Exam Preview for 2505: Personality Pathways to Substance Abuse: Und

Personality Pathways to Substance Abuse: Understanding Traits, Risks, and Treatment

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1. Which of the following appears under the Impaired Control cluster of DSM-5-TR Substance-Use-Disorder criteria? Recurrent use in physically hazardous situations Spending a great deal of time obtaining or using the substance Continued use despite social problems Tolerance development
2. The lexical approach to discovering personality traits assumes that: Only laboratory measures reveal core traits. Important personality qualities become encoded in everyday language. Traits must show strong heritability to be valid. Personality can be reduced to two biological factors.
3. The Essential-Trait approach seeks a trait set that is both succinct and ___________. Culturally specific Orthogonal and comprehensively predictive Quickly changeable through therapy Focused on emotional states
4. Within the Big Five, Openness to Experience has also been referred to as: Discipline Dominance Intellect or Culture Sociability
5. Introverts typically prefer _________ levels of environmental stimulation compared with extraverts. Higher Lower Unpredictable Identical
6. According to the stimulus-intensity chart, extraverts are most comfortable in situations such as: Sitting quietly in an empty room Loud music during conversation Solitary reading in a library Light background noise at home
7. The presentation links high Extraversion to earlier alcohol initiation primarily through: Fear-based decision making Greater positive alcohol expectancies Impaired executive functioning Increased punishment sensitivity
8. Twin-pair analyses showed that Extraversion is uniquely associated with the use of which substance class after accounting for shared genetics? Opioids Cannabis Benzodiazepines Stimulants and cocaine
9. Which strategy is highlighted as especially effective for keeping highly extraverted clients engaged in treatment? Solitary mindfulness retreats High-dose sedative pharmacotherapy Group CBT and peer-led recovery meetings Extended journaling assignments
10. ARAS theory proposes that extraverts have lower baseline cortical arousal and therefore seek _________ external stimulation. Equivalent Less More Variable