PSYC 353 Lecture Notes - Big Five Personality Traits, Mood Disorder, Cluster B Personality Disorders

• School: University of Maryland
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 353
• Professor: Richard Yi

Document Summary

Personality- typical ways of acting, thinking, believing and feeling. Personality traits are complex pattern of behavior, thought and feeling. Problems in two or more areas: cognitions, affectivity, interpersonal functioning, impulse control (first cluster) Paranoid- interprets others actions as demeaning or threatening. Results in: expectation of being harmed, pathological jealousy, hypervigilance, restricted affect, no sense of humor. Associated features: unlikely to come in for treatment b/c suspicious of it, . 7- 5. 1% of population, more common in men comorbidity (can be outside of cluster), genetic etiology (prevalence in families that have disorder) . 8- 1. 7% of population, slightly more in men. Not likely to come in for treatment. Looks like prodromal (isolate themselves before schizo) and residual phases of schizophrenia. Peculiarities of cognition (paranoia, suspicious, ideas of reference, illusions, odd beliefs like. Vague speech, odd expressions, distracted/ fixated, may appear unkempt. 6- 1. 1% of population, slightly more common in men. Stable course, small group go on to develop schizo or other psychotic disorders.