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Which of the following statements about personality disorders is true? |
| | A) | By definition, personality disorders must be present continuously since childhood. |
| | B) | The majority of people diagnosed with one personality disorder meet the diagnostic criteria for at least one other personality disorder. |
| | C) | Since personality disorders are treated differently than acute disorders by the DSM-IV-TR, they are placed on Axis III of the diagnostic system. |
| | D) | Because they are more debilitating, people with personality disorders seek treatment more often than people with acute disorders. |
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Choose the answer below that contains an odd-eccentric personality disorder listed next to (a), a dramatic-emotional personality disorder listed next to (b), and an anxious-fearful personality disorder listed next to (c). |
| | A) | (a) schizoid personality disorder;
(b) dependent personality disorder;
(c) obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. |
| | B) | (a) obsessive-compulsive personality disorder;
(b) paranoid personality disorder;
(c) avoidant personality disorder. |
| | C) | (a) paranoid personality disorder;
(b) borderline personality disorder;
(c) dependent personality disorder. |
| | D) | (a) obsessive-compulsive personality disorder;
(b) dependent personality disorder;
(c) schizoid personality disorder. |
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Which of the following is not a criticism of the DSM-IV-TR criteria for personality disorders? |
| | A) | It is difficult to obtain reliable diagnoses of personality disorders. |
| | B) | It describes the disorders as extreme versions of normal personality traits. |
| | C) | The personality disorders are conceptualized as stable characteristics of an individual. |
| | D) | Information required for a personality disorder diagnosis is often hard to obtain from clients. |
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Which of the following is not a cognitive oddity exhibited by people with schizotypal personality disorder? |
| | A) | odd beliefs and magical thinking |
| | B) | illusions |
| | C) | dissociative thinking |
| | D) | ideas of reference |
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People diagnosed with schizotypal personality disorder: |
| | A) | lose all contact with reality. |
| | B) | have a restricted range of emotions. |
| | C) | have hallucinations and delusions. |
| | D) | can handle most social situations. |
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Persons who are manipulative, volatile, uncaring in social relationships and prone to impulsive behaviors best fit into which cluster of personality disorders? |
| | A) | odd-eccentric |
| | B) | anxious-fearful |
| | C) | schizotypal |
| | D) | dramatic-emotional |
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People with little self-control and no concern for the rights of others have been recognized under various names throughout the past two centuries. Which of the following is not a term that has been used to describe this disorder? |
| | A) | mentally damaged |
| | B) | moral insanity |
| | C) | psychopathic |
| | D) | antisocial personality |
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Which of the following statements is false in regards to antisocial personality disorder? |
| | A) | People with antisocial personality disorder are more likely than those diagnosed with other personality disorders to have low levels of education. |
| | B) | The tendency to engage in antisocial behaviors often begins in childhood and is one of the most stable personality characteristics. |
| | C) | People with antisocial personality disorder have difficulty in inhibiting impulsive behaviors. |
| | D) | People with antisocial personality disorder have a great fear of danger and therefore seek a routine that eliminates unexpected events. |
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People with antisocial personality disorder exhibit all of the following except: |
| | A) | deficits in the parietal lobes of the brain. |
| | B) | low levels of arousability. |
| | C) | deficits in executive functions. |
| | D) | deficits in verbal skills. |
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The personality disorder characterized by instability and attributed to "splitting" by object relations theorists is: |
| | A) | paranoid personality disorder. |
| | B) | dependent personality disorder. |
| | C) | borderline personality disorder. |
| | D) | narcissistic personality disorder. |
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Dialectical behavior therapy focuses on all of the following except: |
| | A) | increasing dichotomous thinking. |
| | B) | regulating emotions. |
| | C) | learning how to problem-solve. |
| | D) | decreasing impulsive behavior. |
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People with _____ personality disorder are high users of outpatient mental health services and their risk of attempting suicide is very high. |
| | A) | borderline |
| | B) | antisocial |
| | C) | avoidant |
| | D) | narcissistic |
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The personality disorder that is diagnosed more often in women than in men and is characterized by rapidly shifting emotions, unstable relationships, and highly dramatic and seductive behaviors performed to gain the attention and approval of others, is known as: |
| | A) | narcissistic personality disorder. |
| | B) | dependent personality disorder. |
| | C) | histrionic personality disorder. |
| | D) | antisocial personality disorder. |
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People with narcissistic personality disorder: |
| | A) | see dependency on others as weak and dangerous. |
| | B) | are hypersensitive to the needs and wants of others. |
| | C) | do poorly in societies that reward assertiveness. |
| | D) | view themselves as inferior to others. |
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Psychodynamic treatment of dependent personality disorder includes all of the following except: |
| | A) | graded exposure to anxiety-provoking situations. |
| | B) | free association. |
| | C) | dream interpretation. |
| | D) | interpretation of the transference process. |
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Anxious-fearful personality disorders include all of the following except: |
| | A) | avoidant personality disorder. |
| | B) | dependent personality disorder. |
| | C) | obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. |
| | D) | histrionic personality disorder. |
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The personality disorder that is characterized by rigidness, perfectionism and emotional blockage is: |
| | A) | avoidant personality disorder. |
| | B) | dependent personality disorder. |
| | C) | obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. |
| | D) | histrionic personality disorder. |
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The "Big 5" personality factors: |
| | A) | include integrity. |
| | B) | are strongly influenced by genetics. |
| | C) | capture little of the variation in people's personalities. |
| | D) | are only relevant to American culture. |
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The five-factor model suggests that the DSM should consider a new personality disorder characterized by: |
| | A) | eccentric extraversion. |
| | B) | aggressive self-importance. |
| | C) | social avoidance. |
| | D) | antagonistic closed-mindedness. |
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Critics of dimensional models, such as the five-factor model, have noted: |
| | A) | a lack of emphasis on empirical research. |
| | B) | an over-emphasis on research that focuses on the small proportion of the population that has extreme personality disturbances. |
| | C) | that there is no answer to the question of where we should draw cutoffs between what is normal and what is pathological. |
| | D) | that they describe personality theories well but fall short of describing normal personality well. |
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