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April 22, 2022

Monday April 22, 2022


Circle: Something you use to believe or worry about as a child that when you look back on it now is quite silly.

1.You should have completed the read through the AP Study guide.
2. Reminder about practice AP Test due Wednesday at beginning of class.

FRQ and scoring

Introduce Abnormal Psychology:

How should we draw the line between normality and disorder?
What perspectives can help us understand psychological disorders?
How and why do clinicians classify psychological disorders?
What are anxiety disorders, and how do they differ from ordinary worries and fears?
What produces the thoughts and feelings that mark anxiety disorders?
What are somatoform disorders?
What are dissociative disorders, and why are they controversial?
What are mood disorders, and what forms do they take?
What patterns of thinking, perceiving, feeling, and behaving characterize schizophrenia?
What causes schizophrenia?
What characteristics are typical of personality disorders?

How many people suffer, or have suffered, from a psychological disorder?


What is it like to have depression?

Activity: Look up rates of mental illness;
In America
Worldwide
In Maine
In Men
In Women
In Teenagers
What are the most prevalent mental illnesses?
What are the rarest mental illnesses?

If we have time:

Activity: Revised Suicide Quiz

Activity: Social Anxiety Thoughts

Activity: Taylor Manifest Anxiety Scale

Activity: Measuring Fear


  • Phobias
  • Generalized Anxiety Disorder
  • Panic Disorder
  • Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
  • Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
  • Somatization Disorders
  • Hypochondriasis
  • Conversion Disorders
  • Somatoform Pain Disorders
  • Depersonalization
  • Dissociative Amnesia
  • Dissociative fugue states
  • Dissociative Identity Disorder
  • Major Depression
  • Bipolar Disorder
  • Schizophrenia
  • Delusional Disorder
  • Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
  • Schizoid Personality Disorder
  • Antisocial Personality Disorder
  • Anorexia
  • Bulimia
  • Tourette Syndrome
  • Munchausen's Syndrome
  • Impulse Control Disorders

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