HPS307 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Agreeableness, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Cognitive Therapy
Summary:
- Situation happens/events occur
- Personality system affects the way the person experiences & understand events
- The situation activates associated CAUs
- The active aspects of the system guide our thoughts feelings and behaviour
- Interact: our reaction affects situation which affects our experience
- Nodes can become activated by either internal cues or external cues
- External cues that activate nodes are called active ingredients
11- Integrated Approach
- Focus on pragmatic integration
- Draw pragmatically to treat something that is seen as quite complicated
- Topic 1: Introduction on conceptual issues and research methods
- Topic 2-9: Major approaches to understand personality
- Topic 10-11: Tie approaches together
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Definition of Personality Disorder
- Personality: consistent patterns in thoughts, feelings and behaviour
- Personality disorder: consistent patterns in thoughts feelings and behaviour that meet
the following 2 conditions
- 1. Patterns differ substantially from those considered ‘normal’ within a culture
- 2. They cause significant distress to the person and/or those around them
- Functional inflexibility: engage in maladaptive behaviour, associated with significant
distress, don’t adapt the behaviour it persists
- Self-defeating patterns of behaviour: criticizing yourself the whole time, doubting yourself
the whole time
- Unstable functioning in the case of stress: freaking out when stressed, abandonment cues,
could be an overreaction that can lead to increased stress, could lose it over a little thing.
Case Studies
Borderline personality disorder
- Characterised by more intense reactions to stress, harder to calm down once stressed
- Chronic feelings of emptiness, unstable relationships
- Without physical contact, will go downhill, easier to be unhappy
- Unstable self image, difficulty distinguishing between public and personal face
- Cannot be productive, confused with who you are and who you think you are
Avoidant personality disorder
- Introverted, depressive symptoms, afraid of saying something inappropriate
- Mind goes blank, cant think, preoccupied with thoughts of being criticized in social
situations - Mind yelling how stupid can you be, totally withdrawn, cannot social fell so inadequate
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Models of Personality Disorders
Trait (Factor) Approaches
- Conceptualise personality disorders as arising form an extreme combination of traits
- A person has extreme combination/levels of trait, don’t have unique traits
- Research has found all of the big 5 except for openness are associated with personality
disorders
Document Summary
Personality system affects the way the person experiences & understand events. The active aspects of the system guide our thoughts feelings and behaviour. Interact: our reaction affects situation which affects our experience. Nodes can become activated by either internal cues or external cues. External cues that activate nodes are called active ingredients. Draw pragmatically to treat something that is seen as quite complicated. Topic 1: introduction on conceptual issues and research methods. Definition of personality disorder: they cause significant distress to the person and/or those around them. Personality: consistent patterns in thoughts, feelings and behaviour. Personality disorder: consistent patterns in thoughts feelings and behaviour that meet the following 2 conditions: patterns differ substantially from those considered (cid:494)normal(cid:495) within a culture distress, don(cid:495)t adapt the behaviour it persists. Self-defeating patterns of behaviour: criticizing yourself the whole time, doubting yourself the whole time.
