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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; indicated by patterns of behaviour that violate rules - norms - or the rights of others
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Dementia
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Reactive schizophrenia
2. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Schizophrenia (onset)
Psychological Bulletin
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
3. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Health psychology
Dysthymic disorder
Erotomanic delusion
Histrionic personality disorder
4. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Social phobia
dissociative Identity disorder
Bulimia nervosa
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
5. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Specific phobia
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Reactive depression
Trichotillomania
6. 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
Dementia
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Dyssomnias
anterograde amnesia
7. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Hypochondriasis
Tardive dyskinesia
Residual (schizophrenia)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
8. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Antisocial
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Phobia
DSM (axes)
9. 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
Martin Seligman
Amnesia
Wernicke'S syndrome
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
10. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
Confabulations
Conversion disorder
Neuroleptic drugs
Amnesia
11. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Sleep terror
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Echolalia (catatonia)
12. 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
Bulimia nervosa
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Neuroleptic drugs
Culturally competent interventions
13. 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;
Depressive realism
Psychological Bulletin
Major depressive disorder
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
14. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Psychological abstracts
Nightmare
pathological gambling
Tic disorders
15. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Schizoid personality disorder
Parasomnias
diathesis-stress theory
Factitious disorder (group 9)
16. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
American Psychology Association (APA)
Fugue
Wernicke'S syndrome
Amnesia
17. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Schizoaffective disorder
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Narcissistic personality disorder
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
18. Parroting
Avoidant personality disorder
Echolalia (catatonia)
Disorganized behaviour
Alzheimer'S disease
19. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Delusions
Antisocial
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Reactive schizophrenia
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
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Histrionic personality disorder
Health psychology
Dependence
21. Imitating gestures of others
American Psychologist
Developmental disorders
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Sleep terror
22. Persistent thoughts
Obsession
Developmental disorders
Alzheimer'S disease
Psychological Bulletin
23. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
compulsion
Thomas Szasz
DSM (description & history)
Delusions
24. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Culturally competent interventions
Schizoid personality disorder
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
25. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Tardive dyskinesia
Confabulations
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Elimination disorders
26. 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
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Fromm and Reichamn
Process schizophrenia
Primary prevention
27. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Insomnia
Agoraphobia
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
28. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Pick'S disease
Schizophrenogenic mother
Primary prevention
Amphetamines
29. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Dependent personality disorder
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
30. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Tic disorders
Bulimia nervosa
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
31. 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
Disorganized behaviour
Psychological abstracts
Major depressive disorder
Delirium
32. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.
Erotomanic delusion
Parasomnias
Dyssomnias
Schizophrenia (description)
33. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Schizoaffective disorder
diathesis-stress theory
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
34. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Fugue
American Psychologist
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
35. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Major depressive disorder
Abuse
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
36. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Panic disorder
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Community psychology
37. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Psychological Bulletin
38. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
American Psychology Association (APA)
Reactive schizophrenia
Echolalia (catatonia)
Erotomanic delusion
39. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Manic symptoms
Disorganized behaviour
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
40. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Bipolar disorder
David Rosenhan
Parasomnias
pathological gambling
41. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
pyromania
Schizoid personality disorder
Hypochondriasis
42. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
Agoraphobia
Schizoid personality disorder
Dependence
Narcissistic personality disorder
43. Dependence and abuse of various substances
DSM (axes)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
44. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
Delusional disorder
diathesis-stress theory
dissociative Identity disorder
Fugue
45. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
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46. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania
Culturally competent interventions
Schizoid personality disorder
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Psychological Bulletin
47. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Shared psychotic disorder
Fugue
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Cretinism
48. Tremors with declining neurological functioning; caused by deficient dopamine activity - boost dopamine by drug such as levodopa
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49. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Delusions
Parasomnias
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
50. Learned helplessness
Delusions
Schizotypal personality disorder
Parasomnias
Martin Seligman