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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
pathological gambling
Psychological abstracts
Catalepsy (catatonia)
2. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Huntington'S disease
Abuse
Neuroleptic drugs
3. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Generalized anxiety disorder
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
anterograde amnesia
Schizophrenia (onset)
4. 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
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Panic attack
Antisocial
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
5. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Agoraphobia
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Process schizophrenia
Mental retardation
6. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Elimination disorders
Life event stress
Amnesia
dopamine
7. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
compulsion
dopamine
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
8. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Cretinism
compulsion
Negative symptoms
Mental retardation
9. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Schizotypal personality disorder
David Rosenhan
Cretinism
10. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Conversion disorder
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
11. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Down syndrome
Nightmare
Wernicke'S syndrome
Amphetamines
12. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Depressive realism
Stanley Hall
Echopraxia (catatonia)
13. 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
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
dopamine
Sleep terror
14. Imitating gestures of others
Dementia
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Schizophrenia (description)
15. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
16. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Sleep terror
American Psychologist
Psychological abstracts
Avoidant personality disorder
17. Irresistible impulse to steal
Manic symptoms
Schizophrenia (types)
Primary prevention
Kleptomania
18. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Confabulations
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Tardive dyskinesia
Schizophrenia (etiology)
19. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Schizoaffective disorder
Delusions
anterograde amnesia
Schizophrenia (description)
20. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
21. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Hypersomnia
Sleep terror
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Delusions
22. From vitamin B deficiency - loss of memory and orientation - often make up confabulations - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
23. From thiamine deficiency - memory problems and eye dysfunctions - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
24. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Hypersomnia
Dependence
25. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Dependence
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
26. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
27. 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
Panic attack
Culturally competent interventions
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
28. Hall; founded 1892; governing body of psychology; purpose to 'advance psychology as a science - as a profession - and as a means of promoting human welfare'
Cretinism
Dementia
American Psychology Association (APA)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
29. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Paranoid personality disorder
Manic symptoms
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Schizophrenia (onset)
30. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Panic disorder
Cretinism
Negative symptoms
Antisocial
31. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Neuroleptic drugs
Schizoaffective disorder
David Rosenhan
32. 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
Confabulations
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
David Rosenhan
33. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
American Psychologist
Thomas Szasz
Tic disorders
34. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Grandiose delusion
Bulimia nervosa
Confabulations
Panic disorder
35. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Specific phobia
Delusional disorder
Panic disorder
36. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Social phobia
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
David Rosenhan
Panic disorder
37. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Residual (schizophrenia)
Pick'S disease
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
38. Type of mother who 'causes' children to become schizophrenic
dissociative Identity disorder
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Schizophrenogenic mother
Dependent personality disorder
39. 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
Insomnia
Hypochondriasis
Fromm and Reichamn
Dependence
40. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Dependence
Phobia
Conversion disorder
Negative symptoms
41. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Stanley Hall
Culturally competent interventions
Fugue
Schizophrenogenic mother
42. Online format of Psychological Abstracts; access all psychology abstracts catalogued under search
Confabulations
compulsion
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
PsycINFO database
43. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Manic symptoms
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Social phobia
44. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
compulsion
Negative symptoms
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Alzheimer'S disease
45. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania
Avoidant personality disorder
Primary prevention
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
46. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Schizophrenia (types)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Shared psychotic disorder
Factitious disorder (group 9)
47. Absence of appropriate emotion
Schizotypal personality disorder
Flat affect
dissociative Identity disorder
Hypochondriasis
48. Many schizophrenic symptoms not fitting a particular type
pathological gambling
Trichotillomania
Borderline personality disorder
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
49. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Learning disorders
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Confabulations
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
50. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Community psychology
Thomas Szasz
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Flat affect