AP Psych: Psychological Disorders Test

A syndrome marked by a clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior

• Psychological disorder

• Bipolar disorder

• Illness anxiety disorder

• Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)

Psychiatrists and psychologists label behavior as disordered when it is (CHOOSE 3 ANSWERS)

• Maladapative

• Distressful

• Dysfunctional

• Persistent

• Obsessive

The concept that diseases, in this case psychological disorders, have physical causes that can be diagnosed, treated and in most cases, cured

• Medical model

• DSM-5

Which TWO psychological disorders occur worldwide

• Major depressive disorder

• Schizophrenia

• Anorexia nervosa

• Bulimia nervosa

The idea that individual characteristics combine with environmental stressors to increase or decrease the likelihood of developing a psychological disorder

• Stress-vulnerability model (diathesis-stress model)

• Biopsychosocial approach

• Epigenetics

The study of environmental influences on gene expression that occur without a DNA change

• Epigenetics

• Stress-vulnerability model (diathesis-stress model)

• Biopsychosocial approach

The idea that in one environment a gene will be expressed, but in another it may lie dormant----this being the difference between whether one develops a disorder or does not develop a disorder----is best explained by:

• Epigenetics

• Biopsychosocial approach

Evolution, individual genes, brain structure and chemistry, etc, best explain the (...) of the biopsychosocial approach

• Biological influences

• Social-cultural influences

• Psychological influences

Stress, trauma, learned helplessness, etc, best explain the (...) of the biopsychosocial approach

• Psychological influences

• Biological influences

• Social-cultural influences

Roles, expectations, definitions of normality and disorder, etc, best explain the (...) of the biopsychosocial approach

• Social-cultural influences

• Biological influences

• Psychological influences