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AP Psych DMA

AP Psych DMA. In which disorder do people alternate between states of lethargic hopelessness and wild overexcitement? What are psychotic disorders? Give one example. Please turn in your Chap. 15 test review/reflection Please write the questions and leave room for your answers. Today’s Agenda.

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AP Psych DMA

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  1. AP Psych DMA • In which disorder do people alternate between states of lethargic hopelessness and wild overexcitement? • What are psychotic disorders? Give one example. Please turn in your Chap. 15 test review/reflection Please write the questions and leave room for your answers.

  2. Today’s Agenda • DMA/turn in test review • AP Seminar Reminders • Chapter 16 • Criteria for abnormal • behavior • Anxiety Disorders Homework: • Chap. 16 & 17 Test – Monday, Mar. 19th • Chap. 16 & 17 notes due Monday, Mar. 19th • FRQ # 1 & 2 due Friday, Mar. 9th • FRQ #3 due Monday, Mar. 12th • T-Shirt design – due Friday, Mar. 9th

  3. AP Seminars • Extra credit • Don’t forget to sign-in • If you plan on taking the AP Exam – you need to go. • Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday • You only need to go 1 day • 7:30 in Ms. West’s classroom

  4. Criteria for Abnormal Behavior

  5. Context of the Behavior • This is a subjective judgment • but you know that some behaviors are clearly bizarre in a given situation. • Examples?

  6. Persistence of behavior • We all have our “crazy” moments. • A person may exhibit abnormal behavior on occasion without necessarily demonstrating the presence of mental illness.

  7. Social Deviance • When a person’s behavior radically violates expectations and norms… • it may meet criteria for social deviance.

  8. Subjective Distress • Frequently we are aware of our own psychological difficulties • suffering they are causing us.

  9. Psychological Handicap • When a person has great difficulty being satisfied with life due to psychological problems • this is considered to be a psychological handicap.

  10. Effect on Functioning • The extent to which the behaviors in question interfere with a person’s ability to live the life that he or she desires, • and that society will accept, • may be the most important factor in diagnosing psychological problems. • A behavior could be bizarre and persistent, but if it does not impair your ability to function in life, pathology may NOT need to be indicated.

  11. And now for the disorders…

  12. Psychological Disorders • Neurotic Disorder • usually distressing but that allows one to think rationally and function socially • Psychotic Disorder • person loses contact with reality • experiences irrational ideas and distorted perceptions

  13. Anxiety Disorders • Anxiety Disorders • distressing, persistent anxiety • maladaptive behaviors that reduce anxiety • Generalized Anxiety Disorder • person is tense, apprehensive, and in a state of autonomic nervous system arousal • Social Anxiety Disorder - clip

  14. Anxiety Disorders • Panic Disorder • minutes-long episode of intense dread in which a person experiences terror and accompanying chest pain, choking, or other frightening sensation

  15. Anxiety Disorders • Phobia • persistent, irrational fear of a specific object or situation • Could be afraid of situations or items • What are you phobic of? • Media’s impression - clip

  16. Anxiety Disorders • Common and uncommon fears

  17. Anxiety Disorders • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder • unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or actions (compulsions) • Rituals, fear of germs, trying to maintain control. • Clip • Clip

  18. Anxiety Disorders

  19. Anxiety Disorders • PET Scan of brain of person with Obsessive/ Compulsive disorder • High metabolic activity (red) in frontal lobe areas involved with directing attention

  20. What does “mood” mean? Discuss with a neighbor…

  21. Mood Disorders • Mood Disorders • characterized by emotional extremes • Major Depressive Disorder • a mood disorder in which a person, for no apparent reason, experiences two or more weeks of depressed moods, feelings of worthlessness, and diminished interest or pleasure in most activities

  22. Mood Disorders • Manic Episode • a mood disorder marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state • Bipolar Disorder • a mood disorder in which the person alternates between the hopelessness and lethargy of depression and the overexcited state of mania • formerly called manic-depressive disorder

  23. Mood Disorders-Depression

  24. Mood Disorders-Depression • Canadian depression rates

  25. Mood Disorders- Suicide

  26. Depressed state Manic state Depressed state Mood Disorders-Bipolar • PET scans show that brain energy consumption rises and falls with emotional switches

  27. Mood Disorders-Depression • Altering any one component of the chemistry-cognition-mood circuit can alter the others

  28. Mood Disorders-Depression • The vicious cycle of depression can be broken at any point

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