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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Process schizophrenia
Obsession
2. 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
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
Dementia
3. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Sleep terror
Fugue
anterograde amnesia
Negative symptoms
4. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Process schizophrenia
Borderline personality disorder
Hypochondriasis
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
5. 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
Dependence
Specific phobia
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
6. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Primary prevention
Thomas Szasz
Narcolepsy
7. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Fromm and Reichamn
Learning disorders
Down syndrome
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
8. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
anterograde amnesia
Tardive dyskinesia
Learning disorders
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
9. Manifested by physical or bodily symptoms that cause reduced functioning; conversion disorder - hypochondriasis; formerly 'psychosomatic' disorders
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Phobia
10. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Nightmare
American Psychology Association (APA)
Sleep terror
Manic symptoms
11. 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
DSM (description & history)
Developmental disorders
Down syndrome
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
12. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
Learning disorders
Stanley Hall
Thomas Szasz
Delirium
13. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Residual (schizophrenia)
Dysthymic disorder
Disorganized behaviour
Amnesia
14. Imitating gestures of others
Bulimia nervosa
Grandiose delusion
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Echolalia (catatonia)
15. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Paranoid personality disorder
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Dementia
16. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Huntington'S disease
dopamine
17. Online format of Psychological Abstracts; access all psychology abstracts catalogued under search
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Delirium
PsycINFO database
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
18. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Hypersomnia
Abuse
Somatic delusion
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
19. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Health psychology
Avoidant personality disorder
Flat affect
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
20. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Amnesia
Huntington'S disease
Schizophrenia (description)
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
21. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Trichotillomania
Elimination disorders
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
22. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Flat affect
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
23. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
Delusional disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Developmental disorders
Martin Seligman
24. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
Conversion disorder
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Huntington'S disease
Cretinism
25. From vitamin B deficiency - loss of memory and orientation - often make up confabulations - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
26. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Primary prevention
Disorganized behaviour
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Psychological abstracts
27. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
28. Excessive sleepiness
Fromm and Reichamn
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Hypersomnia
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
29. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Dependence
Nightmare
Life event stress
Schizophrenia (onset)
30. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
31. Fear of a situation that might arise panic symptoms - and escape would be difficult; usually fear and avoidance of being outside the home or in crowds
Schizoid personality disorder
Elimination disorders
Agoraphobia
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
32. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; indicated by patterns of behaviour that violate rules - norms - or the rights of others
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Schizotypal personality disorder
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
33. From thiamine deficiency - memory problems and eye dysfunctions - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
34. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Echolalia (catatonia)
Dependent personality disorder
Amphetamines
35. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Schizophrenia (description)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Primary prevention
Generalized anxiety disorder
36. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Dementia
Parasomnias
Delusional disorder
Delusions
37. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Flat affect
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
38. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Down syndrome
Martin Seligman
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Schizophrenia (etiology)
39. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
American Psychologist
Panic attack
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
40. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Fugue
Borderline personality disorder
Conversion disorder
Specific phobia
41. 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
Phobia
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
David Rosenhan
Bulimia nervosa
42. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Paranoid personality disorder
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
43. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Hypersomnia
Elimination disorders
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
44. Depression resulting from particular events - similar to Martin Seligman'S learned helplessness
Reactive depression
compulsion
Bulimia nervosa
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
45. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania
Culturally competent interventions
Manic symptoms
Martin Seligman
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
46. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Pick'S disease
Erotomanic delusion
Down syndrome
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
47. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Mental retardation
48. 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
Parkinson'S
DSM (axes)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Life event stress
49. Schizophrenogenic mother
Fromm and Reichamn
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Depressive realism
Dependence
50. Falling asleep uncontrollably during routine daily activity
Insomnia
Dependent personality disorder
Narcolepsy
Disorganized behaviour