Study Guide: Questions & Answers
1. What is the difference between a delusion and hallucination?
2. The view that mental problems are caused by physical illness is known as the
3. Psychological models of mental illness emphasize the contribution of
4. The ________ approach to psychological disorders focuses on abnormalities in the brain and nervous system.
5. ________ is the most common of all major mental disturbances.
6. The tendency for some depressed persons to think that they cannot do anything to change their negative fate is termed ________ by Martin Seligman.
7. The tendency for women to ________ accounts for their higher depression rates relative to men.
8. Bipolar disorder was once known as...
9. Nancy feels anxious for long periods of time, but she is not afraid of anything in particular. She likely suffers fro...
10. The ________ is a key brain region involved in panic attacks.
11. The ________ suggests that we are innately predisposed to fear some stimuli more than others.
12. Jaci has just become blind. The fact that there is no physical reason for this suggests that Jaci may be suffering from...
13. When one loses his or her memory, but there is no known reason for the memory loss, the person may be suffering from ________.
14. A key feature of ________ is an odd motor state in which the individual may remain frozen in a stupor for long periods of time.
15. A diagnosis of ________ schizophrenia is reserved for persons whose symptoms do not clearly fall into other categories.
16. Define the diathesis-stress hypothesis of schizophrenia.
17.  ________ disorders are chronic, inflexible, pervasive, and maladaptive patterns of thinking, emotions, or relationships.
18. A key feature of ________ is a history of irresponsible behavior in a person who does not experience shame or intense emotion of any kind.
19. Psychiatrist Thomas Szasz argues that mental illness.
20.________ is a legal term, not a psychiatric or psychological term.

Board Game AP Review Project

In groups of 3-4 pick one of the topics chapters to review
1. Unit 1 Intro & History
2. Unit 2 Research Methods
3. Unit 3 Biopsychology
4. Unit 4&5 Sensation & Perception / States of Consciousness
5. Unit 6&7 Learning & Cognition
6. Unit 8 Emotion & Motivation
7. Unit 9 Psychological Development
8. Unit 10 Personality
9. Unit 11 Testing & Individual Differences
10. Unit 12-13 Psychological Disorders & Therapies

Groups will design a Board Game to Review the vocabulary or ideas of that chapter
Must include:
A game board with Title (see example game board) (5pts)
Integrated into game 20+ Questions on vocabulary of chapter or short trivia questions on chapter selected (10pts)
Short instruction on gameplay and rules (5pts)
Creative design or interesting play on the game board to help facilitate review (5pts)
Include all the designers name & short description of what they did for project. (5pts)

Total: 30pts

Students will rate the most helpful and entertaining game board for each class.
DUE DATE: APRIL 24th Thursday

Web Research – Antisocial Personalities
Research one of the these listed topics:
   Richard Ramirez
   Jeffery Dahmer
   Ted Bundy
   Aileen Wuornos
   Ed Gein

Write/type a 1 page Psychological Profile
1. Name & family background
2. List crimes and suspected crimes
3. Abnormal & psychological tendencies

Tip: Extra points will be included for a portrait (pic) of the person and design that is similar to a police or law enforcement profile of the subject.

1. A test that measures what it is supposed to measure has ________, while a test that yields consistent results over time has ________.
2. Define face validity and content validity.
3. Define split-half reliability and test-retest reliability.
4. In a normal distribution, what percentage of the population should fall within the normal range?
5. When establishing norms it is important to first ________ before comparing other people to the norm.
6. ________ is defined as the the average age at which normal (average) individuals achieve a particular intelligence score.
7. The Stanford-Binet test was developed by
8. The term ________ refers to the ratio of mental age divided by chronological age multiplied by 100.
9. A key problem with Terman's original formula for computing IQ is that it
10. In his decades-long study of giftedness, Lewis Terman found that
11. The concept of ________ was denoted by the symbol "g" by Charles Spearman.
12. Charles Spearman argued that the g factor in intelligence is based on what? Nature or nurture?
13. Robert Sternberg would say that a person who has "street smarts," even though he does not do well in school has what type of intelligence?

14. Heritability refers to ________ not ________.
15. Arthur Jensen proposed that there are limits to increases in the improvement of IQ scores for ________ because of heredity.
16. What did Scarr and Weinberg found in their classic study?
17. Critics have accused Murray and Herrnstein (authors of The Bell Curve) of ignoring which of the following rules that scientists should observe in interpreting research?

Applying Theories of Intelligence

Scenario: Eddie is a ten year-old and his parents have just been told that he is mentally challenged based on the standard IQ (80) and achievement tests. Eddie has difficulty with his course work, but he has a lovable disposition and gets along well with his teacher and the other children in his class. He enjoys camping and the outdoors and is excellent at basketball and often will go outside to shoot free-throws rather that doing his homework. Eddie also enjoys listening to music and is interested in learning the guitar.

Instructions: Using the theory of intelligence that you have been assigned, write and assessment of Eddie’s intelligence for his parents. Take the position of a psychologist in the school with the particular theory you have been assigned. Include how you would assess Eddie’s intelligence and his future success in the world.

1. Triarchic Theory
2. Multiple Intelligence Theory
3. Emotional Intelligence

Unit 10 Personality  -  Study Guide

1. ________ is defined as the unique qualities and distinctive behavior patterns of an individual across time and situations.
2. The ________ is the unconscious part of a personality, whereas the ________ acts as our conscience.
3. In the different ________ stages, children are thought to associate pleasure with different bodily regions.
4. Define projection, displacement, and reaction formation.
5. The concept of psychic determinism suggests that...
6. According to Jung's principle of opposites, each personality is balanced between opposing tendencies, such as ________ and ________.
7. Karen Horney believed that ________ may block the normal development of a personality.
8. ________ proposed the first trait theory, involving cardinal, central, and secondary traits.
9. Carl Rogers defined the ________ as our subjective or perceived reality.
10. Rogers would say that a student who views herself as brilliant, but earns Cs in all her classes is experiencing
11. ________ refers to a recently developed psychological movement that emphasizes the study of desirable aspects of human functioning.
12. ________ refers to the concept of the mutual influence of cognition, behavior, and environment.
13. ________ theorists have determined five major characteristics of personality.
14. Which of the following Big Five personality characteristics is often associated with negative emotions and anxiety?
15. A serious criticism of trait theories is that they...
16. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is...
17. Your first impression of a librarian or athlete is...
18. Buck watches as Janet trips. Buck assumes this occurred because Janet is a clutz (rather than thinking it was because the sidewalk was filled with gravel). Buck has committed the ________ error.

Major Freudian defense mechanisms: Write your own example for each in your notebook

1. Repression
2. Regression
3. Reaction formation
4. Rationalization
5. Displacement
6. Sublimation
7. Projection
8. Denial

Study for Unit 9 Test - Pg 359-402

Concepts to Study

Developmental Psychology

Continuity & Discontinuity

Nature vs Nuture

Prenatal & Infancy Development (Fetus, Synaptic Pruning, etc)

Attachment Styles – Mary Ainsworth

Imprinting – Konrad Lorenz

Contact Comfort - Harry Harlow

Cupboard Theory – Freud

Parenting Styles - Diana Baumrind

Jean Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development

Lev Vygotsky – Proximal Zone of Development

Erik Erikson’s Social Development Theory

Lawernce Kohlberg’s Moral Development Theory

5 Stages of Psychological Adjustment – Kubler-Ross

—  Review

◦       Ekman & Plutchick research on emotions

◦       Biological aspect of emotions

–   Where does our emotions come from?

–   Lateralization of Emotions

◦       Theories of Emotions (4)

◦       Drive vs Motives

◦       Theories of Motivation

–   Instinct Theory

–   Drive Theory

–   Psychodynamic Theory

–   Incentive Theory

–   Cognitive Theory (Locus of control)

◦       Achievement – Cognitive Awareness

◦       Hunger Motivation – Hypothalamus, set point, fat cells

◦       Sex Motivation – Alfred Kinsey, Masters & Johnson, 4 stages of arousal