Psychology 198: Exam 3 Review Sheet
Exam will cover all information presented in the textbook, lecture, films and handouts!
Chapter 13: Stress, Coping, and Health
Biopsychosocial model
Health psychology
Nature of Stress
stress as an everyday event, appraisal
Major types of stress
Frustration, Conflict (approach-approach conflict, avoidance-approach conflict, approach-avoidance
conflict)
Change (life changes, pressure)
Responding to stress (emotional responses; types and effects of emotional arousal)
Physiological responses (fight or flight response, general adaptation syndrome, brain body Pathways)
Behavioral responses (coping, learned helplessness, aggression, catharsis, internet addiction, defense
mechanisms, defensive coping, constructive coping)
Stress and physical health
Type A and Type B personality
Emotional reactions, depression, and heart disease
Stress, disease, and immune functioning
Immune response
Factors moderating the impact of stress (including social support, optimism)
Positive effects of health
Health-impairing behavior
Reactions to illness
Humor as a stress reduction, relaxation techniques, Ellis’ rational thinking model
Chapter 14: Psychological Disorders
Medical Model
Diagnosis and prognosis
Criteria of abnormal behavior
Psychodiagnosis: the classification of disorders
Prevalence of psychological disorders (epidemiology and prevalence)
Anxiety disorders (generalized anxiety disorder, phobic disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia,
OCD, posttraumatic stress disorder)
Etiology of anxiety disorders
Biological factors (concordance factors)
Conditioning and learning
Cognitive factors
Personality
Stress
Somatoform disorders
Somatization disorder
Conversion disorder
Hypochondriasis
Etiology of somatoform disorders
Cognitive factors
Sick role
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Dissociative disorders
Dissociative amnesia and fugue
Dissociative identity disorders
Etiology of personality disorders
Mood disorders
Major depressive disorder and dhystymic disorder
Bipolar disorder and cyclothymic disorder
Etiology of mood disorders
Genetic vulnerability
Neurochemical factors
Cognitive factors
Interpersonal roots
Precipitating stress
Schizophrenic disorders
General symptoms
Delusions and irrational thought, deterioration of adaptive behavior, hallucinations,
disturbed
Emotions
Subtypes, course, and outcome
Paranoid, catatonic, disorganized, undifferentiated
Positive and negative symptoms
Course and outcome
Etiology of schizophrenia
Genetic vulnerability
neurochemical factors
structures in the brain,
neurodevelopmental hypothesis
expressed emotion
Culture and pathology
Diagnostic problems
Psychology disorders and the law
Insanity and involuntary commitment
Culture and pathology: culture bound disorders
Eating disorders: Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa; including etiology
Chapter 15: Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Clients
Therapists
Psychologists, psychiatrists
Insight therapies
Psychoanalysis (free association, dream analysis)
Probing the unconscious
Resistance
Transference
Modern psychodynamics
Client Centered Therapies
Therapeutic climate and processes
Group therapies
Participant roles and advantages of the group experience
Evaluating insight theories
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Behavior therapies
Systematic desensitization
Aversion therapy
Social skills training
Cognitive-behavioral treatments
Evaluating behavior therapies
Biomedical therapies
antianxiety drugs, antipsychotic drugs, antidepressant drugs, lithium
Evaluating Drug therapies
ECT
Current trends and issues in treatment
Managed care
Identifying empirically supported treatments
Increasing multicultural sensitivity in treatment
Institutional treatment in transition
Deinstitutionalization
Mental illness and homelessness
GOOD LUCK AND DONT STRESS – JUST STUDY!!
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