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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. 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
DSM (axes)
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
2. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Manic symptoms
Dependent personality disorder
Residual (schizophrenia)
Schizophrenia (types)
3. Male with one Y and 2 X chromosomes - hypogonadism and reduced fertility; other physical and behavioural differences and problems with varying severity
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4. Hall; founded 1892; governing body of psychology; purpose to 'advance psychology as a science - as a profession - and as a means of promoting human welfare'
Delusional disorder
American Psychology Association (APA)
Narcissistic personality disorder
Amnesia
5. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
pyromania
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Cretinism
Flat affect
6. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Stanley Hall
Residual (schizophrenia)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
7. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; indicated by patterns of behaviour that violate rules - norms - or the rights of others
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
pyromania
Dependence
American Psychologist
8. 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
Alzheimer'S disease
Panic attack
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Disorganized behaviour
9. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Sleep terror
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Amnesia
Histrionic personality disorder
10. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Bipolar disorder
Psychological abstracts
Parkinson'S
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
11. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Hypersomnia
Dyssomnias
Schizoid personality disorder
12. 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
Schizoaffective disorder
compulsion
retrograde amnesia
Psychological abstracts
13. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Dependent personality disorder
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
14. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
retrograde amnesia
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Kleptomania
15. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
dopamine
Trichotillomania
16. 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
Community psychology
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Bipolar disorder
17. Many schizophrenic symptoms not fitting a particular type
Schizophrenia (onset)
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
pyromania
18. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Martin Seligman
Reactive schizophrenia
Residual (schizophrenia)
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
19. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Martin Seligman
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Fugue
Narcissistic personality disorder
20. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.
Dyssomnias
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Life event stress
Dependent personality disorder
21. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Elimination disorders
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
PsycINFO database
22. Schizophrenogenic mother
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Fromm and Reichamn
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
23. 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
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Somatic delusion
Echopraxia (catatonia)
24. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Phobia
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Tay-Sachs disease
Martin Seligman
25. 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
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Shared psychotic disorder
Anorexia nervosa
Dependence
26. Parroting
Anorexia nervosa
compulsion
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Echolalia (catatonia)
27. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Conversion disorder
pathological gambling
Delusions
Tardive dyskinesia
28. From vitamin B deficiency - loss of memory and orientation - often make up confabulations - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
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29. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Primary prevention
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
30. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
dopamine
Schizophrenia (types)
Psychological abstracts
Bipolar disorder
31. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
pathological gambling
Trichotillomania
American Psychology Association (APA)
32. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Developmental disorders
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Parasomnias
Grandiose delusion
33. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Health psychology
Learning disorders
34. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Echolalia (catatonia)
Reactive schizophrenia
Trichotillomania
American Psychology Association (APA)
35. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Tardive dyskinesia
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Tay-Sachs disease
36. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
anterograde amnesia
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
diathesis-stress theory
37. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
retrograde amnesia
Thomas Szasz
Down syndrome
Confabulations
38. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Kleptomania
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
pathological gambling
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
39. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Shared psychotic disorder
retrograde amnesia
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Generalized anxiety disorder
40. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Psychological abstracts
Culturally competent interventions
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
41. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
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42. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Martin Seligman
Hypersomnia
Amnesia
Elimination disorders
43. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Schizophrenia (description)
Hypersomnia
Schizotypal personality disorder
Social phobia
44. 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
pyromania
Agoraphobia
Health psychology
Down syndrome
45. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Hypersomnia
Alzheimer'S disease
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
46. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
dissociative Identity disorder
DSM (axes)
Schizophrenia (onset)
47. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
American Psychology Association (APA)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Kleptomania
Hypochondriasis
48. Erroneous or distorted thinking
compulsion
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Delusions
pyromania
49. 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
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Social phobia
Pick'S disease
50. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
pyromania
David Rosenhan
Sleep terror
Elimination disorders