PLEASE DEFINE THE FOLLOWING ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY TERMS BY GIVING THE DEFINTIONS TO EACH OF THE FOLLOWING BELOW:
Chapter 12
• Psychosis = loss of contact with reality
• Downward drift
• Positive vs. negative symptoms
• Delusions of persecution
• Difference between hallucinations and delusions
• Types of schizophrenia (disorganized, catatonic, paranoid, undifferentiated)
• Genetics and schizophrenia (first degree relatives of a schizophrenic person more likely than second or third degree relatives to develop schizophrenia)
• Stress-vulnerability model
• Token economy
• Milieu therapy
Chapter 13
• Personality
• Difference between personality characteristics and personality disorders
• Comorbidity
• Know the predominant features of each personality disorder (e.g. If you were given a short description of a client, you should be able to select which disorder best describes their set of symptoms)
• Know about the link between borderline personality disorder and suicide attempts
• Know that group therapy is useful for treatment of avoidant personality disorder…why?
• Patients with which disorder are most likely to seek treatment on their own?
• Problems in using the DSM-IV-TR to diagnose personality disorders
Chapter 14
• Differences between boys and girls ??” who is more likely to have a diagnosable psychological disorder?
• Be able to differentiate between oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder
• How does ADHD change from child to adulthood? Does it go away? Do symptoms change?
• Most effective treatment for ADHD = behavioral treatment and medication
• Enuresis
• Key features of autism
• Echolalia
• What treatment is most effective for treating autism?
• Fetal alcohol syndrome
• Normalization programs for people with mental retardation
Chapter 15
• Geropsychology
• Dementia is the most feared psychological problem among the elderly
• How does drug treatment for depression differ for the elderly?
• Substance abuse in the elderly ??” prescription abuse
• Normal vs. abnormal changes in memory that occur with aging
• Alzheimer’s disease
o Onset
o Progression
o What causes it?
o How effective is treatment?
o Caretakers of Alzheimer’s patients
Chapter 16
• Forensic psychologists ??” what types of roles do they have?
• What must be true before a person may be tried for a crime and potentially found guilty?
• Durham test
• M’naghten rule
• What is the most common objection to the insanity plea?
• Relationship between sexual offenses and mental health disorders
• Managed care
• Difference between psychologist and psychiatrist
• Code of ethics
• Confidentiality
