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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Stanley Hall
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
DSM (description & history)
Amnesia
2. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
Schizoid personality disorder
pyromania
Avoidant personality disorder
Tardive dyskinesia
3. One has special talent or status
Mental retardation
Tic disorders
Hypersomnia
Grandiose delusion
4. Imitating gestures of others
Antisocial
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
5. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Psychological Bulletin
Tay-Sachs disease
Specific phobia
6. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
Tic disorders
Mental retardation
diathesis-stress theory
Stanley Hall
7. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Reactive schizophrenia
Mental retardation
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
8. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Residual (schizophrenia)
DSM (description & history)
dopamine
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
9. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Kleptomania
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Delirium
Elimination disorders
10. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Delusions
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Schizophrenia (description)
11. 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
Dementia
Negative symptoms
Social phobia
Learning disorders
12. 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
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Avoidant personality disorder
Cretinism
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
13. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
Narcissistic personality disorder
Process schizophrenia
Delusional disorder
Reactive depression
14. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Insomnia
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
retrograde amnesia
15. 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
Somatic delusion
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Down syndrome
Schizoaffective disorder
16. 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;
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
DSM (axes)
Major depressive disorder
Agoraphobia
17. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Primary prevention
Learning disorders
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
18. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Obsession
Wernicke'S syndrome
19. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Generalized anxiety disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Parkinson'S
Social phobia
20. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Delusions
Dysthymic disorder
Psychological Bulletin
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
21. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Somatic delusion
Borderline personality disorder
Schizoaffective disorder
22. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Specific phobia
Somatic delusion
Residual (schizophrenia)
23. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
diathesis-stress theory
Echopraxia (catatonia)
dissociative Identity disorder
Schizophrenia (description)
24. 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)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Dysthymic disorder
25. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
dopamine
Delirium
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
26. Manifested by physical or bodily symptoms that cause reduced functioning; conversion disorder - hypochondriasis; formerly 'psychosomatic' disorders
Schizoaffective disorder
Hypochondriasis
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
27. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Delusions
Generalized anxiety disorder
28. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Primary prevention
Huntington'S disease
Conversion disorder
29. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
Dysthymic disorder
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Schizophrenia (onset)
Grandiose delusion
30. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
retrograde amnesia
31. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Psychological Bulletin
Trichotillomania
Avoidant personality disorder
Fugue
32. 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)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
dopamine
33. Perhaps use of neologisms
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
DSM (axes)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Anorexia nervosa
34. Many schizophrenic symptoms not fitting a particular type
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Residual (schizophrenia)
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
35. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Alzheimer'S disease
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Tardive dyskinesia
Phobia
36. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Dependent personality disorder
Delirium
Schizophrenogenic mother
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
37. Irresistible impulse to steal
Negative symptoms
Schizophrenogenic mother
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Kleptomania
38. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Learning disorders
pathological gambling
Narcissistic personality disorder
Huntington'S disease
39. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Flat affect
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Amphetamines
diathesis-stress theory
40. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Dependence
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Life event stress
41. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Cretinism
compulsion
Delusional disorder
42. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Nightmare
Life event stress
Sleep terror
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
43. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
44. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Somatic delusion
Tic disorders
Pick'S disease
45. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Psychological Bulletin
Tardive dyskinesia
Community psychology
Anorexia nervosa
46. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Shared psychotic disorder
Psychological abstracts
Tic disorders
47. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Trichotillomania
Generalized anxiety disorder
Confabulations
Borderline personality disorder
48. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Delirium
Dependent personality disorder
Process schizophrenia
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
49. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Delirium
Social phobia
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Nightmare
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
Depressive realism
dopamine
Schizoid personality disorder
David Rosenhan