AP Psych DMA

What are the symptoms of antisocial personality disorder?

Delusions of persecution are common in which form of schizophrenia?

Please turn in FRQ # 3

Today’s Agenda

DMA/turn in FRQ #3Vote on t-shirt designsGrade FRQ #1&2Review sessionChapter 16

◦Somatoform disorders◦Case studies

Homework Chap. 16 & 17 Test – Monday, Mar. 19th

Chap. 16 & 17 notes due Monday, Mar. 19th

T-Shirt Design Voting

Everyone needs 3 stars

Look at all the designs

Put a star on the 3 designs you want to vote for.

FRQ Grading

Grab your FRQ & a scoring guideSwap with a neighborBE BRUTAL!!! when gradingGive the scoring guide & drafts back.

Chap. 16 & 17 Review Session

Monday, March 19th 7:00 AMWheeler’s classroom

Disorders – a little review…

Anxiety◦Generalized Anxiety◦OCD◦Panic

Mood◦Major Depression◦Bipolar

Dissociative ◦Dissociative Identity (DID)◦Amnesia◦Fugue

Dissociative Disorders

Depersonalization Disorder

Feels detached from mind or body.◦Feels as those memories didn’t happen to

him/her.Experiences numbness / physical

symptoms.May experience flashbacks, panic attacks,

etc…

SchizophreniaSchizophrenia “split mind” a group of severe disorders characterized by:disorganized & delusional thinkingdisturbed perceptionsinappropriate emotions & actions

Schizophrenia Delusions

false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders

Hallucinationssensory experiences without sensory stimulation

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia

Schizophrenia

Somatoform Disorders

General Characteristics

Person experiences a physical symptoms (ex. pain) or a medical disorder.◦No medical condition is present◦Often discovered in a medical setting◦Psychological stress/trauma translates into a

physical problem.

Conversion Disorder

Psychological trauma is changed into a symbolic physical dysfunction.◦Example: witness a horrible accident and then

you go blind.

Pain Disorder

Feel pain.Pain causes distressPsychological factors are judged to have

played an important role in the onset, severity, etc… of the pain.

Hypochondrias

Feeling excessive concern about one’s health.

Exaggerates the seriousness of physical complaints.

Research medical issuesDiscuss medical problems (seek attention)May have been given attention when

he/she was young and ill.

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Become obsessively focused on one part of the body.◦Usually the face.

Feel as though body part is ugly, fat, unattractive…

Compare body part to others (pictures, in person…).◦Ex. a 14 year-old girl begins obsessing about the

shape of her eyes (complains about them, spends considerable amount of time looking at them, compares them to other people’s…)

Personality Disorders1. Read the section on personality disorders in

chapter 16

2. Select 3 of the personality disorders and compare/contrast them.

◦ Use the three circle venn diagram.

3. Explain why antisocial personality disorder is the “most troubling” of them. What sets it apart? How does biology and environment (nature/nurture) affect it?

4. You may work with a partner (if you wish)

Turn in your answers when you are done.

Case Studies