Which of the following personality disorders describes a person who has an exaggerated sense of self-importance and who needs constant admiration?

Related Mcqs:

1. Which of the following personality disorders describes a person who has an extremely unable self-image, is moody, and does not develop stable relationships?

   A. borderline
   B. histrionic
   C. narcissistic
   D. schizoid

2. When sadness and despondency are exaggerated or prolonged and an extremely negative self-image prevails, we would suspect a (n):

   A. dissociative reaction
   B. mood disorder
   C. somatoform disorder
   D. anxiety disorder

3. Jamil has a lack of interest in friends or lovers and experiences very little emotion. He can be described as having which of the following personality disorders?

   A. avoidant
   B. schizoid
   C. borderline
   D. paranoid

4. Personality theorists believe there may be______factors or very board dimensions that make up a person’s personality.

   A. 3
   B. 10
   C. 7
   D. 5

5. Mood disorders are those in which the personality may:

   A. experience serve depression and threaten suicide
   B. exhibit symptoms suggesting physical disease or injury but for which there is no identifiable cause
   C. exhibit behavior that is the result of an organic brain pathology
   D. experience delusions and hallucinations

6. The opponent-process theory is to our sense of color as the gate-control theory is to our sense of ____________?

   A. smell
   B. touch
   C. kinesthesia
   D. pain

7. In what way (s) is the sense of taste like the sense of smell?

   A. There are four primary stimulus groups for both senses
   B. both systems are routed through the thalamus on the way to the cortex
   C. The physical stimuli for both senses are chemical substances dissolved in fluid
   D. All of the above

8. In most anxiety disorders, the person’s distress is:

   A. focused on a specific situation
   B. related to ordinary life stresses
   C. greatly out of proportion to the situation
   D. based on a physical cause

9. Which of the following is not a shortcoming of self-report personality inventories?

   A. The accuracy of the results is a function of the honesty of the respondent
   B. Respondents may attempt to answer in a way that makes them look good
   C. There is sometimes a problem with “yea-sayers” or “nay-sayers.”
   D. They are objective measures that are easy to administer and score

10. ______are the thesis that “lower” needs must be satisfied before one can move to “higher” needs.

    A. Maslow’s views
    B. Livson,s N.views
    C. Knopf’s views
    D. None of these