Chat 2 Exam 3 part 2

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Understanding Personality and Mental Health

Explore the intricacies of personality traits, mental health disorders, and their impact on our lives through this comprehensive quiz. Whether you are a student or simply interested in psychology, this quiz will help deepen your understanding of complex psychological concepts.

Test your knowledge on personality theories.
Learn about mental health conditions and their characteristics.
Enhance your awareness of psychological terms and their implications.

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What kinds things might a parent to help instill this in his child?

Nonjudgemental appreciation

Judgmental appreciation

The Big Five theory identifies 5 main characteristics that account for what?

Personality

For most individual differences in personality

What are the limits of the general trait approach?

They are clustered together

Situations could exert a stronger influence on people

There are two dimensions or temperament which appear by many professionals to be quite important for a healthy adult personalty to develop. What are those two dimensions?

Parents wishing to promote egotism would encourage their children and accept their personalities.

Reactivity and self-regulation

Why are personality tests, as well as other psychological tests, standardized?

To avoid the pitfall of observation or non scientific studies

Good tests require validity and reliability

How do most people respond when they talk about themselves, look at themselves in a mirror, watch a video of themselves, or “stand out from the crowd” in some way?

Negative

They have a heightened awareness of themselves

Perhaps a more expanded answer would be with heightened self-awareness and an unpleasant feeling but negatively would be a great answer.

A meta-analysis by Kling, Hyde and Showers suggested what? 5:36 PMAs it relates to self-esteem. 5:36 PMThink about differences between males and females.

Female might have lower self esteem than males

Because of higher rates of depression

It is a small difference

Self-esteem works with a cultural worldview to do what?Based on terror management theory

To drive you and make you feel accomplished

Buffers our fear of death

If someone grows up in a collectivistic culture, what is their main focus with regard to interacting in society?

They value being "part of the team"

They like individualism

Do they strive to be the center of attention or the person in charge?

They might avoid standing out from the group by giving themselves highly positive ratings

Might avoid standing out from the group by giving themselves highly positive ratings.

Which part of the brain shows excess activity during delusions of control in a person with schizophrenia?

Right hemisphere

Left hemisphere

What kind of person feels comfortable to provide constructive criticism within a group?In order to provide constructive criticism in a "group" setting, how do you need to feel about yourself in order to feel safe to do that? Stand up to a group?

Neurotism.

Someone with a high self esteem(most correct)

Self- confidence. Stable personality.

Why is it important to develop a diagnosis of an individual?

Because symptoms can vary widely, and show up in "normal" behavior as well as abnormal behavior

Because you can't treat something if you don't know what it is

There are no blood tests or scans or other diagnostic procedures used to determine a diagnosis

Are college students more, less, or about he same with respect to non-college students with respect to the rates of psych disorders?

Yes

About the same

Why has there been an increase in the number of children diagnosed with autism compared to years ago?

An awareness makes it easier to diagnose

Improved awareness of diagnostic criteria

Rise in cases, an imporved awareness of diagnostic criteria or a combination of both

An increase in the awareness makes folks more aware of the disorder.

What then is the difference between a hallucination and a delusion?

Hallucinations are perceptions of what is happening

A delusion is an unrealistic belief, a hallucination is a false perception, most hallucinations are auditory

Hallucinations are when you see or hear something that is not actually there, delusions are false thoughts

Delusion- false belief. Hallucination-false perception

What is generalized anxiety disorder? (GAD)Choose the most correct

A general fear of what might happen with no specific phobia

An exaggeration of what is normally a useful response

Excessive anxiety or worry for 6 months+ that isn't situational

Having anxiety when there is no stimulus or very little stimulus

A dissociative disorder is characterized by disruptions in a person's what?

Identity, memory, or consciousness

Just identity

What are some characteristics of PTSD?

Flashbacks, hypervigilance

Intrusive thoughts

Caused by experience of trauma, leads to flashbacks, dreams, hyper-vigilance

Flashbacks, dreams, avoiding situations that trigger memories

Avoidance of stimuli associated with the trauma

What is a compulsion and give me some examples?

Repetitive behavior, washing hands 20 times before leaving the bathroom ritualistic

Lining up objects

Repetitive behavior associated with high anxiety. Checking for locked windows or faucets off

What about a continued image of yourself hitting your professor?

Would be an obsession

Inappropriate imagery

A compulsion involves a repetitive action.

What is agoraphobia?

Fear of open spaces

Fear of public transportation

Fear of having a panic attack in public so you just stay home

Leaving home

What is a Somatic Symptom Disorder?

Physical symptoms with no underlying cause... pain, sickness

Having multiple symptoms but no cause

Disorder characterized by physical symptoms with no underlying medical cause.

What are personality disorders characterized by?

Impairments in identity, personality traits, and in establishing empathy or intimacy

Depression

Ell me some of the symptoms of an Antisocial Persoanlity Disorder

Lack of empathy

Disregard for the rights of others

Little regard for normal social rules, risky and irresponsible behavior

Patterns of disregard for people , violent at times

Rules don't apply to them

Give me some of the symptoms of that disorder.

Instability with emotions, self image, and relationships

Impulsive, self-destructive behavior

Suicide or self mutilation are symptoms

What is one of the most controversial of the disorders discussed in your book? Think dissoicative disorder

Bordeline personality disorder.

Dissociative identity disorder

What is a dissociative fugue?

People become confused over their identity 5:42 PMcombine this loss of identity with sudden travel and the assumption of a new identity

Increased awareness

Chat 2 Exam 3 part 2

Understanding Personality and Mental Health

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