Lecture Notes for Exam One

Notes for Test One
Chapters 10, 12, 1 and 4


Compared to women, men are more likely to be diagnosed as suffering from an anti-social personality disorder. (sociopath gets confused with antisocial)
Fugue state: a case of amnesia in which the person literally flees from the problems they have been facing.
Research on schizophrenia strongly suggests that there is a genetic predisposition to schizophrenia.
The placebo effect is illustrated by a person who’s physical symptoms disappear after taking an inert substance or pill.
A behavior therapist is concerned with conditions in the environment that maintain abnormal behavior.
In contrast to psychoanalysis, humanistic psychologists emphasize constant determinacy of behavior. (Freud says unconscious, humanistic state aware)
Tranquilizers are most effective when they are used in conjunction with other therapeutic treatments.
The attitude of the therapist in client centered therapy is not directive.
Insanity is most clearly characterized by an inability to appreciated the wrongfulness of ones own destructive actions.
A conversion disorder is most likely to be characterized by specific physical symptoms that have no apparent physiological basis.
Disassociative disorders are most likely to be characterized by disruptions in conscious awareness and sense of identity.