Abnormal Psych
Social Psych
Scenarios
Abnormal Psych Pt. 2
Random
100

This textbook classifies classifies and diagnoses all psychological disorders.

DSM V

100

You ask for something knowing that you will be rejected, only to follow up with a smaller request (that you really wanted)

Door-in-the face

100

Carrie loves anime cartoons, figures and cards and is actively engaged in the online anime community.  She often spends hours each day engaged in some type of anime activity.  Most of her friends are involved in anime and she often talks of this topic at lunch and during her free periods at school.

No Disorder

100

Name the Disorder:

This person...Sets things on fire, run aways, constantly fights, argumentative, maybe in jail.

Conduct Disorder

100

Team 2 Gets 500 Points

OMG

200

Old People get this. Get lost, memory loss, confusion

Alzheimer's

200

This psychologist determined that people will follow authority even if it's violent, dangerous, or deadly

Milagram

200

Name the Diagnosis:

     Shana sometimes hears voices in her head that narrate her life.  She cannot determine when they will be present or when they will stop.  She cannot distinguish these voices from her internal thought processes or sometimes even external conversations.

Schizophrenia

200

Name the 4 reasons in which abnormal behavior could be considered normal...

Culture

Time Period

Individual Uniqueness

Environment

200

You must do 10 Pushups to earn 200 points.

Begin.

300

Grinding teeth at night due to anxiety

Bruxism

300

This psychologist coined the term, 'classical conditioning'

Pavlov

300

Which term best describes the following scenario:  Melissa wants to save her money for college. Each time she receives a paycheck however she spends all of the money on new clothes or music. She feels badly about her lack of contribution to her college fund and she promises herself that in the future she will do a better job of saving.

Cognitive Dissonance

300

Pulling out own hair

Trichotillomania

300

SPEAK FOR A WHOLE MINUTE ABOUT THE STANFORD PRISON EXPERIMENT

YAY

400

Describe each category of a multi-axial Diagnosis

1. AXIS 1 - MENTAL HEALTH / DRUG USAGE

2. AXIS 2 - PERSONALITY DISORDERS

3. AXIS 3 - PHYSICAL ISSUES

4. AXIS 4 - SOCIAL ISSUES

5. GAF SCORE

400

an oversimplified and often biased belief about a particular group of people or things.

Stereotype

400

Provide an example of classical conditioning.

do it!

400


  • Fear of social situations


Agoraphobia

400

Everyone at your group needs to add one of my songs to a playlist.

:D

500

What are the 6 categories of personality disorders (Axis II)

Axis II:  PERSONALITY DISORDERS

  1. Borderline Personality Disorder

  2. Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder

  3. Avoidant Personality Disorder

  4. Schizotypal Personality Disorder

  5. Antisocial Personality Disorder

  6. Narcissistic Personality Disorder

500

List the 6 Reasons why people make friends

  1. Proximity

  2. Similarities

  3. Complementarity (Opposites Attract)

  4. Approval

  5. Rewards-Based: Stimulation Value - Utility - Ego Support

  6. Attraction

500

Explain a condition in which this would be normal:

Touching a dead body

Emergency Room / 1st Responder / Morgue

500

Child abuse - forces child to “have an illness” Gypsy Rose — CONTROL ISSUE


Munchausen by Proxy


500

Give Mr. Lombardo $5 for these points

Thank you.

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