Abnormal Behavior
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Textbook Reading
Chapter 15: pages 537 - 571
XII. Abnormal Behavior (7–9%)
In this portion of the course, students examine the nature of common challenges to
adaptive functioning . This section emphasizes formal conventions that guide
psychologists’ judgments about diagnosis and problem severity .
AP students in psychology should be able to do the following:
• Describe contemporary and historical conceptions of what constitutes
psychological disorders .12 © 2013 The College Board. Visit the College Board on the Web: www.collegeboard.org.
• Recognize the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Association as the primary
reference for making diagnostic judgments .
• Discuss the major diagnostic categories, including anxiety and somatoform
disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia, organic disturbance, personality
disorders, and dissociative disorders, and their corresponding symptoms .
• Evaluate the strengths and limitations of various approaches to explaining
psychological disorders: medical model, psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive,
biological, and sociocultural .
• Identify the positive and negative consequences of diagnostic labels (e .g ., the
Rosenhan study) .
• Discuss the intersection between psychology and the legal system (e .g .,
confidentiality, insanity defense)
In this portion of the course, students examine the nature of common challenges to
adaptive functioning . This section emphasizes formal conventions that guide
psychologists’ judgments about diagnosis and problem severity .
AP students in psychology should be able to do the following:
• Describe contemporary and historical conceptions of what constitutes
psychological disorders .12 © 2013 The College Board. Visit the College Board on the Web: www.collegeboard.org.
• Recognize the use of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
(DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Association as the primary
reference for making diagnostic judgments .
• Discuss the major diagnostic categories, including anxiety and somatoform
disorders, mood disorders, schizophrenia, organic disturbance, personality
disorders, and dissociative disorders, and their corresponding symptoms .
• Evaluate the strengths and limitations of various approaches to explaining
psychological disorders: medical model, psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive,
biological, and sociocultural .
• Identify the positive and negative consequences of diagnostic labels (e .g ., the
Rosenhan study) .
• Discuss the intersection between psychology and the legal system (e .g .,
confidentiality, insanity defense)