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AP Psychology
Ms. Giola
Name: ________________________
Date: ________________________
Abnormal Psychology Unit Guide (Unit 11)
Important Dates
Vocab Quiz: 3/21
Unit Test: 3/28
Readings
David, Meyers. Psychology. Hope College: Holland, Michigan. 2007. pg 639-683 (chapter 16)
David, Meyers. Psychology. Hope College: Holland, Michigan. 2007. pg 684-721 (chapter 17)
Key Terms
You only need definitions for the under lined words
“Simple” phobias
Active listening
Agoraphobia
Antianxiety drugs
Antidepressant Drugs
Antipsychotic drugs
Antisocial personality
disorder
Anxiety disorders
Attention-deficit
hyperactivity disorfer
Aversive conditioning
Behavior therapy
Biological model
Biomedical therapy
Biopsychosocial model
Bipolar disorder
Catatonic Schizophrenia
Client-centered therapy
Cognitive model
Cognitive therapy
Cognitive-behavior therapy
Conversion Disorders
Counterconditioning
Deinstitutionalization
Delusions
Disorganized Schizophrenia
Dissociative Amnesia
Dissociative disorders
Dissociative fugue
Key People
Philippe Pinel
Sigmund Frued
Carl Rogers
B.F. Skinner
Joseph Wolpe
Mary Cover Jones
Aaron Beck
Albert Ellis
Dissociative identity disorder
(DID)
DSM-IV
Eclectic approach
Electroconvulsive therapy
(ECT)
Exposure therapies
Family therapy
Flooding
Generalized anxiety disorders
Group Therapy
Hallucinations
Humanistic model
Hypochondriasis
Insanity
Interpretation
Lobotomy
Major depressive disorder
Mania
Medical model
Meta-analysis
Mood disorders
Obsessive-compulsive
disorder (OCD)
Panic disorder
Paranoid Schizophrenia
Personality disorders
Phobia
Post-traumatic stress
disorder (PTSD)
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytical model
Psychological Disorder
Psychopharmacology
Psychosurgery
Psychotherapy
Rational Emotional Therapy
(RET)
Regression toward the mean
Repetitive transcranial
magnetic stimulation (rTMS)
Resistance
Schizophrenia
Seasonal Affective Disorder
(SAD)
Social phobias
Sociocultural model
Somatoform Disorders
Systematic desensitization
Tardive Dyskinesia
The Rosenhan Study: The
Influence of Labels
Token economy
Transference
Unconditional positive regard
Undifferentiated
Schizophrenia
Virtual Reality Exposure
Therapy
AP Psychology
Ms. Giola
Name: ________________________
Date: ________________________
Questions to Consider
See textbook for objectives!
1. Describe contemporary and historical conceptions of what constitutes psychological disorders.
2. Recognize the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manula of Mental Disorders (DSM)
published by the American Psychiatric Associaiton as the primary reference for making diagnostic
judgments.
3. Evaluate the strengths and limitations of vvarious approaches to explaining psychological
disorders: medical model, psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive, biological, and sociocultural.
4. Identify the positive and negative consequences of diagnostic labels (e.g. the Rosenhan study).
5. Discuss the intersection between psychology and the legal system (e.g. confidentiality, insanity
defense).
6. Discuss the major diagnostic categories and their symptoms
a. Anxiety disorders
b. Somatoform disorders
c. Mood disorders
d. Schizophrenia
e. Organic disturbance
f. Personality disorders
g. Dissociative disorders
7. Describe the central characteristics of psychotherapeutic intervention.
8. Describe major treatment orientations used in therapy (e.g. behavioral, cognitive, and
humanistic) and how those orientations influence therapeutic planning.
9. Summarize effectiveness of specific treatments used to address specific problems.
10. Identify major figures in psychological treatments (e.g. Sigmund Freud, Carl Rogers, B.F.
Skinner, Joseph Wolpe, Mary Cover Jones).