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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
Schizotypal personality disorder
Delusional disorder
Schizophrenia (onset)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
2. Persistent thoughts
Obsession
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Fugue
anterograde amnesia
3. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; indicated by patterns of behaviour that violate rules - norms - or the rights of others
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Grandiose delusion
4. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Negative symptoms
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Schizophrenia (onset)
5. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Schizotypal personality disorder
Confabulations
Dependent personality disorder
6. Exposure to trauma that results in decreased ability to function and recurrent thoughts and anxiety about the incident; often linked to war veterans or victims of violence
Fromm and Reichamn
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
7. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Mental retardation
Social phobia
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
8. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Elimination disorders
Anorexia nervosa
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
9. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
10. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
DSM (description & history)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Psychological abstracts
Avoidant personality disorder
11. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
12. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.
DSM (axes)
Dyssomnias
Delusions
Histrionic personality disorder
13. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Schizophrenogenic mother
dissociative Identity disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
14. Imitating gestures of others
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Neuroleptic drugs
PsycINFO database
15. 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
Psychological abstracts
Trichotillomania
American Psychology Association (APA)
Culturally competent interventions
16. Inappropriate dress - agitation - shouting
Disorganized behaviour
dissociative Identity disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
17. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Primary prevention
Manic symptoms
Elimination disorders
18. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Erotomanic delusion
Confabulations
Negative symptoms
Delirium
19. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Shared psychotic disorder
Hypersomnia
Generalized anxiety disorder
20. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Major depressive disorder
Psychological Bulletin
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
21. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Shared psychotic disorder
Down syndrome
Fromm and Reichamn
Phobia
22. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
Delirium
dissociative Identity disorder
Pick'S disease
Disorganized behaviour
23. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Korsakoff'S syndrome
pyromania
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Parasomnias
24. Cognitive problems (memory - spatial tasks - or language) that result from a medical condition; may be result of Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S - Huntington'S - or Pick'S disease
Dementia
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Borderline personality disorder
Process schizophrenia
25. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Paranoid personality disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder
Panic disorder
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
26. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Dependent personality disorder
Flat affect
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
27. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
American Psychologist
Phobia
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Delirium
28. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Alzheimer'S disease
Schizoid personality disorder
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
29. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Wernicke'S syndrome
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Reactive schizophrenia
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
30. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Schizoid personality disorder
Paranoid personality disorder
Tic disorders
31. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Reactive schizophrenia
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Specific phobia
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
32. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Tardive dyskinesia
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Histrionic personality disorder
Thomas Szasz
33. Parroting
Process schizophrenia
Dependent personality disorder
Echolalia (catatonia)
Generalized anxiety disorder
34. 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
DSM (axes)
Bipolar disorder
Paranoid personality disorder
35. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Tic disorders
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Generalized anxiety disorder
36. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
Process schizophrenia
DSM (axes)
Psychological Bulletin
Cretinism
37. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Korsakoff'S syndrome
American Psychologist
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
38. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal
Hypersomnia
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Shared psychotic disorder
39. Irresistble impulse to gamble
pathological gambling
Grandiose delusion
Dementia
Thomas Szasz
40. Absence of appropriate emotion
pathological gambling
Shared psychotic disorder
Flat affect
retrograde amnesia
41. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Stanley Hall
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
42. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Tay-Sachs disease
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Insomnia
Neuroleptic drugs
43. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Tic disorders
Health psychology
44. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Dementia
45. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Manic symptoms
Sleep terror
Reactive depression
Histrionic personality disorder
46. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Trichotillomania
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Pick'S disease
47. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Disorganized behaviour
dopamine
Neuroleptic drugs
48. Indicated by some combination of: continued use despite substance-related problems; need for increased amount; desire but inability to stop use; withdrawal; lessening of outside interests; much time getting - using - or recovering from substance
Schizophrenia (types)
Schizoid personality disorder
Dependence
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
49. Fear of a situation that might arise panic symptoms - and escape would be difficult; usually fear and avoidance of being outside the home or in crowds
pathological gambling
Tardive dyskinesia
Agoraphobia
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
50. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Klinefelter'S syndrome
diathesis-stress theory
anterograde amnesia
Schizoaffective disorder