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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
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2. Mental disorders - diagnostic criteria - official numerical codes - first published 1952 - for clinical - research and educational use; 4th edition 1994 - text revision 2000 - DSM V 2012
Paranoid personality disorder
American Psychologist
Reactive depression
DSM (description & history)
3. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Tic disorders
Tardive dyskinesia
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Borderline personality disorder
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
Parkinson'S
Delusions
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Panic attack
5. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Tay-Sachs disease
Generalized anxiety disorder
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
pathological gambling
6. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Wernicke'S syndrome
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
7. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Dementia
Alzheimer'S disease
Fugue
8. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
DSM (axes)
Specific phobia
Schizophrenia (types)
retrograde amnesia
9. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Schizotypal personality disorder
Abuse
Anorexia nervosa
Schizophrenia (types)
10. Another person is in love with the individual
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Erotomanic delusion
Developmental disorders
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
11. 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
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Delirium
Abuse
Culturally competent interventions
12. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
Huntington'S disease
Developmental disorders
PsycINFO database
Generalized anxiety disorder
13. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Insomnia
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Narcissistic personality disorder
Cretinism
14. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Narcolepsy
Parasomnias
Amnesia
Neuroleptic drugs
15. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Health psychology
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Learning disorders
Conversion disorder
16. Imitating gestures of others
Nightmare
American Psychology Association (APA)
Manic symptoms
Echopraxia (catatonia)
17. Irresistible impulse to steal
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Reactive schizophrenia
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Kleptomania
18. Absence of appropriate emotion
Life event stress
Flat affect
Schizophrenia (types)
Health psychology
19. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
American Psychologist
Elimination disorders
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
diathesis-stress theory
20. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Mental retardation
Stanley Hall
21. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Tardive dyskinesia
Neuroleptic drugs
Delusional disorder
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
22. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Psychological abstracts
Anorexia nervosa
Stanley Hall
Delusional disorder
23. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Hypersomnia
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Major depressive disorder
24. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
American Psychology Association (APA)
Amnesia
Learning disorders
25. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Phobia
DSM (axes)
Stanley Hall
Hypochondriasis
26. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Nightmare
Wernicke'S syndrome
27. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Schizophrenia (onset)
Schizoaffective disorder
Amnesia
Schizophrenia (description)
28. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Borderline personality disorder
Schizophrenia (description)
Delusional disorder
29. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Panic disorder
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Trichotillomania
Schizophrenia (description)
30. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Reactive schizophrenia
Martin Seligman
Agoraphobia
Histrionic personality disorder
31. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Primary prevention
Residual (schizophrenia)
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Psychological Bulletin
32. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
pathological gambling
Tay-Sachs disease
Schizoid personality disorder
33. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Down syndrome
Generalized anxiety disorder
anterograde amnesia
Depressive realism
34. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
Culturally competent interventions
Specific phobia
diathesis-stress theory
Reactive schizophrenia
35. Online format of Psychological Abstracts; access all psychology abstracts catalogued under search
DSM (axes)
Pick'S disease
Elimination disorders
PsycINFO database
36. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Schizophrenia (types)
Generalized anxiety disorder
Pick'S disease
37. 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
Kleptomania
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Nightmare
38. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Major depressive disorder
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
39. Inappropriate dress - agitation - shouting
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Confabulations
Hypochondriasis
Disorganized behaviour
40. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Amnesia
Depressive realism
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Paranoid personality disorder
41. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Dyssomnias
Bulimia nervosa
pyromania
42. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Pick'S disease
Social phobia
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
43. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Pick'S disease
Narcissistic personality disorder
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
44. Many schizophrenic symptoms not fitting a particular type
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Schizophrenia (description)
Mental retardation
45. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Schizophrenia (onset)
Cretinism
Avoidant personality disorder
Negative symptoms
46. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Conversion disorder
Schizophrenia (onset)
47. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
Delusional disorder
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Process schizophrenia
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
48. One has special talent or status
Schizophrenia (description)
Abuse
Grandiose delusion
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
49. Schizophrenogenic mother
Fromm and Reichamn
Martin Seligman
Parasomnias
Conversion disorder
50. 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
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
David Rosenhan
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Generalized anxiety disorder