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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2

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1. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders






2. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders






3. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality


4. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)






5. Depression resulting from particular events - similar to Martin Seligman'S learned helplessness






6. Irrational concern about having a serious disease






7. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement


8. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality






9. Another person is in love with the individual






10. Male with one Y and 2 X chromosomes - hypogonadism and reduced fertility; other physical and behavioural differences and problems with varying severity


11. From vitamin B deficiency - loss of memory and orientation - often make up confabulations - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking


12. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative






13. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions






14. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia






15. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity






16. Online format of Psychological Abstracts; access all psychology abstracts catalogued under search






17. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews






18. Frequently treated with anxiolytics






19. Absence of appropriate emotion






20. 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






21. Irresistible impulse to set fires






22. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual






23. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery






24. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger






25. Schizophrenogenic mother






26. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems






27. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery






28. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)






29. Anxiety around social or performance situations






30. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning


31. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour






32. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity






33. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen






34. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode






35. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor






36. Irresistble impulse to gamble






37. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma






38. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma






39. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)






40. 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






41. Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence; delirium - dementia - other cognitive disorders; mental disorders due to a general medical condition; substance-related disorders; schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders; mood disorders;






42. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion






43. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual






44. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome






45. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy






46. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention






47. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking






48. Inability to recall information relating to trauma






49. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia






50. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)