Chapter 16: Psychological Disorders
HW #95 Due Date
Rd. Pg.639- Pg.649
Q1. Provide an example of how standards of deviance vary with time
Q2. Provide contrasting viewpoints on ADHD being a genuine disorder or
a distressful behavior
Q3. How is dysfunctional behavior considered disordered?
Q4. How did Philipe Pinel reform the perceptions of understanding
psychological disorders?
Q5. Describe disorders that are culture bound
Q6. Describe the factors involved in the biopsychosocial approach to
psychological disorders
Q7. Describe the purpose of diagnostic classification in psychiatry and
psychology
Q8. Describe the accolades and criticisms of the DSM-IV as a diagnostic
process
Q9. How has the movement of positive psychology help identify positive
aspects of human strengths and virtues, and list the six clusters?
Q10. Describe the experiment in which David Rosehan demonstrated the
biasing power of diagnostic labels?
Q11. Should criminals driven by insanity or have a history of mental
illness be jailed or hospitalized for their crimes? Who is held
responsible, the people who commit the crimes, or the “madness” that
clouds their vision?
Q12. How did a female associate of Stewart Page demonstrate the
stigmatizing powers of labels?
Q13. How do stereotypes of mentally individuals stigmatize them? How
violent are people with psychological disorders?
Q14. How do labels serve as self-fulfilling prophecies?
Q15. What are the benefits of diagnostic labels?
HW #96 Due Date
Rd. Pg. 649-658
Q1. Describe the symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder
Q2. Describe the symptoms of a panic disorder and how it escalates into
a panic attack
Q3. How did Charles Darwin develop Agoraphobia?
Q4. Describe how phobias could become incapacitating and provide an
example of a specific phobia
Q5. How did obsessive-compulsive disorder apply to Howard Hughes?
Q6. Describe the symptoms of post-traumatic-stress disorder, and it?s
impact amongst Vietnam veterans
Q7. Describe the stress-dose-response relationship
Q8. Provide an example of survivor resiliency
Q9. Describe the benefits of post-traumatic growth
Q10. Provide a detailed example of how fear conditioning, stimulus
generalization, and reinforcement play a role in developing anxiety
Q11. How does natural selection play a role in developing phobias?
Q12. How do genes indicate predisposition to phobias and anxiety in
humans?
Q13. Explain the findings of fMRI scan on the brains with those who
have OCD?
Q14. How do Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde explain dissociative identity
disorder, and describe the criticisms that this disorder is
manufactured, and a valid disorder?
HW #97: Due Date
Rd. Pg.658-669
Q1. How is depression like the "common cold" of psychological disorders
Q2. How is depression protective for our psyche
Q3. Describe dysthmyic disorder and the symptoms of major depressive
disorder
Q4. List maladaptive symptoms of bipolar disorder and it’s many example
of creative bipolar people
Q5. Describe the six facts that Peter Lewinsohn and his colleagues
summarized about depression
Q6. Summarize five facts about suicide
Q7. What variables triggers suicide?
Q8. What are the chances of depression amongst fraternal and identical
twins?
Q9. Describe linkage analysis and association studies in the search for
genes of depression
Q10. Describe the role of serotonin and norepinephrine relevant to
depression
Q11. How do anatomical structures of the brain change with depression?
Q12. Describe the pessimistic explanatory style and depression
Q13. Why did Martin Seligman argue depression is common amongst young
Westerners?
Q14. How is depression a vicious cycle?
Q15. Why do women have a doubled risk of depression compared to men?
Q16. How does depression elicit rejection?
HW #98:
Due Date
Rd. Pg.669-Pg.677
Q1. Why is chronic schizophrenia the cancer of psychological disorders?
Q2. How does a lack of selective attention affect schizophrenics?
Q3. Describe how delusions, hallucinations, the flat effect, and
catatonia affect schizophrenics
Q4. List and explain the four subtypes of schizophrenia
Q5. How do neurotransmitters dopamine, and glutamate affect the
biochemistry of schizophrenic brains?
Q6. What are some explanations for schizophrenics and their shrinking
brains?
Q7. List the facts that support schizophrenia as a virus affecting
women during midpregnancy
Q8. Is there enough of evidence to prove that genetics influence the
Development of schziophrenia, and support your argument?
HW #99: Due Date
Rd. Pg.677-Pg.682
Q1. List the possible early warning signs of schizophrenia?
Q2. Describe the three clusters of personality disorders
Q3. How does ant-social personality describe the behavior Henry Lee
Lucas?
Q4. How does social responsibility determine anti-social behavior, and
what do PET scans reveal about murderous minds?
Q5. Describe the studies done by Adrian Raine, and how the results
reinforce the biopsychosocial perspective?
Q6. Describe the statistical evidence reflecting how many people have
suffered a psychological disorder?
Q7. Do you have a family member or friend who has experienced a
psychological order? If so, has anything you have read in this chapter
increased your understanding of the challenges that person has been
facing?
Chapter 17: Psychological Therapy
HW #100: Due Date
Rd. Pg. 685-Pg.699
Q1. Describe the process of free association and it’s criticisms
Q2. Describe interpersonal psychotherapy and how psychotherapist might
treat the case of Anna
Q3. How do humanistic therapist differ from psychotherapists?
Q4. What are the three hints towards listening more actively in your
own relationship?
Q5. How did Mary Cover Jones treat thee year old peter, and what new
method of therapy was discovered?
Q6. How dies systematic desensitization and progressive reduction help
with common phobias?
Q7. Provide an example of virtual reality exposure therapy
Q8. How does aversion therapy treat alcoholism?
Q9. Describe the application of token economy, and criticisms of token
modification
Q10. Describe Aaron Beck’s cognitive therapy or depression
Q11. How do individuals with OCD use cognitive-therapy to alter they
way they think and act?
Q12. Describe the benefits of group therapy and the wide-range of
implications on support groups
Q13. How are client's testimonials misleading concerning psychotherapy?
Q14. How do we attribute the results of therapy towards regression
towards the mean?
HW #101: Due Date
Rd. Pg.700-Pg.710
Q1. Describe the several reasons why client testimonials do not
persuade psychotherapy’s skeptics
Q2. Why are compliments by patients as well as expression of gratitude
misleading in terms of therapeutic effectiveness
Q3. Describe Hans Esysenck’s famous study disputing the effectiveness
of psychotherapy, and how his conclusions were interpreted by metaanalysis
Q4. Describe the studies in 1999 conducted by the National Institute of
Health confirming how psychotherapy works?
Q3. Describe the revolutionary effectiveness of EDMR on PTSD?
Q5. Explain the bright idea created by National Institute of Mental
Health researchers in battling SAD?
Q6. What are the findings from meta-analysis that helps treat
demoralized people?
Q7. Describe the clashing viewpoints in term of cultures and values in
psychotherapy between psychotherapist Albert Ellis, and Allen Bergin?
Q8. Describe Rational-Emotive Therapy (RET)
HW#102: Due Date
Rd. Pg.711-Pg.720
Q1. Describe the double blind technique in terms of drug therapy
Q2. Contrast antipsychotic drugs that target D1 Dopamine receptors,
compared ant psychotic drugs that target D2 Dopamine receptors, and the
side affects, which go along with these powerful drugs
Q3. Discuss the criticism made of anti-anxiety drugs such as Xanax?
Q4. Describe the biological process of selective-seritonin-reuptakeinhibitors (SSRIs) such as Prozac, Zoloft, and Paxil?
Q5. How does increased seritnonin promote neurogenesis?
Q6. Describe the analyses of double blind clinical trials by Irving
Kirsch regarding the placebo effect and antidepressants
Q7. Explain the suicide-risk concern with Prozac, and should it be a
legitimate concern?
Q8. Provide evidence how the popular mood stabilizing drug lithium
works effectively on bipolar depression
Q9. Why is ECT the preferred treatment for depression that does not
respond to drug therapy?
Q10. Describe the double-blind experiment with 67 Israelis concerning
rTMS and depression
Q11. Why is psychosurgery such as lobotomies abandoned used as part of
biomedical therapies in the present day?
Q12. How does the story of the rescue of the drowning person in the
river illustrate new approach to preventing psychological disorders?