AP Psych Exam - Abnormal Psychology

When prior experiences have caused a person to view him/herself as unable to control the future

• Learned Helplessness

• Schizophrenic Disorders

• Delusion of Persecution

• Delusion of Grandeur

Disordered, distorted thinking often demonstrated through delusions and/or hallucinations.

• Learned Helplessness

• Histrionic Personality Disorder

• Schizophrenic Disorders

• OCD

Little regard for feelings of others. View the world as hostile, must look out for themselves

• Schizophrenia

• Learned Helplessness

• Antisocial Personality Disorder

• Tardive Dyskinesia

Odd uses of language, make up own words, string together series of nonsense words that rhyme.

• Disorganized Schizophrenia

• Undifferentiated Schizophrenia

• Paranoid Schizophrenia

• Catatonic Schizophrenia

Delusions of Persecutions, thinking someone is trying to hurt them or are out to get them

• Disorganized Schizophrenia

• Paranoid Schizophrenia

• Undifferentiated Schizophrenia

• Catatonic Schizophrenia

Exhibit disordered thinking but no symptoms of other types of schizophrenia

• Disorganized Schizophrenia

• Undifferentiated Schizophrenia

• Paranoid Schizophrenia

• Catatonic Schizophrenia

Engage in odd movements, remain motionless in strange postures, move jerkily and quickly

• Disorganized Schizophrenia

• Undifferentiated Schizophrenia

• Paranoid Schizophrenia

• Catatonic Schizophrenia

A characteristic of catatonic schizophrenia

• Waxy flexibility

• dopamine hypothesis

• delusion of personality

• delusion of grandeur

States that high levels of dopamine seem to be associated with schizophrenia

• Roxen Study

• Dopamine Hypothesis

• Milgram Study

• Allsport Study

Belief that people are out to get them

• Delusion of Grandeur

• Delusion of Silence

• Delusion of Personality

• Delusion of Persecution