PSYB30H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Personality Disorder, Mental Disorder, Trait Theory
Document Summary
The building blocks of personality disorder: the symptoms of personality disorders can be seen as maladaptive variations within several of the domains. Extremes of either end of specific trait dimensions can be associated with personality disorders: motivation is another basic building block of personality trait that is important to understanding personality disorders. Motives describe what people want and why they behave in particular ways: cognition consists of mental activity involved in perceiving=, interpreting, and planning. Personality disorders typically involve an impairment of social judgement. Each of the personality disorders involves some distortion in the perception of other persons and altered social cognition: emotions. Most personality disorders have an emotional core that is an important component to understanding that disorder: self-concept, is the person"s own collection of self-knowledge one"s understand of oneself. With most personality disorders, there is some distortion in the self-concept. Most of us are able to build and maintain a stable and realistic image of ourselves.
