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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger
Fugue
Phobia
Obsession
Abuse
2. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Bulimia nervosa
Reactive depression
Flat affect
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
3. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Bipolar disorder
Shared psychotic disorder
Nightmare
Generalized anxiety disorder
4. Schizophrenogenic mother
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Fromm and Reichamn
Stanley Hall
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
5. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Manic symptoms
Erotomanic delusion
Antisocial
Elimination disorders
6. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Tay-Sachs disease
Elimination disorders
Delusional disorder
7. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
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8. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Phobia
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Parasomnias
Delusions
9. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Kleptomania
10. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Life event stress
Hypochondriasis
Hypersomnia
Martin Seligman
11. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Schizophrenia (types)
Learning disorders
Fugue
12. Irresistble impulse to gamble
pathological gambling
Grandiose delusion
Histrionic personality disorder
dissociative Identity disorder
13. 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
Health psychology
Schizotypal personality disorder
American Psychology Association (APA)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
14. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Primary prevention
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Tardive dyskinesia
Panic disorder
15. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
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16. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Culturally competent interventions
Insomnia
17. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Parkinson'S
18. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Psychological abstracts
Reactive schizophrenia
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Schizophrenogenic mother
19. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Primary prevention
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Residual (schizophrenia)
Bipolar disorder
20. 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)
American Psychologist
Confabulations
David Rosenhan
21. From vitamin B deficiency - loss of memory and orientation - often make up confabulations - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
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22. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
DSM (description & history)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Generalized anxiety disorder
23. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Elimination disorders
Life event stress
Pick'S disease
Wernicke'S syndrome
24. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Schizotypal personality disorder
Confabulations
Negative symptoms
Hypersomnia
25. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Down syndrome
Histrionic personality disorder
Negative symptoms
Insomnia
26. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Anorexia nervosa
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
27. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Dementia
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Bulimia nervosa
Tic disorders
28. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Schizophrenia (etiology)
American Psychologist
Primary prevention
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
29. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
compulsion
Trichotillomania
Bipolar disorder
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
30. One has special talent or status
Grandiose delusion
Delusional disorder
Major depressive disorder
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
31. Studied effect of diagnostic labels on perception of behaviour; experiment of normal pseudopatients feigned disorders - once in hospital - individuals acted normally - but behaviours construed as fitting the diagnosis anyway
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
David Rosenhan
32. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Specific phobia
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Phobia
33. 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
Amnesia
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Dyssomnias
Obsession
34. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
anterograde amnesia
Manic symptoms
Narcolepsy
Cretinism
35. Persistent thoughts
Tic disorders
Obsession
Amphetamines
Life event stress
36. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Major depressive disorder
Sleep terror
Martin Seligman
37. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Amphetamines
Delusional disorder
Insomnia
38. 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
Agoraphobia
Wernicke'S syndrome
Reactive depression
Psychological Bulletin
39. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Bipolar disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
American Psychologist
Reactive depression
40. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
American Psychologist
Shared psychotic disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
diathesis-stress theory
41. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Negative symptoms
Narcolepsy
Social phobia
Klinefelter'S syndrome
42. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
Abuse
Schizophrenia (onset)
Stanley Hall
Echopraxia (catatonia)
43. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Alzheimer'S disease
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Huntington'S disease
compulsion
44. 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
Reactive depression
Community psychology
Delusional disorder
Martin Seligman
45. Excessive sleepiness
Sleep terror
Hypersomnia
Martin Seligman
Fromm and Reichamn
46. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Confabulations
Dysthymic disorder
Somatic delusion
47. 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
David Rosenhan
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Confabulations
48. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
pathological gambling
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Depressive realism
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
49. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
American Psychologist
anterograde amnesia
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
50. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
diathesis-stress theory
Schizophrenogenic mother
Amnesia
Elimination disorders