Identify the features and epidemiology of anxious/fearful, avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders
What will be an ideal response?
- anxious/fearful personality disorders include avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders
- avoidant personality disorder involves a pervasive pattern of anxiety, feelings of inadequacy, and social hypersensitivity
- dependent personality disorder involves a pervasive, excessive need to be cared for, leading to submissiveness, clinging behavior, and fears of separation
- obsessive-compulsive personality disorder involves a pre-expectation with orderliness, perfectionism, and control
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a) panic disorder b) bipolar disorder c) catatonic schizophrenia d) antisocial personality disorder
All of the following are associated with Freud's investigation of the unconscious except:
v a. free association. c. resistances. b. dream analysis. d. questionnaires.
Deindividuation is a feeling of anonymity that often results in
A. social facilitation. B. impulsive, deviant acts. C. prosocial behaviors. D. psychogenic illness
What information is presented on Axis I?
A. Major Clinical Syndromes B. Personality Disorders C. Psychosocial and Environmental Problems D. Neurological Functioning