Thursday, December 18, 2014
12/16 Anxiety Disorders
Anxiety Disorders Ch. 16 S2
1. Where do anxiety disorders rank in commonality for Americans?
Define the Following:
2. anxiety 3. phobia 4. panic disorder 5. OCD 6. PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
7. What are two theories about why people are anxious?
8. Name and define a couple of different phobias from the list on p. 457.
9. What are symptoms of panic attacks/panic disorder?
10. When does being conscientious cross the line to OCD?
11. Why do some people develop PTSD and others not? What are some of the symptoms?
1. Where do anxiety disorders rank in commonality for Americans?
Define the Following:
2. anxiety 3. phobia 4. panic disorder 5. OCD 6. PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder)
7. What are two theories about why people are anxious?
8. Name and define a couple of different phobias from the list on p. 457.
9. What are symptoms of panic attacks/panic disorder?
10. When does being conscientious cross the line to OCD?
11. Why do some people develop PTSD and others not? What are some of the symptoms?
12/15 Abnormal Anxiety
Normal or abnormal--How do psychologists decide?
What do Psychologists use for diagnosis of disorders?
What do Psychologists use for diagnosis of disorders?
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
12/10 Personality Internet Activity
Click on the Personality Internet Activity --the last one on the All Assignments Links.
Follow the instructions on the link for #1-6. Answers may be turned in with a hard copy in class or via email due on 12/11.
Follow the instructions on the link for #1-6. Answers may be turned in with a hard copy in class or via email due on 12/11.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
12/9 Personality Testing
Finish Trait Theory
Personality Testing: Ch. 13 S4
Ch.
13 S4
Personality Testing: Ch. 13 S4
Personality Testing:
- In Exploring Psychology on p. 363, explain what each of the four humors were, what they corresponded to, and what they meant.
- What are personality tests?
- What is the difference between an objective test and a projective test for the study of personality?
- The MMPI was first developed in the 1930s by psychologists to help diagnose psychological disorders. What are the reasons for revisions? What does the MMPI claim to discover?
- Why do psychologists believe that the MMPI should be followed up with interviews?
- What is the CPI? Why is it used more than the MMPI by employers screening potential employees?
- What is the MBTI? What are the 4 different scales on the MBTI? Explain what each scale does?
- What is the Rorschach Inkblot Test? What are some of the systems for scoring the test and how do they work?
- What is the TAT? How does it work and how is it scored?
- On page 368 and the Approaches to reducing test anxiety: after reading all of the approaches, which approach do you agree with the most? What type of psychological approach does it represent?
We are in the library on Wednesday doing personality testing using the personality Internet Activity:--Due on Thursday
Friday, December 5, 2014
12/5 Behaviorist and Humanist Theories
Bandura and Social Learning Theory
Humanists
Humanism and Theories of Personality
p. 391-397
1.What is humanistic psychology? How is it a rebellion to psychoanalysis and behaviorism?
2.What is self-actualization?
3.Who was Abraham Maslow?
4.Using pg. 327, draw Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Pyramid and label it.
5.What are six things that self-actualized individuals do?
6.How do people become self-actualized?
7.Who was Carl Rogers?
8.What did Rogers believe that many people suffer from?
9.According to Rogers, what is the self?
10.What is positive regard?
11.What are conditions of worth?
12.According to Rogers, how do people cope with conditions of worth?
13.What is the importance of unconditional positive regard?
14.What does it mean to be fully functioning?
15.What do critics argue about humanistic theories of personality?
Humanists
Humanism and Theories of Personality
p. 391-397
1.What is humanistic psychology? How is it a rebellion to psychoanalysis and behaviorism?
2.What is self-actualization?
3.Who was Abraham Maslow?
4.Using pg. 327, draw Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Pyramid and label it.
5.What are six things that self-actualized individuals do?
6.How do people become self-actualized?
7.Who was Carl Rogers?
8.What did Rogers believe that many people suffer from?
9.According to Rogers, what is the self?
10.What is positive regard?
11.What are conditions of worth?
12.According to Rogers, how do people cope with conditions of worth?
13.What is the importance of unconditional positive regard?
14.What does it mean to be fully functioning?
15.What do critics argue about humanistic theories of personality?
12/1 Intro to Personality Study
Freud and Psychoanalytic Theory of Personality:
Focus on the main tenets of the theory
Focus on the main tenets of the theory
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