AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Personality disorders: Inflexible, maladaptive patterns of thought, emotions, behavior, and interpersonal functioning that are stable over time and across situations and that deviate from the expectations of the individual’s culture (page 350).

Detailed explanation-2: -Maladaptive habits are behavioral patterns of inflexible behavior that reflect poor self-control and occur despite their harmful consequences. Those behaviors lead to undesirable outcomes in a broad range of a person’s life domains.

Detailed explanation-3: -Maladaptive behavior is behavior that prevents you from making adjustments that are in your own best interest. Avoidance, withdrawal, and passive aggression are examples of maladaptive behaviors.

Detailed explanation-4: -Personality Disorders-psychological disorders characterized by inflexible and enduring behavior patterns that impair social functioning.

Detailed explanation-5: -A personality disorder is a mental health condition that involves long-lasting, all-encompassing, disruptive patterns of thinking, behavior, mood and relating to others. These patterns cause a person significant distress and/or impair their ability to function.