Review Sheet - Exam #4 & Cumulative PDF

## Review Sheet - Exam #4 1. Describe the features of paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders. How are they similar and how are they different from one another? 2. Describe the features of antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic personality disorders. How are they sim...

## Review Sheet - Exam #4 1. Describe the features of paranoid, schizoid, and schizotypal personality disorders. How are they similar and how are they different from one another? 2. Describe the features of antisocial, borderline, histrionic, and narcissistic personality disorders. How are they similar and how are they different from one another? 3. Describe the features of avoidant, dependent, and obsessive-compulsive personality disorders. 4. Differentiate psychopathy and antisocial personality disorder? 5. Be able to discuss the different biological and psychological components/treatments of each of the personality disorders discussed in class. 6. Discuss problems in the classification of personality disorders discussed in class (e.g. gender bias) 7. Describe the prevalence of schizophrenia and its genetic expression. 8. Describe the phases of schizophrenia. 9. Distinguish schizophrenia from brief psychotic disorder, schizophreniform disorder, and other disorders within the schizophrenic spectrum. 10. Know the difference between the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. 11. Identify the good and bad prognostic indicators regarding schizophrenia. 12. Discuss theoretical perspectives and interventions focusing on schizophrenia. Be sure to be able to identify the explanations for schizophrenia that have fallen out of favor or are less prominent than once thought. 13. Discuss the features of the different psychotic disorders. 14. Why is it more difficult to diagnose children with mental illnesses? 15. Discuss features for autism spectrum disorders. 16. Discuss features and causes of intellectual developmental disorder. 17. Discuss features of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder 20. What is the difference between conduct disorder and oppositional defiant disorder? 21. What is the controversy around bipolar disorder in children and the new disorder that attempts to address the controversy in part? ## Cumulative Part of Exam 1. Identify the criteria used to define abnormality or pathology. Which two are the most important in defining abnormality? 2. Discuss the following goals and methods for each of the perspectives on abnormal behavior, their ability to explain abnormal behavior and treat psychopathology: biological, psychodynamic, behavioral, humanistic, cognitive, sociocultural, and family systems. 4. What is situational anxiety and trait anxiety? 5. Define and describe panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, PTSD and phobias. 6. Describe the various methods for treating anxiety disorders. 7. Describe the features of major depressive disorder and dysthymic disorder, and distinguish between them. 8. Describe the features of bipolar disorder and cyclothymic disorder. 9. Discuss psychodynamic, behavioral, cognitive, and biological perspectives on the origins and treatment of mood disorders. 10. Describe the major features of dissociative identity disorder, dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, and depersonalization-derealization disorder. 11. Describe various methods for treating dissociative disorders. 12. Describe the various somatoform disorders. 13. How are anorexia and bulimia similar and different? 14. Describe the features of binge-eating disorder and how it differs from bulimia. 15. What is the difference between pica, feeding, and rumination disorders? 16. Describe binge-eating disorder. 17. What are the major treatments for eating disorders? 18. Describe the physical and psychological effects and prevalence of all the different classes and specific psychoactive substances. 19. Define and describe the features of various paraphilias. 20. Discuss theoretical perspectives on the paraphilias and ways of treating them.