PSY 2012 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Autonomic Nervous System, Heritability
Document Summary
Chronic, maladaptive cognitive-behavioral patterns integrate into personality. Extremely rigid maladaptive behavioral patterns: a class of mental disorders characterized by rigid, long-term patterns of inflexible and maladaptive behavior that keep a person from functioning appropriately in society. Avoidant: extreme social discomfort and timidity, feelings of inadequacy, fearfulness of being negatively evaluated. Dependent: extreme submissive and dependent behavior, fears of separation from those who satisfy dependency needs. Obsessive-compulsive: extreme perfectionism, orderliness, and inflexibility, preoccupied with mental and interpersonal control. Indifference to social relationships and experience; displays a restricted range of expressed emotions. Schizotypal: odd thoughts, appearance, and behavior; extreme discomfort in social situations. Paranoid: an unwarranted tendency to interpret the behavior of other people as threatening, exploiting, or harmful. Characterized by guiltlessness, law breaking, exploitation of others, irresponsibility, and deceit. Biological factors: genetically heritable, brain differences, autonomic nervous system differences. Psychopaths: subgroup of individuals with aspd, remorseless predators who engage in violence.
