Chapter Objectives

Upon completing this chapter, you will be able to:

1. Define abnormal behavior and distinguish between the continuity hypothesis and the discontinuity hypothesis.

2. Describe the different ways abnormal behavior has been viewed throughout history, including supernatural theories, biological theories, and psychological theories.

3. Define insanity and describe its different legal meanings.

4. Distinguish among specific phobia, social phobia, and agoraphobia.

5. Distinguish between generalized anxiety disorder and panic anxiety disorder.

6. Discuss the causes and effects of posttraumatic stress disorder.

7. Distinguish between obsessions and compulsions.

8. Identify the following somatoform disorders: somatization disorders, hypochondriasis, conversion disorders, and pain disorders.

9. Distinguish between depersonalization, dissociative amnesia, and dissociative fugue.

10. Define dissociative identity disorder and discuss the controversies surrounding its diagnosis.

11. Identify the characteristics of mood disorders including major depression and bipolar affective disorder.

12. Discuss the importance of cognitive factors in depression and describe the results of research into postpartum depression.

13. Identify the three types of problems that characterize schizophrenia.

14. Distinguish among the following types of schizophrenia: paranoid schizophrenia, disorganized schizophrenia, and catatonic schizophrenia, and undifferentiated schizophrenia.

15. Identify the characteristics of delusional disorder and describe how it differs from schizophrenia.

16. Identify the characteristics of the personality disorders, including schizoid personality disorder and antisocial personality disorder.

17. (From the Application section) Discuss the civil liberty and psychological implications of homelessness and physician-assisted suicide.

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