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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Bipolar disorder
Somatic delusion
Life event stress
Neuroleptic drugs
2. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Panic disorder
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Somatic delusion
Major depressive disorder
3. 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
Health psychology
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Primary prevention
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
4. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Dysthymic disorder
DSM (axes)
Grandiose delusion
Histrionic personality disorder
5. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
Culturally competent interventions
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Psychological Bulletin
compulsion
6. Imitating gestures of others
Obsession
Dyssomnias
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Process schizophrenia
7. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Psychological Bulletin
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
pyromania
DSM (description & history)
8. 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
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Agoraphobia
9. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Negative symptoms
pyromania
Amphetamines
10. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Schizoaffective disorder
Dependent personality disorder
11. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Amphetamines
Schizophrenia (description)
12. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Paranoid personality disorder
Dementia
Schizoaffective disorder
Social phobia
13. Irresistible impulse to set fires
pyromania
Social phobia
Elimination disorders
Disorganized behaviour
14. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Martin Seligman
Somatic delusion
Manic symptoms
dissociative Identity disorder
15. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Reactive schizophrenia
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Insomnia
16. Another person is in love with the individual
Manic symptoms
Erotomanic delusion
Psychological Bulletin
Schizotypal personality disorder
17. Tremors with declining neurological functioning; caused by deficient dopamine activity - boost dopamine by drug such as levodopa
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18. 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
Schizophrenogenic mother
Generalized anxiety disorder
Primary prevention
Dysthymic disorder
19. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Histrionic personality disorder
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
American Psychology Association (APA)
Dependence
20. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Reactive schizophrenia
Dependent personality disorder
Alzheimer'S disease
21. 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;
Major depressive disorder
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Developmental disorders
Schizotypal personality disorder
22. Many schizophrenic symptoms not fitting a particular type
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Bulimia nervosa
Conversion disorder
23. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Stanley Hall
Hypersomnia
Erotomanic delusion
24. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Dysthymic disorder
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
25. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Schizoid personality disorder
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Delusional disorder
26. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Schizoaffective disorder
Tay-Sachs disease
Narcolepsy
Huntington'S disease
27. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Delusions
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Grandiose delusion
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
28. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Schizophrenia (etiology)
retrograde amnesia
David Rosenhan
29. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Bulimia nervosa
Echolalia (catatonia)
Parasomnias
Dependent personality disorder
30. A component of many different anxiety disorders - lasts for a discrete period of time often <10 min; overwhelming feelings of danger or need to escape - expressed as an intense fear of dying or 'going crazy'; accompanied by sweating - trembling - pou
Insomnia
Panic attack
Trichotillomania
Borderline personality disorder
31. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Life event stress
Schizoaffective disorder
Anorexia nervosa
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
32. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Somatic delusion
Depressive realism
Anorexia nervosa
33. 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
Psychological abstracts
Erotomanic delusion
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
34. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Trichotillomania
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Phobia
35. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Developmental disorders
Reactive schizophrenia
Community psychology
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
36. 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 (axes)
DSM (description & history)
Shared psychotic disorder
Schizophrenia (description)
37. Inappropriate dress - agitation - shouting
Borderline personality disorder
Disorganized behaviour
Flat affect
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
38. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Developmental disorders
Histrionic personality disorder
Delusional disorder
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
39. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Negative symptoms
Schizophrenia (onset)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
40. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Echolalia (catatonia)
Bulimia nervosa
Tic disorders
Primary prevention
41. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Primary prevention
Thomas Szasz
Kleptomania
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
42. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Community psychology
Depressive realism
Schizophrenia (types)
Narcolepsy
43. Type of mother who 'causes' children to become schizophrenic
Schizophrenogenic mother
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Confabulations
44. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
anterograde amnesia
Tardive dyskinesia
Schizophrenia (onset)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
45. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Narcolepsy
Panic disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
Tay-Sachs disease
46. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Schizophrenia (description)
Schizoid personality disorder
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Borderline personality disorder
47. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Reactive depression
Nightmare
Generalized anxiety disorder
Tic disorders
48. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Confabulations
Reactive schizophrenia
Conversion disorder
49. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
dopamine
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Bulimia nervosa
American Psychologist
50. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Schizophrenogenic mother
Anorexia nervosa
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Health psychology