent need to be taken care of and as result are clingy and submissive because they fear separation. What is antisocial personality disorder This with antisocial personality disorder is often called psychopathic or sociopathic as person displays a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of other people s rights. What is Comorbidity? Comorbidity occures when a person with an axis 2 disorder may also suffer from an axis 1 disorder. What is mirroring? Mirroring is an important process for children in the developing a sense of self.
What are impulse control disorders? Impulse control disorders are where a person can't resist the urge to do something harmful to themselves or others. What is a conduct Conduct disorder is characterized by repetitive and persistent pattern that they violate others rights. What is ADHD? ADHD is characterized by extreme problems with attentiveness, over activity, and impulsivity. What is pyromania? Pyromania is an impulse control disorder where there is a repeated and deliberate setting of fires to achieve intense pleasure or relief of tension.
What is arson? Arson is the setting of fires for revenge or gain or because of psychotic delusion. What is kleptomania? Kleptomania is an impulse control disorder where persons have the inability to resist the urge to not for gain, anger, revenge, or in response to delusion or hallucination it is to give relief from the sudden tension. What is pathological gambling? Pathological gambling is an impulse control disorder where person has persistent and maladaptive gambling behavior that disrupts personal, family, or vocational pursuits. What is a personality? A personality is a unique and enduring pattern of inner experience and outward behavior.
What are personality traits? Personality traits are enduring consistencies that are the results of intrinsic characteristics, learned responses, or a combination of the two. What is a personality A personality disorder is an inflexible pattern of inner experience and outward behavior.