Preisser Study Guide for Test 6 Chapters 12, 13 and 14

Chap 12
Explain the different perspectives on psychological disorders: Society, Individual, and Mental Health
Professional
Throughout history, mental disorders have been explained differently. How?
The current models of abnormal behavior are:
1. biological model
2. psychoanalytic model
3. cognitive-behavioral model
4. diathesis-stress model
5. systems theory or biopsychosocial model
Explain each.
Define insanity.
What is the DSM-IV-TR and what is it used for?
Describe and recognize examples of mood disorders in general, and in terms of depression, clinical
depression, and bipolar disorder.
Describe and recognize examples of anxiety disorders in general, and specifically phobias, panic
disorders, generalized anxiety disorder and obsessive-compulsive disorders.
Describe and recognize examples of somatoform disorders.
Describe and recognize examples of dissociative identity disorders in general, and in terms of types of
amnesia, dissociative identity disorder, and depersonalization.
Describe and recognize examples of personality disorders in general, and specifically narcissistic,
borderline and antisocial personality disorders.
Describe and recognize examples of schizophrenia in general.
Chap 13
What is psychotherapy? There are five main categories of therapy: insight, behavior, cognitive therapies,
group therapies, and biological treatments. Describe each in general, as well as each specific therapy
discussed, and recognize examples of each. Discuss the pros and cons of deinstitutionalization.
Chap 14
What does Social Psychology study?
How do we form impressions of others?
What is a schemata?
Explain the primacy effect.
Discuss and provide examples of the self-fulfilling prophecy. What is the impact?
What are stereotypes?
Discuss attribution theory. Explain differences between internal or external attributions.
Define, explain and provide an example of each:
- fundamental attribution error,
- self-serving bias, and
- just-world hypothesis.

Understand and explain the five factors related to interpersonal attraction, that is, proximity, physical
attraction, similarity, exchange and intimacy.
Summarize the research on attractive persons.
Define attitude. Explain the three basic components of an attitude. Where do our attitudes come from?
What is cognitive dissonance?
What is social influence?
Explain and discuss conformity, including Soloman Aschs experiment.
Explain and discuss compliance, including foot-in-the-door effect.
Explain and discuss obedience, including Stanley Milgrams experiment.
What is meant by social action?
Define deindividuation.
What is altruistic behavior?
Explain the bystander effect.