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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Sleep terror
Stanley Hall
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Specific phobia
2. One has special talent or status
Delusions
Grandiose delusion
American Psychologist
Obsession
3. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Histrionic personality disorder
Somatic delusion
Agoraphobia
4. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Stanley Hall
Pick'S disease
Bipolar disorder
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
5. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Generalized anxiety disorder
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
6. Falling asleep uncontrollably during routine daily activity
Narcolepsy
Tic disorders
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Panic disorder
7. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Mental retardation
Tic disorders
Dependence
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
8. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Anorexia nervosa
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
9. Exposure to trauma that results in decreased ability to function and recurrent thoughts and anxiety about the incident; often linked to war veterans or victims of violence
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Schizophrenia (types)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Echolalia (catatonia)
10. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Culturally competent interventions
Down syndrome
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
11. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Martin Seligman
Process schizophrenia
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
12. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Major depressive disorder
Psychological abstracts
Shared psychotic disorder
Panic disorder
13. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Tardive dyskinesia
compulsion
Fugue
14. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Major depressive disorder
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
15. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
retrograde amnesia
American Psychologist
Pick'S disease
Reactive depression
16. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
Agoraphobia
anterograde amnesia
Process schizophrenia
compulsion
17. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal
Primary prevention
Process schizophrenia
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
18. 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;
Neuroleptic drugs
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Major depressive disorder
Martin Seligman
19. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Negative symptoms
Borderline personality disorder
Schizophrenia (types)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
20. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Residual (schizophrenia)
Mental retardation
Schizotypal personality disorder
21. 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
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Delusional disorder
Residual (schizophrenia)
22. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Major depressive disorder
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Wernicke'S syndrome
Tic disorders
23. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
American Psychology Association (APA)
Anorexia nervosa
Specific phobia
Psychological abstracts
24. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Delirium
dissociative Identity disorder
Hypochondriasis
25. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Echolalia (catatonia)
Histrionic personality disorder
Tic disorders
Learning disorders
26. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia
Delusions
dopamine
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Erotomanic delusion
27. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Thomas Szasz
Cretinism
Community psychology
Down syndrome
28. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Delusions
29. Anxiety around social or performance situations
retrograde amnesia
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Social phobia
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
30. Tremors with declining neurological functioning; caused by deficient dopamine activity - boost dopamine by drug such as levodopa
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31. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
dissociative Identity disorder
Dyssomnias
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
32. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
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33. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
American Psychologist
diathesis-stress theory
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Reactive depression
34. Excessive sleepiness
Hypersomnia
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Cretinism
35. Persistent thoughts
Alzheimer'S disease
Borderline personality disorder
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Obsession
36. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
Alzheimer'S disease
Schizoid personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Kleptomania
37. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Process schizophrenia
pyromania
Schizoaffective disorder
Echopraxia (catatonia)
38. Irresistible impulse to steal
Kleptomania
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Sleep terror
39. 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
Wernicke'S syndrome
Primary prevention
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Schizophrenia (description)
40. 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
Narcolepsy
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Culturally competent interventions
41. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Amphetamines
Schizoid personality disorder
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Avoidant personality disorder
42. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
43. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Pick'S disease
diathesis-stress theory
Phobia
44. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Obsession
Amphetamines
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
pathological gambling
45. Parroting
American Psychologist
Echolalia (catatonia)
Phobia
Amphetamines
46. Another person is in love with the individual
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Bulimia nervosa
Erotomanic delusion
47. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Delusions
Bipolar disorder
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
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
Wernicke'S syndrome
Echolalia (catatonia)
DSM (axes)
Hypochondriasis
49. 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
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Fromm and Reichamn
David Rosenhan
Residual (schizophrenia)
50. Type of mother who 'causes' children to become schizophrenic
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
David Rosenhan
Dementia
Schizophrenogenic mother