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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive






2. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function






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






4. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder






5. Frequently treated with anxiolytics






6. Parroting






7. Anxiety around social or performance situations






8. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)






9. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal






10. 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






11. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25






12. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)






13. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger






14. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated






15. 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






16. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem






17. Irrational concern about having a serious disease






18. 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'






19. Irresistible impulse to steal






20. 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






21. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms






22. Imitating gestures of others






23. Learned helplessness






24. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism






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


26. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect






27. Motor immobility or waxy figure






28. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts






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






30. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome






31. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social






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






33. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ






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






35. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma






36. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)






37. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares






38. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder






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






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


41. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder






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






43. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization






44. Erroneous or distorted thinking






45. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania






46. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing






47. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.






48. 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;






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






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