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AP Psychology – Chapter Study Guide
Chapter 16: Psychological Disorders
Read Pages 639- Pages 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?
Read Pages 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?
Read Pages 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?
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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?
Read Pages 669-Pages 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 mid-pregnancy
Q8. Is there enough of evidence to prove that genetics influence the development of schizophrenia, and support
your argument?
Read Pages 677-Pages 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?