PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Grey Matter, Grandiosity, Attention Seeking

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Guergana Roumenova Mileva;

Document Summary

Personality features make up a person: characteristics that are static over time and across situatons, these are called traits. One predominant maladaptive: characterizes by a single dominate dysfunctional trait, personality traits are inflexible, distress and impairment. Not for themselves but for other people. Greek philosophers talked of man without moral feeling. Niccolo machiavelli: the prince, unscupulos, manipulative, amoral and deceptive behavior, manipulative and deceptive was not a bad thing. If you have these traits make you more likely to be treated poorly by people: would(cid:374)"t (cid:271)e a good frie(cid:374)d of (cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)er of so(cid:272)iety (cid:449)ith these traits. Pinel- diagnosed madness without delirium: deficits in emotion. Cluster a: odd and eccentric disroders: paranoid, schizois, and schizotypal, least likely to seek help. Cluster b: dramatic, emotional or erratic disorder (least prevalent: antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissitic, most liekly to seek help. Cluster c: anxious and fearful disorder: avodiant, dependent and obsessive-compulsive, second liely to seek help.