Psych Test 3
neuroticism or negative affectivity
stable/heritable personality trait that involves a temperament sensitivity to negative stimuli *vulnerability factor for depression (as well as anxiety)
Five Factor Model
A dimensional perspective that posits that everyone's personality is organized along five broad personality traits: negative emotionality, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness
Personality Trait
A prominent aspect of personality that is relatively consistent across time and across situations
Personality
Enduring patterns of perceiving, feeling, thinking about, and relating oneself and the environment
Personality Disorder general def
Individuals personality pattern must deviate from the expectations of his or her culture as shown in the styles of thinking about oneself, others, or events ;emotional experience and expression, impulse control interpersonal functioning. An individual's personality pattern must be pervasive and inflexible across situations, be stable over time, and have an onset in adolescence or early adulthood, and lead to significant distress or impairment
The first model is categorical in defiance 10 different personality disorders in terms of distinct criteria sets. The categorical model is intended for current clinical use. And alternative trait specific, or dimensional, model was developed for DSM-5.
It makes you sneeze of a Continuum model all the personality disorders such that represented in the big five model.