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Learning Objective 15
Abnormal Behavior
Chapter 15 Psychological Disorders
(AP Psychology Scoring Criteria 14)
Lesson One: Pages 604-609
Perspectives on Psychological Disorders
April 3
Vocabulary:
Psychological disorder, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), medical model,
Reading Questions:
15-1: How should we draw the line between normality and disorder?
15-2: Why is there controversy over attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder?
15-3: How do the medical model and the biopsychosocial approach understand psychological
disorders?
Lesson Two: Pages 610-613
Classifying and Labeling Disorders
April 4
Vocabulary:
DSM-5
Reading Questions:
15-4: How and why do clinicians classify psychological disorders?
15-5: Why do some psychologists criticize the use of diagnostic labels?
Lesson Three: Pages 614-620 Anxiety, OCD, and PTSD
April 6
Vocabulary:
Anxiety disorders, generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, phobia, obsessive-compulsive
disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), posttraumatic growth
Reading Questions:
15-6: What are the different anxiety disorders?
15-7: What is OCD?
15-8: What is PTSD?
15-9: How do the learning and biological perspectives explain anxiety disorders, OCD, and PTSD?
Lesson Four: Pages 621-625
Mood Disorders
April 7
Vocabulary:
Mood disorders, major depressive disorder, mania, bipolar disorder
Reading Questions:
15-10: What are mood disorders? How does major depressive disorder differ from bipolar disorder?
Lesson Five: Pages 625-631 Perspectives on Mood Disorders
April 10
Chapter 15 Reading Quiz 1 
Reading Questions:
15-11: How do the biological and social-cognitive perspectives explain mood disorders?
15-12: What factors affect suicide and self-injuring, and what are some of the important warning
signs to watch for in suicide prevention efforts?
Lesson Six: Pages 631-638
Schizophrenia
April 11
Vocabulary:
Schizophrenia, psychosis, delusions,
Reading Questions:
15-13: What patterns of thinking, perceiving, and feeling characterize schizophrenia?
(Lesson Six continued)
15-14: How do chronic and acute schizophrenia differ?
15-15: How do brain abnormalities and viral infections help explain schizophrenia?
15-16: Are there genetic influences on schizophrenia? What factors may be early warning signs of
schizophrenia in children?
Lesson Seven: Pages 638-642
Dissociative and Eating Disorders
April 12
Vocabulary:
Dissociative disorders, dissociative identity disorder (DID), Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa,
binge-eating disorder
Reading Questions:
15-17: What are dissociative disorders, and why are they controversial?
15-18: How do anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder demonstrate the
influence of psychological forces?
Lesson Eight: Pages 642-647
Personality Disorders
April 13
Vocabulary:
Personality disorders, antisocial personality disorder
Reading Questions:
15-19: What are the three clusters of personality disorders? What behaviors and brain activity
characterize the antisocial personality?
15-20: How many people suffer, or have suffered, from a psychological disorder? Is poverty a risk
factor?
CH. 15
Learning Objective 15 Assessments
Notebook Check (Apr. 17) Chapter 15 Reading Quiz 2
Chapter 15 Exam (April 18)
What should I know from Chapter 15?
a. Describe contemporary and historical conceptions of what constitutes psychological
disorders.
b. Recognize the use of the most recent version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of
Mental Disorders (DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Association as the primary
reference for making diagnostic judgments.
c. Discuss the major diagnostic categories, including anxiety disorders, bipolar and related
disorders, depressive disorders, dissociative disorders, feeding and eating disorders,
neurodevelopmental disorders, neurocognitive disorders, obsessive-compulsive and related
disorders, personality disorders, schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders,
somatic symptom and related disorders, and trauma-and stressor-related disorders and their
corresponding symptoms.
d. Evaluate the strengths and limitations of various approaches to explaining psychological
disorders: medical model, psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive, biological, and
sociocultural.
e. Identify the positive and negative consequences of diagnostic labels (e.g., the Rosenhan
study).
f. Discuss the intersection between psychology and the legal system (e.g., confidentiality,
insanity defense).
(CollegeBoard, 2014)