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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
DSM (description & history)
Narcissistic personality disorder
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
2. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Amphetamines
Residual (schizophrenia)
retrograde amnesia
Depressive realism
3. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Huntington'S disease
Fromm and Reichamn
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
4. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Trichotillomania
Manic symptoms
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Process schizophrenia
5. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
Delirium
compulsion
Process schizophrenia
Phobia
6. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Pick'S disease
dopamine
Kleptomania
7. Manifested by physical or bodily symptoms that cause reduced functioning; conversion disorder - hypochondriasis; formerly 'psychosomatic' disorders
Delusions
Echolalia (catatonia)
DSM (description & history)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
8. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Abuse
Stanley Hall
Community psychology
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
9. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Insomnia
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Life event stress
Pick'S disease
10. 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
Health psychology
diathesis-stress theory
Life event stress
11. 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
Generalized anxiety disorder
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
DSM (description & history)
Health psychology
12. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
dissociative Identity disorder
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Elimination disorders
Dependent personality disorder
13. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
Huntington'S disease
Sleep terror
Learning disorders
diathesis-stress theory
14. 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
David Rosenhan
Schizophrenogenic mother
Abuse
Elimination disorders
15. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Kleptomania
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
16. Schizophrenogenic mother
Major depressive disorder
Psychological Bulletin
Somatic delusion
Fromm and Reichamn
17. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Dependence
Amnesia
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Somatic delusion
18. Online format of Psychological Abstracts; access all psychology abstracts catalogued under search
Somatic delusion
Manic symptoms
Elimination disorders
PsycINFO database
19. Another person is in love with the individual
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Erotomanic delusion
PsycINFO database
Fromm and Reichamn
20. Most common cause of mental retardation - results from trisomy of chromosome 21; older women have a greater chance of having a baby with Down syndrome
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Nightmare
Down syndrome
Elimination disorders
21. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Manic symptoms
Pick'S disease
Narcolepsy
Schizophrenia (types)
22. Depression resulting from particular events - similar to Martin Seligman'S learned helplessness
Reactive depression
Hypochondriasis
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Stanley Hall
23. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
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24. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Pick'S disease
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Panic attack
Developmental disorders
25. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Insomnia
Mental retardation
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
26. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Residual (schizophrenia)
Martin Seligman
diathesis-stress theory
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
27. 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
Phobia
Agoraphobia
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Antisocial
28. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Hypersomnia
Sleep terror
Histrionic personality disorder
Alzheimer'S disease
29. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; indicated by patterns of behaviour that violate rules - norms - or the rights of others
Psychological abstracts
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
30. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Fromm and Reichamn
Phobia
Shared psychotic disorder
31. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Tic disorders
Martin Seligman
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Stanley Hall
32. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Process schizophrenia
Learning disorders
Pick'S disease
Cretinism
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
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Martin Seligman
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
34. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Paranoid personality disorder
Delirium
Social phobia
Panic disorder
35. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Grandiose delusion
Panic disorder
retrograde amnesia
36. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Life event stress
Nightmare
Mental retardation
Community psychology
37. 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
Specific phobia
Dependence
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Reactive schizophrenia
38. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Borderline personality disorder
Panic disorder
Learning disorders
pathological gambling
39. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Schizoaffective disorder
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
40. 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
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Histrionic personality disorder
Dementia
Parkinson'S
41. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Hypochondriasis
Reactive schizophrenia
Developmental disorders
42. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Residual (schizophrenia)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
43. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Tay-Sachs disease
Anorexia nervosa
Narcissistic personality disorder
Antisocial
44. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Negative symptoms
Schizoid personality disorder
Flat affect
45. Depressive episode by depressed mood - loss of interests - changes in weight or sleep - low energy - feelings of worthlessness - or thoughts of death; symptoms are present nearly every day for at least two weeks; females 2x likelier to be diagnosed;
Major depressive disorder
Anorexia nervosa
compulsion
Delusions
46. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Amnesia
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Psychological Bulletin
47. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Paranoid personality disorder
Primary prevention
Antisocial
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
48. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Manic symptoms
American Psychology Association (APA)
American Psychologist
pyromania
49. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
retrograde amnesia
Reactive schizophrenia
Thomas Szasz
Dementia
50. Multiaxial assessment - across five axes; clinical disorders and other conditions (group 1-15); personality disorders (group 16); General medical conditions; Psychosocial and environmental problems; Global assessment of functioning
DSM (axes)
Disorganized behaviour
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
anterograde amnesia