Personality Disorders

False perceptions that are common symptoms of schizophrenia are called:

• delusions
• dissociations
• hallucinations
• panic attacks

A delusion is a(n):

• disorganized use of words (“word salad”).
• false belief.
• false perception.
• inappropriate emotion

Which disorder is a group of severe disorders characterized by disorganized and delusional thinking, disturbed perceptions, and inappropriate emotions and actions?

• Depression
• Dependent Personality Disorder
• PTSD
• Schizophrenia

Jamille is constantly getting in fights at school, she even gets kicked out of college because of it. One day while at Target, she decided she didn't want to pay for her frozen pizza, so she stuffed it in her jacket and stole it. When approached by the security guard, she maced him. She did not feel remorse.

• borderline

• narcissistic

• histrionic

• antisocial

When entering a party, Tashara believes that she is the most popular person there for no reason...in fact she thinks because she's the most popular person there, that she should leave, because everyone in attendance is actually a loser. She then asks someone to take her home. Nobody does.

• antisocial

• borderline

• narcissistic

• avoidant

A person who seems to have two or more distinct personalities may be suffering from

• DID

• Dissociative amnesia

• Dissociative fugue

• Depersonalization disorder

The most widely used manual for the classification of psychological disorders in the U.S. is…

• Diagnostic and Statisical Manual of Mental Disorders
• International Classification of Diseases
• Minnesota Multi-phasic Personality Inventory
• Catalogue of Psychiatric Disorders

Serial killers tend to suffer from which of the following disorders?

• Paranoid personality disorder
• Schizoid personality disorder
• Antisocial personality disorder
• Avoidant personality disorder

If I have a headache and run around telling everyone I have the plague, then I am demonstrating symptoms of what?

• Conversion Disorder

• Hypochondrias

• Generalized Anxiety

• Schizophrenia

Which disorder is characterized by an inability to establish meaningful relationships, assuming social responsibilities and treating people as objects?

• Major Depressive Disorder

• SAD

• Antisocial Personality Disorder

• Avoidant Personality Disorder