Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Histrionic Personality Disorder, Catatonia, Dementia Praecox

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Personality: an enduring set of characteristic one displays; enduring, difficult to change; relatively stable predispositions; ways you relate and think about the world. Five factor model of personality: agreeableness, extraversion, conscientiousness, neuroticism, openness to experience. Cross-cultural studies- these 5 dimension are universal. Personality disorders: predispositions are inflexible and maladaptive, causing distress and/or impairment, coded on axis ii of dsm-iv-tr interferes with treatment in axis i disorders. Categorical vs. dimensional views of personality disorder. Prevalence of personality disorders: about . 5-2. 5% of the general population; arguable more. Co-morbidity (with other psychological disorders) rates are high (poorer prognosis) Gender bias in diagnosis: gender differences may be due to bias of the diagnosing. Clinical features: pervasive and unjustified mistrust and suspicion. Causes: biological and psychological contributions are unclear; don"t know why they are so distrustful unless there was a childhood event that contributed to it, early learning that people and the world are dangerous.