Psychological Disorders Study Guide

Please put your answers on a separate piece of paper.

Practice Free Response #1 -- Answer the following question as if it were an FRQ

1.  Discuss the cause of anxiety from each of the following psychological perspectives.

   • Behavioral

   • Psychoanalytic/psychodynamic

   • Biological

   • Cognitive

2. Discuss a specific treatment technique for reducing anxiety used by professionals representing each of the four psychological perspectives (you may research this in order to answer)

Answer or define these terms

1.  Define psychological disorder - deviant, distressful, and dysfunctional
2.  Medical model
3.  How is DSM-5 reliable? What does the DSM-5 NOT do?
4.  David Rosenhan (1973) - diagnostic labels
5.  Judicial systems – insanity
6.   Anxiety disorder behaviors
7.  Generalized anxiety disorder and depression
8.  Free-floating  anxiety
9.  Panic attacks
10.   Specific phobia
11.  Social anxiety disorder
12.  Obsession; compulsion
13.  PTSD
14.  Post-traumatic growth
15.  Reinforcement by anxiety reduction
16.  Phobia - observational learning
17.  Mood disorders.
18.  “The common cold” of psychological disorders
19.  Mania - bipolar disorder
20.  Depression - self-blaming
21.  Social-cognitive perspective
22.  Schizophrenia
- Hallucination; delusion
- Positive and negative symptoms
- Fluid in brain and thalamus
- Prenatal viral infections
23.  Somatic symptom disorder
24.  Conversion disorder
25.  Illness anxiety disorder
26.  Dissociative disorders - memory
27.  Dissociative identity disorder - role-playing
28.  Anorexia nervosa
29.  Bulimia nervosa
30.  Binge-eating disorder
31.  Personality disorders - anxiety, eccentricity, and impulsivity
32.  Narcissistic personality disorder
33.  Schizoid personality disorder
34.  Psychopath
35.  Biomedical therapies