Problem
A. Describe the vulnerability-stress model of psychopathology.
B. Which anxiety disorder is most prevalent (common)? Are there gender differences in the prevalence of anxiety disorders?
C. How does learning theory account for the development of anxiety disorders?
D. What are the 4 components of mood disorders?
E. Which mood disorder is most prevalent (common)? Are there gender differences in the prevalence of mod disorders?
F. What are the key features (diagnostic criteria) for each of the following mood disorders: major depressive disorder, dysthymia, mania, bipolar disorder, cyclothymia?
G. What factors are associated with the development of mood disorders? Discuss biological, psychological, and social (cultural/environmental) factors.
H. Discuss Beck's cognitive triad and its proposed relationship to depression. What did Beck mean by a "depressive attributional pattern?"
I. What features characterize dissociative disorders?
J. Differentiate between the following disorders: psychogenic amnesia, psychogenic fugue, and dissociative identity disorder (DID).
K. Define the following terms: schizophrenia, delusion, hallucination, blunted affect, alogia, avolition.
L. List and discuss the differences between positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia.
M. What biological factors are thought to contribute to the development of schizophrenia?
N. What types of treatment are used for schizophrenia?
O. Discuss the various personality disorders. What symptoms are associated with each?