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PSYC B1A
L. Larkin
STUDY GUIDE
Exam – Chapters 13 - 15
Be sure to read chapters 13 through 15 of your text carefully.
Respond with as much information as possible to each of the following
questions to use this study guide as a more comprehensive study tool.
Remember, if you write your responses in an outline format, your
brains will retain and recall the information more readily for your
exam.
Chapter 12
 What criteria do psychologists use to define a pattern of
behavior as disordered?
 Discuss the biopsychosocial approach to psychological disorders.
 What is the DSM-IV-TR? How is it used in the psychological
field?
 What is the problem with diagnostic labeling?
 List the major categories of psychological disorder discussed in
your text, and the examples and symptoms that are given for
each.
 What is the difference between an obsession and a compulsion?
 What is a psychoactive drug? Give an example.
 Distinguish between withdrawal, tolerance, and dependence.
 Discuss the neurotransmitters that might be affected in each of
the major categories of psychological disorder discussed in your
text.
Chapter 13
 List and describe the mental health therapies that are available
for the treatment of psychological disorders.
 Discuss the common treatment techniques used in each of the
mental health therapies.
 What are some of the benefits of group therapy over individual
therapy?
 Distinguish the benefit of using certain treatments over others
in treating certain psychological disorders.
 What is ECT and how is it used?
 What is involved in psychosurgery?
Chapter 14
 What is social psychology?
 Define and discuss the following terms: social facilitation; social
loafing; fundamental attribution error; bystander effect;
deindividuation; cognitive dissonance; group polarization;
prejudice; discrimination; stereotyping; self-disclosure.
 What is a situational constraint?
 What is an attitude and how do they guide behavior?
 What is the foot-in-the-door phenomenon? Door-in-the-face
phenomenon?
 Discuss the Zimbardo prison experiment and what the research
illustrated.
 Discuss the outcome and what was learned from Milgram’s study
of obedience.
 How does the presence of others influence our performance?
 What conclusion has been made regarding how to avoid teaching
children aggression?
 What is the mere exposure effect?
 What is the difference between companionate and passionate
love?