PSYC 3140 Test 2 Study Guide
Chapter 5:
Endocrine system and hormones
Sympathetic versus parasympathetic nervous system and stressors
Differentiate between acute stress disorder and PTSD and be able to apply to examples
Resiliency
Dissociative Fugue versus Amnesia
Within normal limits (no diagnosis)
Psychodynamic explanation of dissociative disorders
Factors that increase the likelihood of stress disorders
Dissociative disorder criteria and relationship between alters
State dependent learning
Depersonalization vs. derealizaton
Chapter 6:
Types of symptoms of depression (cognitive, emotional, motivational, physical)
Criteria for Bipolar I disorder, Bipolar II disorder, Cyclothymia (differentiate and apply to
examples)
Peripartum (postpartum) depression
Brain stimulation for treatment resistant depression (e.g., ECT, TMS, vagus nerve stimulation,
etc.)
Theories of depression and bipolar disorder (understand how they view the disorders and
which are thought to be most influential)
Treatments for depression and bipolar disorder
Chapter 7:
Intentional death vs. subintentional death vs. NSSI
Shneidman’s categories of intentional death (differentiate and apply to examples)
Theories of suicide (e.g., psychodynamic, sociocultural, interpersonal, biological)
Durkheim’s suicide categories (e.g., egoistic, altruistic, anomic)
Rates by gender and race/ethnicity
Risk factors and triggers for suicide
Social contagion (modeling)
Chapter 9:
Criteria for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder (and apply each to
case examples)
Muscle dysmorphia
Overlaps between eating disorders and other disorders (e.g., OCD, depression, etc.)
Set-point theory
Causes of eating disorders (e.g., cognitive-behavioral, biological, family, societal, multicultural)
Treatments for eating disorders
Chapter 5:
Endocrine system and hormones
Sympathetic versus parasympathetic nervous system and stressors
Differentiate between acute stress disorder and PTSD and be able to apply to examples
Resiliency
Dissociative Fugue versus Amnesia
Within normal limits (no diagnosis)
Psychodynamic explanation of dissociative disorders
Factors that increase the likelihood of stress disorders
Dissociative disorder criteria and relationship between alters
State dependent learning
Depersonalization vs. derealizaton
Chapter 6:
Types of symptoms of depression (cognitive, emotional, motivational, physical)
Criteria for Bipolar I disorder, Bipolar II disorder, Cyclothymia (differentiate and apply to
examples)
Peripartum (postpartum) depression
Brain stimulation for treatment resistant depression (e.g., ECT, TMS, vagus nerve stimulation,
etc.)
Theories of depression and bipolar disorder (understand how they view the disorders and
which are thought to be most influential)
Treatments for depression and bipolar disorder
Chapter 7:
Intentional death vs. subintentional death vs. NSSI
Shneidman’s categories of intentional death (differentiate and apply to examples)
Theories of suicide (e.g., psychodynamic, sociocultural, interpersonal, biological)
Durkheim’s suicide categories (e.g., egoistic, altruistic, anomic)
Rates by gender and race/ethnicity
Risk factors and triggers for suicide
Social contagion (modeling)
Chapter 9:
Criteria for anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder (and apply each to
case examples)
Muscle dysmorphia
Overlaps between eating disorders and other disorders (e.g., OCD, depression, etc.)
Set-point theory
Causes of eating disorders (e.g., cognitive-behavioral, biological, family, societal, multicultural)
Treatments for eating disorders
