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Unit 5 Cheat Sheet

One-page visual infographic summarizing every key concept in Mental and Physical Health.

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AP Psychology Unit 5: Mental and Physical Health cheat sheet — stress, psychological disorders, therapy, and biomedical treatments

Unit 5: Mental and Physical Health · AP Psychology

What’s covered in this cheat sheet

This infographic covers the core content of Unit 5: the fight-or-flight response; Selye's GAS (alarm, resistance, exhaustion); problem-focused vs. emotion-focused coping; tend-and-befriend; positive psychology; subjective well-being; the biopsychosocial model; diathesis-stress model; DSM-5-TR; anxiety disorders (GAD, panic, phobias); OCD; PTSD; depressive disorders; bipolar disorder; schizophrenia (positive and negative symptoms); dissociative and personality disorders; psychodynamic, humanistic, behavior, and cognitive-behavioral therapies; SSRIs; ECT; and the therapeutic alliance.