Dramatic-impulsive cluster Histrionic, narcissistic, borderline, antisocial

1. [Spiral] Personality DisordersInstructions: Spend 20 minutes researching these personality disorders on your phones, iPods, or using the psychology textbooks near the window. For 4, write down the symptoms that psychologists might use to diagnose them. • Dramatic-impulsive cluster • Histrionic, narcissistic, borderline, antisocial • Histrionic – overly dramatic, tending to exaggerate expressions of emotion, • Narcissistic – grandiosely self-important, lacking interpersonal empathy, • Borderline – unstable in self-image, mood, and interpersonal relationships, angry outbursts, impulsivity • Antisocial – chronically violating the rights of others, non-accepting of social norms, inability to form attachments. • Odd-eccentric cluster • Schizoid, schizotypal, paranoid • Schizoid – defective in capacity for forming social relationships, • Schizotypal – social deficits and oddities in thinking, perception, and communication, “illusions” of sights and sounds, “magical thinking,” strange superstitions (Bernstein 628) • Paranoid – pervasive and unwarranted suspiciousness and mistrust.

2. (Spiral) FRQ Practice: Disorders and Psychological Perspectives Smeagol often argues with his other personality, Gollum, about his future plans. Many times, however, these two personalities are out-of-touch with each other. He alternates between possessing a benign, pitiable outlook on his past/ future and an alternate murderous perspective regarding his possession of the Ring of Power. • Diagnose his disorder and explain its etiology. • Interpret Smeagol’s disordered behavior and/or its origin using the following psychological perspectives. Red=possible key words. • Humanistic: growth, potential, free will • Behavioral: environment, stimulus, response, condition, reinforcement, punishment, model, etc. • Psychoanalytic: unconscious, drives, childhood • Cognitive: thought process, point-of-view, interpretation • Biological: brain, DNA/genetics, neurotransmitters • Sociocultural: norms, upbringing, expectations, culture,

4. (Spiral) Anxiety and Mood Disorders: • Read Modules 49 (starting pg. 610) and 51 (starting pg. 625) in Myers. • With a partner, write a quiz with 10 questions on anxiety disorders and 10 questions on mood disorders. The questions should focus on identifying specific kinds of these disorders within these categories, their symptoms, and etiologies. • You will have 1 hour to read through the material and write the quiz! Leave it in your spiral and we will take it next class. *No true/false or yes/no questions!