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1		The maladaptive, inflexible patterns of behavior and inner experience characteristic of a personality disorder must be evident in at least two of following areas: cognition, affectivity, interpersonal functioning, and


2		Robert Hare's Psychopathy Checklist (PCL-R) has two factors, psychopathic traits and lifestyle.


3		The tendency for people with borderline personality disorder to alternately adore and hate others -- to see them as all good or all bad -- is often referred to as


4		Clinicians who work with borderline individuals refer to attention-getting self-injurious behavior as


5		In one biologically based theory of the origins of borderline personality disorder, early childhood sexual abuse is believed to result in an over-responsive , which combines with trait impulsivity to create borderline symptoms.


6		People with personality disorder avoid social and sexual relationships because they prefer to be solitary; people with personality disorder avoid social and sexual relationships because they fear rejection and ridicule.


7		Individuals with personality disorder have odd or magical beliefs about the world and are very eccentric in their behavior.


8		Theatricality and sexual seductiveness are central features of - personality disorder.


9		All of the following have been put forward as potential causes of the gender disparity in the observed prevalence of personality disorder: gender bias on the part of diagnosticians, the higher rates of sexual abuse of girls than of boys, and gender differences in reactions to endorphins.


10		Hoarding behaviors and miserly spending habits are associated with - personality disorder.

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