Final Study Guide

Psychoanalytic approach to personality

Freud’s theory of psychosexual development

Id, ego, superego, fixation, stages of development (oral, anal, phallic, latency, genital); defense mechanisms
(repression, regression, projection, sublimation, displacement)

Test measures – validity, reliability

Projective and self-report measures of personality

Big Five personality dimensions

“G” and “S” factors of intelligence

Intelligence quotient

Environment vs. Genetics – effects on personality

The three D’s as an indicator of mental illness

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM)

Symptoms of mood disorders (depression and bipolar)

Role of neurotransmitters in depression

Heritability of bipolar disorder

What is schizophrenia?

Symptoms of schizophrenia

Types of schizophrenia

Heritability of schizophrenia

Neurotransmitters involved in schizophrenia

Anxiety disorders (GAD, Panic, Phobias)

Difference between phobic disorder and generalized anxiety disorder

Preparedness theory as an explanation for certain phobias

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Most common compulsions

Dissociative disorders (Dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, DID)

Personality disorders (Dramatic cluster)

Gender difference in diagnosis