Psychology 220
Exam 2 Review Sheet
Mood Disorders (Chapter 7 & Lecture)
 Overall classification of the 5 mood disorders (unipolar vs. bipolar)
 Symptoms of a Major Depressive Episode
 Subtypes of depression: psychotic features, post partum onset, seasonal onset/Seasonal Affective Disorder
(SAD)
 Diagnostic difference between major depression and dysthymic disorder, double depression
 Manic Episode, hypomania, difference between Bipolar I, Bipolar II, and Cyclothymia
 Genetic contributions to depression: which forms of depression are most heritable?
 Monoamine theories and neurotransmitters implicated
 Neurophysiological abnormalities: potential ion activity differences, 2 changes in sleep, reduced brain size
& activity of prefrontal lobes, hemispheric activity differences at night,
 Behavioral theory of depression, Learned helplessness, reformulated learned helplessness (three
attributional dimensions and typical attributional response to failure), depressive cognitive triad,
rumination, introjected hostility
 Three classes of antidepressant drugs and relatives advantages/disadvantages of each, mood stabilizers
 ECT, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), vagus nerve stimulation,
 Age group most vulnerable to depression; reasons why other age groups may be under diagnosed (elderly
and young children)
 Components of successful cognitive behavioral therapy: activity scheduling, skills training, identify and
challenge negative thoughts
 Possible explanations for gender differences in depression (rumination, interpretation of puberty changes)
 Four types of issues addressed by interpersonal therapists (IPT) when treating depression
Schizophrenia (Chapter 12 & Lecture)
 Positive (5, Note: please treat catatonia a positive symptom) vs. negative symptoms (4), Type I vs. Type II
schizophrenia
 Persecutory delusions, grandiose delusions, delusions of reference (which type is most common?)
 Hallucinations (which type is most common?)
 Types of psychotic disorders: Schizophreniform disorder, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder,
brief psychotic disorder, shared psychotic disorder, substance-induced psychotic disorder
 Subtypes of schizophrenia (5) and their respective symptoms
 Prodromal symptoms and residual symptoms
 Schizophrenogenic mothers
 Genetic concordance rates for schizophrenia
 Structural brain abnormalities associated with the disorder
 Two possible environmental factors that may interact with a genetic predisposition to create schizophrenia
 Dopamine hypotheses and evidence supporting and contracting it
 Research on expressed emotion and relapse
 Biological treatments for schizophrenia: chlorpromazine/Thorazine (blocks D 1& D2 receptors) & Clozapine
(blocks D4 receptors), tardive dyskinesia
 Use of skills training and family therapy to supplement drug treatments
Dissociative Disorders (Chapter 6 (176-191) & Lecture)
 Symptoms of various dissociative disorders
 Controversy over the significantly increased rates of DID and other explanations offered by critics for the
disorder
 Trauma dissociation theory, iatrogenic theory, and evidence supportive of each position
 Treatment of DID: hypnosis and fusion
 Differences between organic amnesia and psychogenic amnesia, anterograde amnesia
Somatoform Disorders (Chapter 6 (163-175) & Lecture)
Revised: 3/7/2016
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Types of somatoform disorders
Psychoanalytic explanation for the occurrence of conversion disorder
La belle indifference, glove anesthesia
Psychosomatic/psychophysiological disorders, factitious disorders, malingering, Munchhausen’s syndrome,
Munchhausen’s syndrome by proxy
Personality Disorders (Chapter 13 & Lecture)
 Definition of a personality disorder
 Defining characteristics of three major “clusters” of personality disorders
 Problems with the DSM personality disorder categorization
 Defining characteristics of three clusters of personality disorders
 Symptoms of each of the 10 specific personality disorders
 Theories for and treatment of antisocial and borderline personality disorder (only)
Revised: 3/7/2016