PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Pseudobulbar Affect, Psychoticism, Oral Stage
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Personality set of uniquely expressed characteristics that influence our behaviours, emotions, thoughts + interactions. Personality traits particular characteristics that lead us to react in fairly predictable ways. Personalities flexible, learn, interact etc, those without flexibility have personality disorder. Personality disorder: an enduring, rigid pattern of inner experience + outward behaviour that repeatedly impairs a person"s sense of self, emotional experiences, goals, capacity for empathy, and/or capacity for intimacy. Last for years + typically become recognizable in adolescence or early adulthood, some start during childhood. Dsm-5 identifies 10 personality disorders in 3 groups: odd/eccentric behaviour, paranoid, schizoid, schizotypal, dramatic behaviour, antisocial, borderline, histrionic, narcissistic, high degree of anxiety, avoidant, dependent, obsessive-compulsive. Uses categorical approach, assumes that: problematic personality traits are either present or absent, personality disorder is either displayed or not displayed, person who suffers from personality disorder not markedly troubled by personality traits outside of that disorder. Too much overlap, difficult to distinguish disorders from one another.
