Module 39: Basic Concepts and Mood Disorders

Module Thirty Nine Goals

1.  To understand the factors in mental disorders. 2.  To understand labeling of psychological disorders. 3.  To understand diagnosing mental disorders. 4.  To understand mood disorders.

Goal:  To understand the factors in mental disorders.

1.  Define psychological disorder.

2.  Complete the following table describing the social norm approache used to decide abnormality.

Popular Approach in Deciding Abnormality

The Medical Model Approach

Describe this approach and explain why it is a useful way of understanding abnormal behavior.

The Biopsychosocial Approach

Describe this approach and explain why it is a useful way of understanding abnormal behavior.

Goal:  To understand the diagnosing of mental disorders.

3.  What is the DSM-IV-TR? What is it major improvement over the DSM-III?

4. What is the difference between an Axis I diagnosis and an Axis III diagnosis?

5.  Summarize (100 words or less) the results of David Rosenhan’s classic study on psychological labeling.

Goal:  To understand mood disorders, causes and treatments.

6.  Complete the following table describing mood disorders.

Major depression	Bipolar  disorder
Description:	Description:

7.  Complete the following table on the causes of mood disorders.

Causes of Mood Disorders
Biological Factors	Psychological Factors
Genetic factors:	Social cognitive perspective:
Brain Scans:	Stressful Life Events:
Name the 2 neurotransmitters most implicated in mood disorders:	Vicious cycle of depressed thinking.

Module 40: Schizophrenia

Module Forty Goals

1. To understand schizophrenia as a psychotic disorder 2.  To understand the symptoms of schizophrenia. 3.  To understand the subtypes of schizophrenia 4.  To understand the causes of schizophrenia 5.  To understand the Diathesis Stress Theory.

1.  What is schizophrenia?

2. What is disorganized thinking?

3. Define disturbed perceptions.

4.  What is the difference between negative and positive symptoms of schizophrenia?

5.  Complete the following table on schizophrenia.

Schizophrenia
Subtypes	Description
Paranoid
Catatonic
Disorganized

6.  Complete the following table on the causes of schizophrenia

Causes of Schizophrenia
Biological	Psychological
Genetic Evidence:	Environmental Causes (Cite the author’s conclusion on psychological causes.
Dopamine Theory:
Abnormal Brain Activity:

7. Diathesis Stress Theory states that some people have a genetic predisposition (a diathesis) that interacts with life stressors to result in the onset and development of schizophrenia.  This is not a question but a term to be understood.

Module 41: Other Disorders

Module Forty One Goals

1. To understand the different anxiety disorders. 2.  To understand the causes of anxiety disorders. 3.  To understand dissociative disorders. 4.  To understand personality disorders. 5.  To understand the antisocial personality.

Goal:  To understand anxiety and somatoform disorders.

1.  Complete the following table on Generalized Anxiety Disorder.

Generalized Anxiety Disorder
Description	Symptoms

2.  Complete the following table on Panic disorder.

Panic Disorder
Description	Symptoms

3.  Complete the following table on phobias?

Phobias
Phobia	Description
Social phobia
Specific phobia
Agoraphobia

4.  What is an obsessive-compulsive disorder? (What are obsessions and what are compulsions?)

5.  What is post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and what does the research cite as reasons for those who have increased vulnerability to PTSD?

6.  Complete the following table on the causes of anxiety disorders from psychology’s various perspectives.

Understanding Causes of Anxiety Disorders
Perspective	Explain Cause
Learning	Fear Conditioning
	Observational Learning
Biology	Natural Selection
	Genes
	Brain

7.  What is a somatoform disorder?

8.  Describe conversion disorder.

9.  What is hypochondriasis?

10.  Complete the following table on dissociative disorders. *Note: Amnesia and Fugue will have to be researched outside of your textbook.

Dissociative Disorders
Disorder	Description
Amnesia
Fugue
Dissociative Identity disorder

11.  What is a personality disorder?

12.  Complete the following table on personality disorders.

Personality Disorders
Disorder	Description
Schizoid
Histrionic
Avoidant
Antisocial

13.  Cite evidence supporting the cause for antisocial personality disorder.

a. Genetic evidence

b. Brain scans

c. Characteristics during childhood