PSYC 3410 Study Guide - Final Guide: Prefrontal Cortex, Biosocial Theory, Dsm-5
6 Feb 2016
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Personality a unique and enduring pattern of inner experience and. Personality traits result of inherited characteristics, learned responses, or. Personality disorder an inflexible pattern of inner experience and outward behaviour a combination of the two outward behaviour during childhood. Become recognizable in adolescence or early adulthood, although some start. 9-13% of all adults have a personality disorder. Axis i acute disorders that often begin as a noticeable change in a person"s usual behaviour and are, in many cases, of limited duration. Axis ii disorders of long standing that usually begin will before adulthood and continue into adult life. Personality disorders are axis ii patterns are not typically marked by changed in intensity or periods of clear improvement. Common for a person with a personality disorder also to suffer from an acute (axis i) disorder, comorbidity. Group 1: odd of eccentric behaviour: paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal. Group 2: dramatic behaviour: antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic.
