Testing

1.   The category of "odd" personality disorders includes the traits of:

  | anxiety and fearfulness. |

  | being highly dramatic, emotional, or erratic. |

  | inflexibility and total loss of contact with reality. |

1  | extreme suspiciousness, social withdrawal, and cognitive and perceptual peculiarities. |

2.   The type of therapy that generally provides the least help for those with schizoid personality disorder is:

  | behavioral. |

 1 | drug. |

  | cognitive. |

  | None of the other alternatives provide help for those with schizoid personality disorder. |

3.   By the DSM-IV-TR classification system, personality disorders are disorders on which axis?

  | Axis I |

1  | Axis II |

  | Axis III |

  | Axis IV |

4.   Assume a study of prison inmates diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder shows that they generally experience less anxiety than other people when they lie or "con" others. This outcome would most strongly support which theoretical position?

  | behavioral |

  | psychodynamic |

  | cognitive |

 1 | biological |

5.  What is a common reason for the hospitalization of people with borderline personality disorder?

1  | They may attempt suicide or otherwise hurt themselves. |

  | They finally cannot care for themselves. |

  | They voluntarily ask for hospitalization, out of desperation. |

  | They are so afraid of leaving their homes that they suffer social paralysis. |

6.  Which of the following have sociocultural theorists suggested as a cause for the emergence of borderline personality disorder?

1  | rapid social change |

  | traditional family structures |

  | clinging and dependent parents |

  | nontraditional family structures |

7.   The "flower children" of the 1960s and 1970s have sometimes been called the "me" generation, reflecting the supposed self-centered individualism of the time. If this is true, a sociocultural theorist would predict a larger than usual percentage of which...