PSYC 407 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Telepathy, Superficial Charm, Fire-Setting
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All the characteristic ways a person behaves and thinks. Causing subjective distress (not always) and/or significant functional impairment. Enduring and relatively stable predispositions: patterns of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and oneself that are seen in a wide range of personal and social contexts. Categorical vs. dimensional views of personality disorders. They are extreme versions of personality traits. This distinction (the degree part) can be more clearly conceptualized as a dimension. Gender can be seen as either/or or along a continuum. Either you do or don"t have a personality disorders. Reification: we tend to believe that is it real because it is a diagnosis. One example: five-factor model (costa and mccrae, 1990). Agreeableness: kind and warm vs. distrustful, selfish, and. Neuroticism: even-tempered vs. nervous, moody, and hostile. temperamental. Negative attitudes toward routine demands and expectations. Early learning that people and the world is a dangerous place.
