Perspectives on Psychological
Disorders p. 640- 649
Objective 1- What is the Criteria for determining
whether a behavior is psychologically
disordered?
Objective 2- How is the medical model of
psychological disorder different from the
biophysical approach?
Schizophrenia --- Do You Hear What I Hear?
Multiple Personality Disorder --- We Three Queens Disoriented Are
Dementia --- I Think I'll be Home for Christmas
Narcissistic --- Hark the Herald Angles Sing About Me
Manic --- Deck the Halls and Walls and House and Lawn and Streets
and Stores and Office and Town and Cars and Busses and Trucks and
trees and Fire Hydrants and......
Paranoid --- Santa Claus is Coming to Get me
Borderline Personality Disorder --- Thoughts of Roasting on an Open
Fire
Personality Disorder ---You Better Watch Out, I'm Gonna Cry, I'm
Gonna Pout, Maybe I'll tell You Why
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder ---Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,
Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells, Jingle
Bells...
Objective 3- Describe the goals and content of
the DSM- IV.
Objective 4- How can using diagnostic labels be
both beneficial and dangerous?
Anxiety Disorders p. 649- 658
Objective 5- How are anxiety disorders different
from normal feelings of stress or tension?
Objective 6- Anxiety v. Panic Disorder
Objective 7- What defines a phobia?
Objective 8- Symptoms of O.C.D.
Objective 9- What do we know about posttraumatic stress disorder?
Objective 10- How has our understanding of the
development of anxiety disorders changed?
Objective 11- List the symptoms of Dissociative
Disorder and what are people skeptical about
it?
Mood Disorders p. 658- 669
Objective 12- Contrast major depressive
disorders and bipolar disorder.
Objective 13- What are the facts behind the
theory of depression?
Objective 14- What are the contributions of the
biological perspective to the study of
depression and what is the link between
suicide and depression?
Objective 15- How is the social- cognitive
perspective related to depression and what are
the events in the cycle of depression?
Schizophrenia p. 669-677
Objective 16- What are the symptoms of this
disease and what is the difference between
dillusions and hallucinations?
Objective 17- Five subtypes of schizophrenia and
contrast acute and chronic.
Objective 18- Abnormal brain chemistry,
functions and structures associated with
schizophrenia.
Objective 19- Genetics and schizophrenia.
Objective 20- Warnings signs in children…
Objective 21- Contrast the 3 clusters of personality
disorders and discuss the behavior associated
with the antisocial personality disorder.
Rates of Psychological Disorders p. 680- 682
Objective 22- How prevalent are psychological
disorders today and is there a link between
poverty and serious psychological disorders?