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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Studies biological - behavioural and social impacts on health and illness; Important finding: increased stress leads to higher likelihood of sickness - social support is associated with better health outcomes
Pick'S disease
Somatic delusion
Anorexia nervosa
Health psychology
2. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Schizophrenogenic mother
Borderline personality disorder
Tardive dyskinesia
Catalepsy (catatonia)
3. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Abuse
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Anorexia nervosa
4. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
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5. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
pyromania
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
6. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Panic attack
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
compulsion
7. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Parasomnias
Residual (schizophrenia)
Life event stress
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
8. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Trichotillomania
Delusional disorder
Agoraphobia
9. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
retrograde amnesia
Psychological Bulletin
10. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Mental retardation
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
pathological gambling
Schizophrenia (description)
11. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Elimination disorders
American Psychology Association (APA)
Parasomnias
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
12. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Kleptomania
Dysthymic disorder
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
DSM (axes)
13. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
Delusional disorder
Panic attack
Delirium
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
14. Irresistible impulse to steal
Kleptomania
Hypersomnia
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Shared psychotic disorder
15. A component of many different anxiety disorders - lasts for a discrete period of time often <10 min; overwhelming feelings of danger or need to escape - expressed as an intense fear of dying or 'going crazy'; accompanied by sweating - trembling - pou
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Panic attack
Antisocial
Tay-Sachs disease
16. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Avoidant personality disorder
Disorganized behaviour
Cretinism
Tay-Sachs disease
17. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Generalized anxiety disorder
Elimination disorders
anterograde amnesia
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
18. Psychology taken into community (community centres or schools) rather than individuals go to clinics and universities; emphasizes respect - recognizes logistics that keep needy people from seeking help
Community psychology
Schizophrenia (types)
Tardive dyskinesia
Alzheimer'S disease
19. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Stanley Hall
Confabulations
Erotomanic delusion
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
20. Treatment/prevention programs that recognize and tailor to cultural differences; therapists beginning to be trained in customs and norms of various cultures to minimize Eurocentric bias and assumptions
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Culturally competent interventions
Cretinism
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
21. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Primary prevention
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Insomnia
22. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Bipolar disorder
Specific phobia
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Manic symptoms
23. Perhaps use of neologisms
Histrionic personality disorder
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Martin Seligman
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
24. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Parkinson'S
Major depressive disorder
Residual (schizophrenia)
Cretinism
25. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
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26. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Bipolar disorder
Fromm and Reichamn
Insomnia
Grandiose delusion
27. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Agoraphobia
Disorganized behaviour
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
28. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Amphetamines
Agoraphobia
Shared psychotic disorder
Schizophrenia (types)
29. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Tic disorders
Abuse
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Panic disorder
30. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Major depressive disorder
Learning disorders
Panic disorder
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
31. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Antisocial
Paranoid personality disorder
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Manic symptoms
32. Index published by APA - found at most major libraries; montly compilation of 'nonevaluative summaries of the world'S literature in psychology'; in each issue - article abstracts arranged by topic; hardcopy version of PsycINFO
Psychological abstracts
Manic symptoms
anterograde amnesia
Histrionic personality disorder
33. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Tay-Sachs disease
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
dissociative Identity disorder
Abuse
34. Characterized by obsessions or compulsions that are time-consuming - distressing - and disruptive; typical obsessions might be about locking the door - or becoming contaminated; typical compulsions might be checking behaviour - counting - or hand was
Abuse
Borderline personality disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Social phobia
35. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Borderline personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
36. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Schizophrenia (description)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
37. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Developmental disorders
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Generalized anxiety disorder
Nightmare
38. Falling asleep uncontrollably during routine daily activity
Panic disorder
Sleep terror
Narcolepsy
Thomas Szasz
39. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Social phobia
Schizoaffective disorder
American Psychologist
dopamine
40. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Bipolar disorder
dopamine
Schizophrenia (types)
Erotomanic delusion
41. Learned helplessness
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Martin Seligman
Learning disorders
Flat affect
42. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; indicated by patterns of behaviour that violate rules - norms - or the rights of others
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Paranoid personality disorder
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
43. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Community psychology
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Panic attack
44. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Hypersomnia
45. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Cretinism
Tardive dyskinesia
Reactive depression
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
46. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Psychological abstracts
Dyssomnias
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
47. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Dementia
Health psychology
Insomnia
Specific phobia
48. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Dependence
Panic disorder
Dependent personality disorder
49. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
Schizoid personality disorder
Thomas Szasz
Shared psychotic disorder
retrograde amnesia
50. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Life event stress
pyromania
Antisocial
Catalepsy (catatonia)