PSY 2201 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Cognitive Therapy, Family Therapy, Autism Spectrum
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Personality: enduring patterns of thinking and behavior: general disorder definition: problems with personality plus one of of 10 specific categories, typically aren"t diagnosed into a category until 18 y/o. Categorical vs. dimensional model: problem with categorizing disorders, can meet criteria for multiple disorders, and can stop meeting criteria in general, dimensional model was attempted, but disorders are still treated and diagnosed categorically. Defining characteristics: persistent, maladaptive patterns of experience and behavior that are inconsistent with cultural expectations. Iv: personalities are rigid, inflexible, and pervasive across settings and over time, regardless of who the interaction is with, personalities aren"t multifaceted, ego-syntonic: causes distress to others, but not to oneself. It"s everyone else"s fault, never my own : personality development, continues into and throughout adulthood, basic approach to the world through temperament, world experiences help to shape temperament, will/can be modified based on context or circumstances.
