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AP Psychology
Psyc disorders review sheet
Main ideas and terms to know:
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understand the debate surrounding diagnostic labeling
medical model
criticisms of the medical model
biopsychosocial approach
criticisms of the biopsychosocial approach
What is the DSM-IV?
How is the DSM-IV used by psychologists?
Why the DSM-IV only bases diagnoses on observable patterns of behavior?
self-fulfilling prophecies
What is the difference between neurotic disorders and psychotic disorders?
The negative effects of diagnostic labels
The relationship between psychological disorders and violence
What would most mental health workers believe the influences are that lead to
disordered behavior?
What is the M’Naughton Rule?
What is insanity?
criteria for determining disordered behavior:
a) atypical
b) disturbing
c) maladaptive
d) unjustifiable
Understand the characteristics of all of the major psychological disorders (know their
symptoms & other diagnostic features):
Anxiety Disorders:
 phobias
 specific phobia
 biological reasons for phobia
 learning theory concerning phobias
 social phobia
 agoraphobia
 obsessive-compulsive disorder (ocd)
 The theory that compulsions reduce anxiety
 Learning theory & OCD
 manifestation of neurosis
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Post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd):
a.) acute
b.) chronic
c.) with delayed onset
Generalized anxiety disorder
”free-floating anxiety”
panic attacks
Schizophrenia:
 it is a psychotic disorder
 it is not multiple personality disorder
 genetics and schizophrenia
 birth month and hemisphere as it relates to schizophrenia
 prenatal viral infections & schizophrenia
 low birth weight & schizophrenia
 brain imaging and schizophrenia
 delusions
 hallucinations
 disorganized speech
 “word salad”
 disorganized behavior
 catatonic behavior
 positive symptoms
 negative symptoms
 delusions of grandeur
 persecutorial delusions
 schizophrenia subtypes:
a.) paranoid
b.) disorganized
c.) catatonic
d.) undifferentiated
 dopamine hypothesis concerning schizophrenia
Mood Disorders:
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Major depressive disorder
mania
manic disorder
dysthymic disorder
cyclothymic disorder
bipolar disorder
”flight of ideas”
learned helplessness
serotonin
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norepinephrine
cortisol and how it relates to stress
sleep disturbances
psychoanalytic viewpoint on depression
self-blaming attributions
What often cause or initiates depression?
What should a person do to break the cycle of depression?
Depression and people who are chronically lonely
Reasons why depression is increasing
Main ideas and terms to know:
Dissociative Disorders:
 dissociative amnesia
 dissociative fugue
 dissociative identity disorder
 understand the controversy surrounding DID (formerly MPD)
 psychoanalytic view on DID
Somatoform Disorders:
 conversion disorder
 hypochondriasis
 somatization disorder
Developmental Disorders:
 Autism
 Savant syndrome
 Conduct Disorder
 ADHD
 ADD
Personality Disorders:
 paranoid
 schizoid
 Antisocial personality disorder
 Borderline personality disorder
 histrionic personality
 narcissistic personality
 avoidant personality
 dependent personality
 obsessive-compulsive personality
 the relationship between the frontal lobe and reduced self-control of impulsive
murders
 low level of autonomic nervous system arousal as it relates to antisocial
personality disorder
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Suicide Statistics
 males vs. females
 rich vs. poor
 signs of a possible suicide attempt
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