The Following Personality Disorders Are Found in Cluster C, and They

question 32

Multiple Choice

The following personality disorders are found in Cluster C, and they are characterized by anxious and fearful behaviors.

• A)Dependent and obsessive compulsive
• B)Histrionic and narcissistic
• C)Antisocial and borderline
• D)Paranoid and schizoid

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Definitions:

Repression

An unconscious mechanism employed by the ego to keep disturbing or threatening thoughts from becoming conscious.

Sigmund Freud

A neurologist from Austria who initiated the method of psychoanalysis, which is a therapeutic technique used to address mental disorders through conversational interactions between a psychoanalyst and their patient.

Serial-Position Effect

A phenomenon in memory that suggests that when learning a list, people tend to remember the first and last items better than those in the middle.

Alphabet

A set of letters or symbols in a fixed order used to represent the basic sounds of a language, particularly for writing.