PSY 150A1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dream Interpretation, Personality Disorder, Antisocial Personality Disorder

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Psychology Main
• Course: PSY 150A1
• Professor: Feldman

Document Summary

Psych 150: structure of mind and behavior - lecture 5: disorders continued & therapies. Enduring pattern of experience and behavior that differs greatly from the expectations of the individual"s culture. Leads to clinically significant distress or impairment. Stable & long duration (adolescent or early adulthood onset) No exact symptoms only variations on what is normal. Paranoid: distrust others and are suspicious of their motives. Histrionic: exaggerate emotions and go to excessive lengths to seek attention. Schizotypa: have little capacity for close relationship; also eccentric in behaviors perceptions, and thinking. Borderline: behave impulsively and their relationships,s elf-image, and emotions are unstable. ___ Schizoid: express only a limited range of emotion in social interactions;form few if any social relationships. Narcissistic: excessive sense of how important they are. They demand and expect to be admired and praised by others and are limited in their capacity to appreciate others" perspectives. _______ Avoidant: socially inhibited, usually feel inadequate and are overly sensitive to criticism.