Abnormal Psychology Pract. Ch. 16

A person who does poorly on a task called backward masking is MOST likely to be experiencing:

schizotypal personality disorder.

Digressive and vague language with loose associations accompanied by attention and concentration problems are characteristic of:

schizotypal personality disorder.

"Let's try to figure out where clients fall on several key personality traits, rather than using a dichotomous classification system." Someone saying this would MOST likely favor which approach to classifying personality disorders?

a dimensional approach

There is a game called Moods where one acts out the mood listed on a card. Being encouraged to play this game is most like the treatment _____ might use for those with schizoid disorders.

cognitive therapists

A client being treated for avoidant personality disorder must increase the number of social contacts per day. The person, at the least, must greet others with the sentence, "Hello; how are you doing?" MOST likely, the therapist has which theoretical background?

cognitive-behavioral

Assume a study of prison inmates diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder shows that they generally experience less anxiety than other people when they lie or when they con others. This outcome would MOST strongly support which theoretical position?

biological

Camila felt like she was on an emotional roller coaster. She felt angry and empty. Camila's feelings are MOST similar to those of someone with which personality disorder?

borderline

People with _____ personality disorder are emotionally unstable, impulsive, and reckless.

borderline

The inability to accurately interpret one's internal biological emotional or physiological states is characteristic of both:

borderline personality disorder and eating disorders.

People with avoidant personality disorder have difficulty _____ relationships, whereas people with dependent personality disorder have difficulty _____ relationships

initiating; ending

One similarity of those experiencing paranoid personality disorder and those experiencing schizoid personality disorder is that they both tend to:

lack close ties to others

What percentage of the population has dependent personality disorder?

less than one percent

Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder is MOST common among:

men with jobs.

A group of diagnostic clinicians can't agree with each other on appropriate personality disorder diagnoses for several clients. In fact, it is obvious that, in many cases, they have inaccurately made their diagnoses. Assuming they are competent clinicians, this situation would indicate the DSM-5 categories for personality disorder are:

neither reliable nor valid

People with _____ are so preoccupied with order, perfection, and control that they lose all flexibility, openness, and efficiency.

obsessive-compulsive personality disorder

The consistencies of one's characteristics are called:

personality traits

Which trait is common in people with antisocial personality disorder?

recklessness

An individual with a diagnosis of an odd personality disorder is MOST likely to have a parent or sibling who has:

schizophrenia

The schizoid personality disorder differs from paranoid personality disorder in that:

those with schizoid personality disorder desire to be alone; those with paranoid personality are alone because of suspiciousness.

The parents of those with schizoid personality disorder are MOST likely to have been:

unaccepting.