General Features of Personality Disorder Include All of the Following

question 37

Multiple Choice

General features of personality disorder include all of the following EXCEPT

• A)an enduring pattern of experience and behavior that deviates markedly from the expectations of the individual's culture.
• B)a pattern of thinking, behaving, and feeling that is flexible and occurs only in specific situations.
• C)an enduring pattern of thought, emotion, and behavior that leads to clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
• D)a pattern of behavior that is stable over time, and whose onset can be traced back to at least adolescence or early adulthood.

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Definitions:

Self-Efficacy

An individual's belief in their own capacity to execute behaviors necessary to produce specific performance attainments.

Lay Judgments

Decisions or opinions formed by non-experts based on common sense or personal experiences.

Good Target

An object or goal that is deemed particularly worthwhile, desirable, or suitable for pursuit or attention.

Social Expectancies

Presumptions or anticipations about the behaviors that are deemed acceptable or normal within a social context or group.