AP Psych DMA

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AP Psych DMA

• Compare/contrast phobia and generalized anxiety
  disorder.
• What are the symptoms of antisocial personality
  disorder.
• Please turn in
• DMAs
• FRQs 1 2
• Your T-shirt design

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Todays Agenda

• DMA/turn in FRQs, DMAs, T-shirts
• Chapter 16 17 test
• Chapter 16
• Dissociative disorders
• Schizophrenia
• Personality disorders
• Homework
• Chap. 16 17 Test Monday, Mar. 19th
• Chap. 16 17 notes due Monday, Mar. 19th
• FRQ 3 due Monday, Mar. 12th

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Anxiety Disorders

• Panic Disorder
• minutes-long episode of intense dread
• in which a person experiences terror chest
  pain, choking, or other frightening sensation

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Anxiety Disorders

• Phobia
• persistent, irrational fear of a specific object
  or situation
• Could be afraid of situations or items
• What are you phobic of?
• Medias impression - clip

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Anxiety Disorders

• Common and uncommon fears

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Anxiety Disorders

• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• unwanted repetitive thoughts (obsessions) and/or
  actions (compulsions)
• Rituals, fear of germs, trying to maintain
  control
• Clip
• Clip

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Anxiety Disorders
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Anxiety Disorders

• PET Scan of brain of person with OCD
• High metabolic activity (red) in frontal lobe
  areas involved with directing attention

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What does mood mean?

• Discuss with a neighbor

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Mood Disorders

• Mood Disorders
• characterized by emotional extremes
• Major Depressive Disorder
• a person experiences two (or more) weeks of
  depressed moods
• feelings of worthlessness
• diminished interest/pleasure in most activities

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Mood Disorders

• Manic Episode
• Marked by a hyperactive, wildly optimistic state
• Bipolar Disorder
• Person alternates between the hopelessness
  lethargy of depression
• AND the overexcited state of mania
• formerly called manic-depressive disorder

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Mood Disorders-Depression
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Mood Disorders-Depression

• Canadian depression rates

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Mood Disorders- Suicide
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Mood Disorders-Bipolar

• PET scans show that brain energy consumption
  rises falls with emotional switches

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Mood Disorders-Depression

• Altering any one component of the
  chemistry-cognition-mood circuit can alter the
  others

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Mood Disorders-Depression

• The vicious cycle of depression can be broken at
  any point

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Discuss with a neighbor

• What are the symptoms of
• Generalized anxiety disorder
• Panic disorder
• Phobias
• Major depression
• Bipolar disorder

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Dissociative Disorders

• Dissociative Disorders
• conscious awareness becomes separated
  (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts,
  and feelings
• Dissociative Identity Disorder
• rare dissociative disorder in which a person
  exhibits two or more distinct and alternating
  personalities
• formerly called multiple personality disorder

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Amnesia

• Unable to remember parts of life.

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Fugue

• Similar to Amnesia forgets entire life.
• Also physically detaches from home.
• Often found far from home.
• May move to new city and start a new identity.

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Depersonalization Disorder

• Feels detached from mind or body.
• Feels as those memories didnt happen to him/her.
• Experiences numbness / physical symptoms.
• May experience flashbacks, panic attacks, etc

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Schizophrenia

• Schizophrenia
• literal translation split mind
• a group of severe disorders characterized by
• disorganized and delusional thinking
• disturbed perceptions
• inappropriate emotions and actions

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Schizophrenia

• Delusions
• false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur,
  that may accompany psychotic disorders
• Hallucinations
• sensory experiences without sensory stimulation

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Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia
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Schizophrenia
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Personality Disorders

• Read the section on personality disorders in
  chapter 16
• Select 3 of the personality disorders and
  compare/contrast them.
• Use the three circle venn diagram.
• Explain why antisocial personality disorder is
  the most troubling of them. What sets it
  apart? How does biology and environment
  (nature/nurture) affect it?
• You may work with a partner (if you wish)