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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Depression resulting from particular events - similar to Martin Seligman'S learned helplessness
Learning disorders
Reactive depression
pyromania
Nightmare
2. Prevent documented psychosocial problems through contact with an at-risk group; proactive intervention; e.g. prenatal health care - Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) - and Head Start
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Parkinson'S
Primary prevention
Borderline personality disorder
3. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Cretinism
Delirium
Culturally competent interventions
David Rosenhan
4. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Histrionic personality disorder
Flat affect
Schizoaffective disorder
Huntington'S disease
5. Perhaps use of neologisms
dissociative Identity disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Amphetamines
6. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Alzheimer'S disease
pyromania
retrograde amnesia
Schizophrenogenic mother
7. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Amnesia
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
8. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Tic disorders
Sleep terror
Health psychology
Cretinism
9. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Depressive realism
Avoidant personality disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
10. 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
Amnesia
Somatic delusion
Conversion disorder
Psychological abstracts
11. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Depressive realism
12. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Psychological abstracts
Dyssomnias
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
13. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
Process schizophrenia
Depressive realism
Abuse
Alzheimer'S disease
14. Imitating gestures of others
Agoraphobia
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Schizoaffective disorder
Martin Seligman
15. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Phobia
Dyssomnias
American Psychology Association (APA)
Cretinism
16. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Neuroleptic drugs
Panic disorder
pathological gambling
Echopraxia (catatonia)
17. 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;
Schizophrenia (types)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Schizophrenogenic mother
Major depressive disorder
18. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
diathesis-stress theory
Community psychology
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
19. 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
DSM (description & history)
Kleptomania
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Negative symptoms
20. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Schizoaffective disorder
Dyssomnias
21. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Delirium
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
22. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Delirium
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Depressive realism
Erotomanic delusion
23. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Grandiose delusion
Obsession
Learning disorders
24. 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
Delusions
Psychological Bulletin
Health psychology
Confabulations
25. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Pick'S disease
Antisocial
PsycINFO database
Specific phobia
26. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Elimination disorders
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Dysthymic disorder
27. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
American Psychology Association (APA)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
DSM (description & history)
Tay-Sachs disease
28. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Developmental disorders
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)
Alzheimer'S disease
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Hypersomnia
30. Tremors with declining neurological functioning; caused by deficient dopamine activity - boost dopamine by drug such as levodopa
31. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Bulimia nervosa
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Delusions
Dependent personality disorder
32. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Schizoid personality disorder
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Tardive dyskinesia
33. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Conversion disorder
Dyssomnias
Somatic delusion
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
34. Male with one Y and 2 X chromosomes - hypogonadism and reduced fertility; other physical and behavioural differences and problems with varying severity
35. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Fugue
Fromm and Reichamn
Agoraphobia
36. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Trichotillomania
Insomnia
Amnesia
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
37. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Schizoaffective disorder
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Stanley Hall
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
38. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Anorexia nervosa
Social phobia
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
39. Excessive sleepiness
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Dyssomnias
Hypersomnia
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
40. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Insomnia
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Hypersomnia
41. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Psychological Bulletin
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Fromm and Reichamn
42. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Narcissistic personality disorder
retrograde amnesia
43. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Huntington'S disease
Bulimia nervosa
Community psychology
Residual (schizophrenia)
44. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Parasomnias
retrograde amnesia
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
45. 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'
Panic attack
Parasomnias
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
American Psychology Association (APA)
46. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Psychological abstracts
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Narcissistic personality disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
47. Another person is in love with the individual
Hypersomnia
Erotomanic delusion
Developmental disorders
Reactive depression
48. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; indicated by patterns of behaviour that violate rules - norms - or the rights of others
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
DSM (axes)
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
49. From vitamin B deficiency - loss of memory and orientation - often make up confabulations - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
50. Irresistible impulse to steal
Histrionic personality disorder
Kleptomania
Sleep terror
Obsession