Answer each question with 1 – 3 sentences each:
1.What is a psychological disorder?
2. How do psychologists and other mental health professionals determine if a behavior is abnormal?
Know the four criteria used to determine if a behavior is abnormal (refer to list
in 14.1, under the Learning Tip)
3. Why do we need to be mindful of culture when discussion abnormality?
4. What is the diathesis-stress model?
5. What causes Psychological Disorders? Know the biopsychosocial model (biological
factors, psychological factors, and social factors involved in psychological disorders).
Examples of biological factors:
Examples of psychological factors:
Examples of social factors:
6. What is the DSM-5 and it’s benefits and limitations?
7. Differentiate between the Anxiety disorders:
Panic Disorder:
Specific Phobias:
Agoraphobia:
Social Anxiety Disorder:
Generalized Anxiety Disorder:
PTSD:
8. What is obsessive-compulsive disorder? Know the difference between obsession and
compulsion in examples.
Obsession:
Compulsion:
9.What is a major depressive episode?
10. What factors lead to depression? What role do learned helplessness and negative thinking
play?
11. What are bipolar disorders? You do not need to differentiate between type I and type II
but you do need to know what a major depressive episode and a manic episode are and
what factors lead to being diagnosed with bipolar.
12. What is schizophrenia? Recognize examples of:
Delusions
Hallucinations
Positive symptoms
Negative symptoms
13. What are the symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder? ADHD?
Autism Spectrum Disorder:
ADHD:
14. What is meant by Personality Disorder? Although there are 10 listed in your text, you are
only expected to know three:
Narcissistic
Antisocial
Borderline
15. What is Dissociation? Differentiate between Dissociative Amnesia, Dissociative Fugue,
and Dissociative Identity Disorder.
Dissociative Amnesia:
Dissociative Fugue:
Dissociative Identity Disorder:
Requirements: 1 – 3 Sentences Each Question Times New Roman Size 12 Font Double-Spaced APA Format Excluding the Title and Reference Pages
Please be sure to carefully follow the instructions
No plagiarism & No Course Hero & No Chegg. The assignment will be checked for originality via the Turnitin plagiarism tool
Please be sure to include at least one in-text citation for each question answer
Please be sure to use credible or scholarly sources
