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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. 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
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
DSM (description & history)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Korsakoff'S syndrome
2. 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
dissociative Identity disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Fugue
Panic attack
3. Parroting
Specific phobia
Paranoid personality disorder
Community psychology
Echolalia (catatonia)
4. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Anorexia nervosa
Parasomnias
Fugue
Delusions
5. Absence of appropriate emotion
DSM (description & history)
Flat affect
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
6. 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;
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
7. Studied effect of diagnostic labels on perception of behaviour; experiment of normal pseudopatients feigned disorders - once in hospital - individuals acted normally - but behaviours construed as fitting the diagnosis anyway
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Developmental disorders
Health psychology
David Rosenhan
8. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Stanley Hall
Health psychology
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
9. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia
American Psychology Association (APA)
dopamine
Disorganized behaviour
Paranoid personality disorder
10. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Schizophrenogenic mother
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
11. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Thomas Szasz
Sleep terror
Trichotillomania
Generalized anxiety disorder
12. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
Delirium
Amphetamines
Schizophrenia (onset)
Culturally competent interventions
13. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Depressive realism
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Anorexia nervosa
14. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Residual (schizophrenia)
Social phobia
Paranoid personality disorder
dopamine
15. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Schizophrenogenic mother
Schizophrenia (types)
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
16. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
David Rosenhan
Delusions
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Generalized anxiety disorder
17. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
Schizophrenia (onset)
Dementia
Somatic delusion
Factitious disorder (group 9)
18. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
anterograde amnesia
Schizoaffective disorder
Dyssomnias
Residual (schizophrenia)
19. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Psychological Bulletin
Narcissistic personality disorder
Nightmare
Korsakoff'S syndrome
20. 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)
Sleep terror
Schizophrenia (description)
Specific phobia
21. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
American Psychologist
Narcissistic personality disorder
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
22. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Flat affect
Tic disorders
Schizoid personality disorder
23. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Schizophrenia (types)
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Schizophrenia (description)
24. 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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25. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Dependent personality disorder
Erotomanic delusion
Mental retardation
26. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Panic disorder
Parkinson'S
27. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Borderline personality disorder
retrograde amnesia
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Neuroleptic drugs
28. Schizophrenogenic mother
anterograde amnesia
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Fromm and Reichamn
29. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Pick'S disease
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
30. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Parasomnias
Reactive schizophrenia
Martin Seligman
Community psychology
31. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
32. Inappropriate dress - agitation - shouting
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Amnesia
Abuse
Disorganized behaviour
33. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
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34. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Bipolar disorder
Cretinism
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Community psychology
35. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Fugue
Schizophrenia (description)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Avoidant personality disorder
36. Psychology taken into community (community centres or schools) rather than individuals go to clinics and universities; emphasizes respect - recognizes logistics that keep needy people from seeking help
Schizoid personality disorder
Bipolar disorder
Community psychology
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
37. Perhaps use of neologisms
Insomnia
Social phobia
Parasomnias
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
38. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Wernicke'S syndrome
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
39. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Neuroleptic drugs
DSM (axes)
retrograde amnesia
Health psychology
40. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Learning disorders
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Trichotillomania
41. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Delusions
dopamine
Shared psychotic disorder
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
42. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Manic symptoms
Bulimia nervosa
Catalepsy (catatonia)
43. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Bulimia nervosa
Somatic delusion
Fugue
Amnesia
44. Most common cause of mental retardation - results from trisomy of chromosome 21; older women have a greater chance of having a baby with Down syndrome
Dysthymic disorder
Life event stress
Down syndrome
Echopraxia (catatonia)
45. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Mental retardation
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Culturally competent interventions
46. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Flat affect
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Grandiose delusion
47. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Fugue
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
48. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Avoidant personality disorder
Learning disorders
49. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Hypersomnia
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Avoidant personality disorder
Schizophrenia (description)
50. Imitating gestures of others
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Reactive depression
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