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Question Answered step-by-step 1. Identify and describe the most commonly used system for… 1. Identify and describe the most commonly used system for classifying psychological disorders. Be specific and cite your resources.2. What is the broad classification of psychological disorders characterized by anxiety, fear, and self-defeating behavior?3. Describe the difference between a generalized anxiety disorder and a panic attack.4. Identify the term used for an irrational fear and describe its characteristics.5. A person constantly thinks that he is going to die from contamination from germs and washes his hands twenty times per day. Is this a neurosis, a delusion, an obsession-compulsion, or schizophrenia? Explain your answer.6. Identify and describe the condition of a person who wakes up one morning to find himself or herself blind. Explain your answer.7. What is the most common psychological disorder characterized by irritability, sadness, self-pity, and a feeling of hopelessness is?8. Identify and describe symptoms of psychosis. Be specific.9. Identify and explain the type of psychosis that means literally, split mind, and is the most common severe psychological disorder.10. Psychotics have elaborate yet irrational belief systems. What are these called? Explain your answer.11. What is the most common form of hallucination found in psychotic disorders? Provide an example.12. Carmen D. is hospitalized in a mental institution where he sits in one position for days, is unresponsive, and often rocks back and forth. Identify this disorder and explain your answer.13. Identify the disorder that is present when individuals are violent, manipulative, distrustful, distant, and insincere and who show no conscience regarding how they act. Explain your answer.14. Identify some causes of psychological disturbances.15. Explain why is it can be difficult to tell the difference between right and wrong and defining normal and abnormal. Name and describe the three ways to define “normal” and “abnormal.”16. Identify symptoms that may indicate a psychological disorder. Would a person necessarily exhibit all of these symptoms? explain17. Identify the disorder of a person who relives stressful wartime events long after they occur.18. Identify the disorder of a person who thinks they are sick when they are not.19. What is the most common disorder suffered by people who are living in psychiatric facilities are occupied by?20. How does the term “insanity” differ from psychological terms for behavioral problems?21. How is neurosis as a psychological disorder different from psychosis?22. Provide a brief description of each of the following terms:Anxiety Disorder PhobiaPost-Traumatic Stress DisorderObsessionCompulsionHypochondriaConversion DisorderAmnesiaFugue StateMultiple PersonalityDepressionManiaBipolar Disorder Schizophrenia DelusionalCatatonic SchizophreniaHebephrenic SchizophreniaPsychopathSociopath  1. What relation exists between heredity and environment when discussing human development?2. What are the five stages of development according to Freud? Describe each.3. How does Erik Erikson view personality development?4. What conclusions were reached by Harry Harlow in his research with Rhesus monkeys?For #5-20, identify the scientist(s) most closely associated with the following idea5. Inherited traits are expressed as physical and behavioral characteristics.6. The unfolding of abilities over the years.7. Unconscious attraction of male child for his mother.8. Saw human development as a lifelong process of resolving social conflicts.9. Conducted experiments studying attachment in Rhesus monkeys.10. The process of acquiring behaviors of others.11. Appropriate male-female behavior.12. Studied cognitive development in children.13. A child’s way or plan for understanding the world.14. Taking in the world into one’s schema in order to understand it.15. Changing one’s schema to fit new situations.16. The first stage of cognitive development; basically reflex.17. Studied moral reasoning in children.18. A girl’s unconscious attraction for her father.19. Studies animal behavior and links it to human behavior.20. Studied imprinting.   Part A: Listed below are the effects of observation on research. Match the bias of the effect with the research situation described.Observation Bias:A. Researcher’s own feelingsB. Inadequate research methodsC. Researcher’s closeness to subjectsD. Researcher’s presence creates “good subjects”Research Situations:1. Children in a day care center all behave in a well-mannered way when they realize they are being watched.2. A researcher interviews students in a drop-out prevention class in order to ask questions about effective teaching styles.3. A racially biased researcher observes students in a predominantly black urban school.4. A psychologist studies his own children as the basis for his research.5. List 4 ways that a researcher can affect his own research and provide examples to illustrate your choices. Use examples other than those in the reading.Part B:  describe the meaning of the following terms and provide an example for each one.6. sample7. random sample8. naturalistic9. observation data10. observer effect11. biasPart C: Identify bias in a research project.12. Conduct internet research and identify bias in a research project. Explain the project, the possible bias or biases and how to avoid bias. Be sure to provide the url (links) to the web sites you cited. You must provide a minimum of two paragraphs of few sentences each.    Directions: Answer each of the following questions.1. What practical purposes do personality theories serve?2. According to Freud, what has the greatest influence on one’s personality? What evidence exists that this influence really exists?3. According to Freud, what are the three parts of the human personality? What role does each play?4. What are defense mechanisms? Give an example of each of the following defense mechanisms:a. regressionb. displacementc. projectiond. repression5. What is the ‘collective unconscious’ as discussed by Carl Jung? What evidence exists that we have a collective unconscious?6. According to Jung, what are ‘polarities’ of personality? 7. Who is the father of humanism? How does humanism differ from other personality theories?8. What is self actualization? Who is most closely associated with that theory?9. Which of these theories intrigue you the most? Explain your answer.10. Conduct internet research and identify any other theories of personality research that interests you. Write a summary of the important concepts of that theory and who the major researchers are in that area. Your summary should be at least three paragraphs of few sentences each. Wikipedia is a good starting point, but you must use other sources besides Wikipedia. Be sure to provide the url of the web pages you cite.  Directions:  research-based essay on a psychology topic of interest to you that relates to this course. This essay must be a minimum length of 600-700 words (approximately 3-4 pages) and contain the resources you used in your research. You must provide at least three cited resources. Cited resources must be published within the last 6 years. You may, of course, provide your opinion on your topic but your statements/opinions must be supported by research. Your essay must be written in proper standard English. Avoid all types of ‘text messaging’ writing style. Here are some topics that might spark your interest. You do not have to choose a topic from this list – you may choose a topic of your choice as long as it relates to the subject of psychology.Psychology: Historical Foundations and Modern PerspectivesStates of Consciousness (an example is Sleep and Sleep Disorders)Developmental Processes: Cognitive and Physical Changes over TimeSensation and PerceptionLearning: Associative, Operant, Insight and ObservationalMemory: Tasks/Stages/KindsCognition and IntelligenceEmotion and MotivationHealth and Stress: Intervention and PreventionPersonality: The Essence of our NaturePsychological Disorders and TherapiesSocial Influence: The Power of Social Persuasion Social Science Psychology PSYCHOLOGY 609 Share QuestionEmailCopy link Comments (0)