March 17 - AP Psychology

March 17 - AP Psychology

Why do people wear shamrocks on St. Patrick's Day?

• Real rocks are too heavy.

What kind of spells do leprechauns use? 

• Lucky Charms!

The Real St. Patrick Was Born in Britain

Much of what is known about St. Patrick's life has been interwoven with folklore and legend. Historians generally believe that St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland, was born in Britain (not Ireland) near the end of the 4th century. At age 16 he was kidnapped by Irish raiders and sold as a slave to a Celtic priest in Northern Ireland. After toiling for six years as a shepherd, he escaped back to Britain. He eventually returned to Ireland as a Christian missionary.

Corned Beef and Cabbage Was an American Innovation

The meal that became a St. Patrick’s Day staple across the country—corned beef and cabbage—was an American innovation. While ham and cabbage were eaten in Ireland, corned beef offered a cheaper substitute for impoverished immigrants. Irish-Americans living in the slums of lower Manhattan in the late 19th century and early 20th, purchased leftover corned beef from ships returning from the tea trade in China. The Irish would boil the beef three times—the last time with cabbage—to remove some of the brine

Multiple Choice

Scientific study of the nature of disease and its causes, processes, development, and consequences

• etiology

• psychopathology

• psychology

• psychiatry

Multiple Choice

The applied field of psychology that seeks to assess, understand and treat psychological conditions in clinical practice

• psychotherapy

• counseling psychology

• behavioral psychology

• clinical psychology

Multiple Choice

This Axis (category) in the DSM 5 contains all of the major disorders including anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, substance abuse, and organic mental disorders.

• axis I

• axis II

• axis III

• axis IV

• axis V

Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders 5

• classifies psychological disorders by their symptoms

• does not include any discussion of the causes (also called etiology) or treatments of the various disorders, because adherents to each of the psychological perspectives disagree

Anxiety Disorders

Anxiety is a feeling of impending doom or disaster from a specific or unknown source that is characterized by mood symptoms of tension, agitation, and apprehension; bodily symptoms of sweating, muscular tension, and increased heart rate and blood pressure; as well as cognitive symptoms of worry, rumination, and distractibility. Anxiety disorders include panic disorder, generalized anxiety disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder.

Open Ended

Look up phobias A-Z. What is one of the craziest phobias on that list? What is it a phobia of?

Mood Disorders

• Mood disorders are psychological disorders characterized by a primary disturbance in affect or mood that colors the individual’s entire emotional state. This disrupts the person’s normal ability to function in daily life. Types of mood disorders are unipolar (depressive, major depressive), Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) and bipolar (manic-depressive) disorders.

• Because it occurs so often, depression has been called the “common cold of psychological disorders.”