STUDY GUIDE: UNIT XII ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR AP Psychology

[Pages:2]STUDY GUIDE: UNIT XII ? ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR AP Psychology

In addition to the information in this study guide, you are also responsible for all of the content in textbook (Modules 65-69), all information from class notes/discussions, videos, handouts and graphic organizers. It's AP ? it's all fair game

Terms & Concepts All terms & concepts on page 704. (Terms & concepts are also listed on the back of the APP March calendar)

Module 65 65-1: How should we draw the line between normality and disorder?

deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional 65-2: Why is there controversy over ADHD? 65-3: How do the medical model & the biopsychosocial approach help us understand

psychological disorders? 65-4: How and why do clinicians classify psychological disorders?

DSM-5 65-5: Why do some psychologists criticize the use of diagnostic labels? 65-6: How many people suffer, or have suffered, from a psychological disorder?

America & globally Risk factors & protective factors

Module 66 66-1: What are anxiety disorders?

Generalized anxiety disorder - symptoms Panic disorder - symptoms Phobias - symptoms 66-2: What is obsessive-compulsive disorder? Symptoms & common obsessions and compulsions among children 66-3: What is posttraumatic stress disorder? Symptoms 66-4: How do the learning and biological perspectives explain anxiety disorders, OCD, and

PTSD? The learning perspective ? classical & operant conditioning, observational learning The biological perspective ? natural selection, genes, the brain

Module 67 67-1: What are mood disorders?

Major depressive disorder ? symptoms & diagnosis Bipolar disorder ? symptoms & diagnosis

67-2: How do the biological and social-cognitive perspectives explain mood disorders? Biological perspective Social-cognitive perspective Depression cycle

67-3: What factors affect suicide and self-injury?

Module 68 68-1: What patterns of thinking, perceiving, feeling, and behaving characterize schizophrenia?

Psychosis Delusions Hallucinations Selective attention Catatonia Flat affect 68-2: How do chronic and acute schizophrenia differ? Positive symptoms Negative symptoms 68-3: How do brain abnormalities and viral infections help explain schizophrenia? Dopamine, abnormal brain activity, abnormal brain morphology, prenatal viral infection 68-4: Are there genetic influences on schizophrenia? What factors may be early warning signs

in children? Genetic factors Psychological factors

Module 69 69-1: What are somatic symptom and related disorders?

Somatic symptom disorders Conversion disorders Illness anxiety disorder 69-2: What are dissociative disorders, and why are they controversial? Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) 69-3: How do anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder demonstrate the

influence of psychological and genetic forces? anorexia nervosa bulimia nervosa binge-eating disorder 69-4: What are the three clusters of personality disorders? What behaviors and brain activity

characterize the antisocial personality? Avoidant personality disorder Schizoid personality disorder Histrionic personality disorder Narcissistic personality disorder Antisocial personality disorder (psychopath, sociopath)

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