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PSY 657 FINAL EXAM STUDY SETPersonality (no definition) - ANSWER the set of unique traits and behaviors that
characterize the individual.
Personality Disorder (be able to identify a trait) - ANSWER people that have traits
that are inflexible and maladaptive that they are unable to function effectively or
meet the demands of their culture.
Summary of Personality Disorders - ANSWER Summary of Personality Disorders.
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Cluster A - ANSWER people seem odd or eccentric, with unusual behavior ranging
from distrust and suspiciousness to social detachment. Paranoid Personality
Disorder - suspicious, blames others
Schizoid Personality Disorder - lacks interest in forming social relationships with
others
Schizotypal Personality Disorder - oddities in thinking, talking and other behaviors
Cluster B - ANSWER Paranoid Personality Disorder - suspicious, blames others
Histrionic Personality Disorder - excessive emotionality, overconcern with physical
attractiveness, self-dramatization
Narcissistic Personality Disorder - exaggerated sense of self-importance
Antisocial Personality Disorder - violates the rights of others
Psychopathy/Sociopathy
Borderline Personality Disorder - impulsivity and instability
Cluster C - ANSWER these personality disorders show anxiety and fear.
Avoidant Personality Disorder - introversion and extreme social inhibition
Dependent Personality Disorder - discomfort at the possibility of separation or
being alone
,Obsessive-compulsive Personality Disorder- a pervasive pattern of preoccupation
with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control, at the
expense of flexibility
Know ALL PDs MUST be impairing - ANSWER Social, Academic &
Occupational functioning
Fetishism - ANSWER sexual pleasure from inanimate objects
Transvestic Fetishism - ANSWER sexual pleasure to cross-dress, if they experience
impairment or distress
Voyeurism - ANSWER recurrent, intensive sexually arousing fantasies, urges, or
behaviors involving the observation of unsuspecting people who are undressing or
couples engaging in sexual activity.
Exhibitionistic Disorder (Exhibitionism) - ANSWER showing genitals to someone
in inappropriate circumstances and without their consent.
Sadism - ANSWER the tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual gratification,
from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others.
Masochism - ANSWER a person experiences pleasure from being dominated and
made to experience pain.
Pedophilic - ANSWER pleasure in having sexual relations with a prepubertal child
13 and younger.
Apotemnophilia - ANSWER an overwhelming or obsessive desire to have one or
more healthy body parts especially a limb removed by amputation ... the
characteristic findings of this fascinating disease clearly distinguish apotemnophilia
as a unique paraphilia.
Is transexualism a paraphilia? - ANSWER
Gender Dysmorphia - ANSWER characterized by persistent distress resulting from
a perceived mismatch between one's assigned gender at birth and their gender
identity. Can be diagnosed at childhood or adulthood.
Gender Identity Disorder - ANSWER are defined as disorders in which an
individual exhibits marked and persistent identification with the opposite sex and
, persistent discomfort (dysphoria) with his or her own sex or sense of
inappropriateness in the gender role of that sex.
Transsexualism - ANSWER as "[a] desire to live and be accepted as a member of
the opposite sex, usually accompanied by a sense of discomfort with, or
inappropriateness of, one's anatomic sex, and a wish to have surgery and hormonal
treatment to make one's body as congruent as possible with one's preferred sex."
Sexual Dysfunction - ANSWER refers to the impairment either in the desire for
sexual gratification or in the ability to achieve it.
female sexual interest/arousal disorder - ANSWER low sexual interest and sexual
arousal. Usually, psychological factors are more of an issue than biological issue
Male Erectile Disorder - ANSWER what was formerly known as impotence, refers
to an inability to obtain or maintain an erection sufficient for sexual intercourse.
Premature ejaculation - ANSWER refers to the persistent and recurrent onset of
orgasm and ejaculation with minimal sexual stimulation. (Most prevalent)
Female orgasmic disorder - ANSWER who are readily sexual exciteable and who
otherwise enjoy sexual activity but show persistent or recurrent delay in or absence
of orgasm following a normal sexual arousal phase and who are distressed by this.
Desire - ANSWER consists of fantasies about sexual activity or a sense of desire to
have sexual activity.
Arousal/excitement phase - ANSWER characterized both by a subjective sense of
sexual pleasure and by physiological changes that accompany this subjective
pleasure, including penile erection in the male and vaginal lubrication and clitoral
enlargement in the female
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