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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. 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
Culturally competent interventions
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Negative symptoms
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
2. Falling asleep uncontrollably during routine daily activity
Erotomanic delusion
Narcolepsy
Panic attack
Developmental disorders
3. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Borderline personality disorder
dopamine
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
4. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Nightmare
Dysthymic disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Schizoaffective disorder
5. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Specific phobia
Insomnia
pathological gambling
American Psychologist
6. Tremors with declining neurological functioning; caused by deficient dopamine activity - boost dopamine by drug such as levodopa
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7. 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
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Psychological abstracts
David Rosenhan
dopamine
8. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Schizotypal personality disorder
Phobia
compulsion
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
9. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Panic attack
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Schizoid personality disorder
10. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Hypersomnia
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Dependent personality disorder
Stanley Hall
11. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
dissociative Identity disorder
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Insomnia
Cretinism
12. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Negative symptoms
Parasomnias
Dysthymic disorder
13. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Disorganized behaviour
Bulimia nervosa
Confabulations
Life event stress
14. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Schizoaffective disorder
Manic symptoms
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
pathological gambling
15. Schizophrenogenic mother
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Mental retardation
Narcolepsy
Fromm and Reichamn
16. 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
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
DSM (description & history)
Anorexia nervosa
Mental retardation
17. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
Fromm and Reichamn
Hypersomnia
Schizophrenia (description)
compulsion
18. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Nightmare
Paranoid personality disorder
Parasomnias
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
19. Online format of Psychological Abstracts; access all psychology abstracts catalogued under search
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
PsycINFO database
Learning disorders
Mental retardation
20. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
DSM (description & history)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Confabulations
Post-traumatic stress disorder
21. 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
Dependence
Health psychology
compulsion
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
22. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Paranoid personality disorder
23. Type of mother who 'causes' children to become schizophrenic
Amnesia
Hypersomnia
Disorganized behaviour
Schizophrenogenic mother
24. Irresistible impulse to set fires
pyromania
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Erotomanic delusion
Avoidant personality disorder
25. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Process schizophrenia
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Conversion disorder
26. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
pathological gambling
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Residual (schizophrenia)
27. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Martin Seligman
Paranoid personality disorder
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Schizoid personality disorder
28. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Hypochondriasis
Martin Seligman
Bipolar disorder
American Psychology Association (APA)
29. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Elimination disorders
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Stanley Hall
30. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Antisocial
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Grandiose delusion
Narcissistic personality disorder
31. Irresistible impulse to steal
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Histrionic personality disorder
Kleptomania
32. From vitamin B deficiency - loss of memory and orientation - often make up confabulations - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
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33. Perhaps use of neologisms
Borderline personality disorder
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Phobia
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
34. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
retrograde amnesia
Antisocial
Schizoid personality disorder
David Rosenhan
35. Manifested by physical or bodily symptoms that cause reduced functioning; conversion disorder - hypochondriasis; formerly 'psychosomatic' disorders
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Elimination disorders
Schizotypal personality disorder
36. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Primary prevention
compulsion
Agoraphobia
Somatic delusion
37. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Amnesia
Schizophrenia (etiology)
diathesis-stress theory
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
38. Inappropriate dress - agitation - shouting
Schizophrenia (description)
Negative symptoms
pathological gambling
Disorganized behaviour
39. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; indicated by patterns of behaviour that violate rules - norms - or the rights of others
Somatic delusion
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Wernicke'S syndrome
Depressive realism
40. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Tardive dyskinesia
Community psychology
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Schizophrenia (onset)
41. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Neuroleptic drugs
Dependence
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Tay-Sachs disease
42. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Grandiose delusion
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Shared psychotic disorder
Depressive realism
43. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Health psychology
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Huntington'S disease
44. 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;
Antisocial
Major depressive disorder
Erotomanic delusion
Dysthymic disorder
45. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Agoraphobia
Tic disorders
46. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Manic symptoms
Hypochondriasis
Parasomnias
diathesis-stress theory
47. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Delusions
Dependence
compulsion
Mental retardation
48. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Psychological Bulletin
Dysthymic disorder
Paranoid personality disorder
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
49. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal
Schizoid personality disorder
Parasomnias
David Rosenhan
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
50. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Fugue
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Schizophrenia (description)
Social phobia