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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. 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
Delirium
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Process schizophrenia
Dependence
2. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Amnesia
Narcolepsy
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
3. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Depressive realism
Trichotillomania
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Tic disorders
4. 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)
Primary prevention
Phobia
Negative symptoms
5. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Shared psychotic disorder
Delusional disorder
Manic symptoms
6. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Pick'S disease
Amnesia
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
7. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Depressive realism
Parasomnias
Reactive schizophrenia
8. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Life event stress
Dementia
Delirium
9. 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
dopamine
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Narcolepsy
10. 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
Narcolepsy
DSM (description & history)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
PsycINFO database
11. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Schizoaffective disorder
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Delusional disorder
12. Index published by APA - found at most major libraries; montly compilation of 'nonevaluative summaries of the world'S literature in psychology'; in each issue - article abstracts arranged by topic; hardcopy version of PsycINFO
Psychological abstracts
Dysthymic disorder
American Psychology Association (APA)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
13. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Bulimia nervosa
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Histrionic personality disorder
Manic symptoms
14. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Schizoaffective disorder
Neuroleptic drugs
Schizophrenia (description)
pyromania
15. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Dysthymic disorder
Trichotillomania
Schizophrenia (onset)
16. 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
Borderline personality disorder
Obsession
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
17. Parroting
David Rosenhan
Manic symptoms
Depressive realism
Echolalia (catatonia)
18. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Tay-Sachs disease
Fromm and Reichamn
19. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
Agoraphobia
Developmental disorders
Schizophrenia (types)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
20. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Disorganized behaviour
Stanley Hall
Reactive depression
Wernicke'S syndrome
21. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Reactive schizophrenia
Social phobia
Learning disorders
Pick'S disease
22. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Bulimia nervosa
Insomnia
retrograde amnesia
Avoidant personality disorder
23. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Down syndrome
retrograde amnesia
Kleptomania
Insomnia
24. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Delusional disorder
Hypochondriasis
Negative symptoms
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
25. Persistent thoughts
Social phobia
Obsession
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Culturally competent interventions
26. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Depressive realism
Amphetamines
Kleptomania
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
27. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
28. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger
Conversion disorder
Dementia
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Abuse
29. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Narcolepsy
pyromania
Anorexia nervosa
Elimination disorders
30. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Histrionic personality disorder
Cretinism
Flat affect
compulsion
31. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Schizophrenia (types)
Bulimia nervosa
Generalized anxiety disorder
Developmental disorders
32. 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
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Flat affect
Down syndrome
Hypochondriasis
33. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Insomnia
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Community psychology
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
34. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Tardive dyskinesia
Schizotypal personality disorder
Amnesia
35. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Pick'S disease
Tay-Sachs disease
pyromania
Dependent personality disorder
36. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Dyssomnias
Sleep terror
Panic disorder
Wernicke'S syndrome
37. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Schizophrenia (types)
Elimination disorders
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Paranoid personality disorder
38. Perhaps use of neologisms
Wernicke'S syndrome
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Martin Seligman
Pick'S disease
39. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
Antisocial
Delirium
Fugue
Delusional disorder
40. Learned helplessness
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Martin Seligman
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Disorganized behaviour
41. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Elimination disorders
Panic disorder
Catalepsy (catatonia)
compulsion
42. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Hypochondriasis
Health psychology
Tay-Sachs disease
Bipolar disorder
43. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
Schizophrenia (description)
Somatic delusion
Fromm and Reichamn
Delirium
44. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Amnesia
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
45. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Nightmare
pathological gambling
Abuse
Post-traumatic stress disorder
46. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
Phobia
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Bipolar disorder
Thomas Szasz
47. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Somatic delusion
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Anorexia nervosa
Bulimia nervosa
48. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Generalized anxiety disorder
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Delirium
49. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
pyromania
Schizotypal personality disorder
Developmental disorders
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
50. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Depressive realism
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Parasomnias