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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Phobia
Abuse
Delirium
Bipolar disorder
2. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Residual (schizophrenia)
Primary prevention
Erotomanic delusion
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
3. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
4. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
dissociative Identity disorder
Panic attack
Schizophrenia (types)
5. Depression resulting from particular events - similar to Martin Seligman'S learned helplessness
pyromania
Reactive depression
Delusional disorder
Learning disorders
6. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
pyromania
Erotomanic delusion
Hypochondriasis
Narcissistic personality disorder
7. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
8. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Schizotypal personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder
Amphetamines
Schizophrenia (onset)
9. Another person is in love with the individual
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Erotomanic delusion
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Dependence
10. Male with one Y and 2 X chromosomes - hypogonadism and reduced fertility; other physical and behavioural differences and problems with varying severity
11. From vitamin B deficiency - loss of memory and orientation - often make up confabulations - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
12. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Schizophrenia (description)
Schizotypal personality disorder
DSM (description & history)
Huntington'S disease
13. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Shared psychotic disorder
14. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Schizoid personality disorder
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Huntington'S disease
15. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Fugue
Conversion disorder
Neuroleptic drugs
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
16. Online format of Psychological Abstracts; access all psychology abstracts catalogued under search
Trichotillomania
Alzheimer'S disease
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
PsycINFO database
17. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Disorganized behaviour
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Psychological Bulletin
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
18. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Tic disorders
Nightmare
Generalized anxiety disorder
Grandiose delusion
19. Absence of appropriate emotion
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Amnesia
Flat affect
Tardive dyskinesia
20. 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
Nightmare
Social phobia
pathological gambling
Dependence
21. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Dementia
pyromania
DSM (description & history)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
22. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Delusions
Amphetamines
Cretinism
23. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Reactive schizophrenia
Narcissistic personality disorder
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Developmental disorders
24. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger
Panic attack
Abuse
Life event stress
Phobia
25. Schizophrenogenic mother
Abuse
Primary prevention
Anorexia nervosa
Fromm and Reichamn
26. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Confabulations
Life event stress
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
27. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
Process schizophrenia
Shared psychotic disorder
Schizophrenogenic mother
DSM (axes)
28. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Delirium
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
retrograde amnesia
29. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Huntington'S disease
pyromania
Social phobia
Catalepsy (catatonia)
30. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
31. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Dependent personality disorder
Antisocial
Negative symptoms
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
32. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Histrionic personality disorder
pyromania
Narcissistic personality disorder
Anorexia nervosa
33. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Psychological Bulletin
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Health psychology
Somatic delusion
34. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Dysthymic disorder
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Bulimia nervosa
Panic disorder
35. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Negative symptoms
pathological gambling
Process schizophrenia
36. Irresistble impulse to gamble
pathological gambling
Schizotypal personality disorder
Depressive realism
Negative symptoms
37. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Somatic delusion
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Grandiose delusion
retrograde amnesia
38. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
Community psychology
Psychological abstracts
anterograde amnesia
Parasomnias
39. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Dementia
Hypersomnia
Narcolepsy
Tay-Sachs disease
40. 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
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Developmental disorders
Agoraphobia
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
41. Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence; delirium - dementia - other cognitive disorders; mental disorders due to a general medical condition; substance-related disorders; schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders; mood disorders;
Korsakoff'S syndrome
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Delirium
42. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Wernicke'S syndrome
Schizoid personality disorder
43. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Trichotillomania
Phobia
Avoidant personality disorder
Schizophrenia (types)
44. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
pyromania
Developmental disorders
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Agoraphobia
45. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Bulimia nervosa
Fugue
Avoidant personality disorder
Korsakoff'S syndrome
46. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
47. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Histrionic personality disorder
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Parkinson'S
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
48. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Borderline personality disorder
Amnesia
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Social phobia
49. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
dopamine
Erotomanic delusion
Agoraphobia
50. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Bulimia nervosa
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Amphetamines
Specific phobia