PSY 309 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Antisocial Personality Disorder, Negative Affectivity, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

• School: University of Oregon
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 309
• Professor: Nicholas Allen

Document Summary

There will be the fourth quiz on wednesday next week (may 31st) Personality is enduring patterns of behavior perceiving, feeling, thinking about, relating to one"s self and the environment. Personality trait prominent aspect that is relatively consistent across time and situations. Described by ocean: openness, contentiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, neuroticism/negative emotionality replicated across cultures strong genetic association. High on this facet: (open) the most extreme is psychosis dreamers unrealistic self-aware unconventional permissive. 10 distinct personality disorders grouped into three clusters: dsm acknowledges that these clusters is not particularly well validated due to comorbidity. Personality disorder clusters: cluster a: odd-eccentric: symptoms similar to schizophrenia, flat affect, odd though and speech patterns, paranoia: paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal. Magic thinking, lucky charms, etc : cluster b: dramatic-emotional: manipulative, volatile, uncaring in social relationships, impulsive, little regard for safety of self/others: antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic. One of the subsets is psychopaths: cluster c: anxious-fearful: extremely concerned about being criticized or abandoned by others, have dysfunctional relationships.