PSYC 3140 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16-17: Operant Conditioning, Developmental Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder
28 Mar 2017
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Personality: inner and long-term pattern of inner experience and outward behaviour. Personality is flexible, allowing us to learn and adapt to new environments. Personality disorder: enduring, rigid pattern of inner experience and outward behaviour that repeatedly impairs a person"s sense of self, emotional experiences, goals, capacity for empathy and capacity for intimacy. Various personality disorders overlap and makes it difficult to distinguish one from another. Odd personality disorders: people with these orders have odd/eccentric behaviours such as suspiciousness, social withdrawal and peculiar was of thinking. People with odd cluster personality disorder qualify for additional diagnosis of schizophrenia. Paranoid personality disorder: marked by a pattern of distrust and suspiciousness of others because they believe that everyone intends to harm them. Psychodynamic theories: trace the pattern to mistreatment during childhood and lack of love. Cognitive theories: believes maladaptive assumptions e. g. people are evil, are to blame. Biological theories: believes it has genetic causes; drug therapy has limited help.
