PSY 3171 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Monoamine Oxidase, Social Alienation, Cerebral Cortex
19 Dec 2016
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Personality is characteristics or individual ways a person behaves and thinks. A personality disorder is a persistent pattern of emotions, cognitions, and behaviourur that results in enduring emotional distress for the person affected and/or for others and may cause difficulties with work and relationships. Debates within clinicians if personality disorders are simply extreme versions of otherwise normal personality traits. Most people see personality disorders as extremes on one or more personality dimensions. Personality traits can be seen on a dimension, however they are diagnosed as categories you either have the disorder or you don"t. Some argue that personality disorders are not things that exist but points at which society decides a particular way of relating to the world has become a problem. A newly proposed model suggests a continuum of disturbances of self . Little consensus on the basic personality dimensions, however the most prevalent is the big-5 theory of personality.
