AP Psychology Summer Packet
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Advanced Placement Psychology
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AP Psych- Psychological Disorders
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Psychological Disorders
Medical Model
Concept that diseases have physical causes
Can be diagnosed, treated, and in most cases, cured
Assumes that these "mental" illnesses can be diagnosed on the basis of their symptoms and cured through therapy in a psychiatric hospital
Bio-psycho-social Perspective- assumes that biological, sociocultural, and psychological factors combine and interact to produce psychological disorders
Etiology
DSM-IV
American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
A widely used system for classifying psychological disorders
Neurotic disorder
Usually distressing but that allows one to think rationally and function socially
Freud saw the neurotic disorders as ways of dealing with anxiety
Psychotic disorder
Methods
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Methods (chapter 1) Scientific Method General observation Research question Hypothesis (if?then?) testable prediction. Data, controls ect. Popn General ? area you?re applying Sample ? in experiment GOAL: Sample popn. (representative sample) needs to resemble general popn. Random Sample / Selection ? Each person in popn. has = chance @ being in the study / experiment. *Volunteering is NEVER a random sample* Experimental Method Seeks to confirm cause & affect relationships by introducing independent variables & observing their effects on dependent variables. Research Experiment Correlation
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