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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
Parasomnias
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
DSM (axes)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
2. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Learning disorders
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Elimination disorders
Sleep terror
3. 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
Reactive schizophrenia
Health psychology
Primary prevention
Dependence
4. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
Delirium
Dependence
dopamine
Process schizophrenia
5. Schizophrenogenic mother
Schizophrenia (types)
Schizophrenia (description)
Pick'S disease
Fromm and Reichamn
6. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Avoidant personality disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
7. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
David Rosenhan
Schizophrenogenic mother
Tic disorders
Erotomanic delusion
8. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Amphetamines
Alzheimer'S disease
Confabulations
9. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Tardive dyskinesia
retrograde amnesia
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
10. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Echolalia (catatonia)
Cretinism
Amnesia
Life event stress
11. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
American Psychologist
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
12. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Mental retardation
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Tay-Sachs disease
13. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Panic attack
Schizoaffective disorder
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
14. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Dementia
Down syndrome
15. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Schizophrenia (description)
Mental retardation
Erotomanic delusion
Wernicke'S syndrome
16. Learned helplessness
pyromania
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Stanley Hall
Martin Seligman
17. 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
Panic attack
pyromania
Tardive dyskinesia
diathesis-stress theory
18. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
pathological gambling
Cretinism
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
19. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Nightmare
Dysthymic disorder
Depressive realism
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
20. 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'
American Psychology Association (APA)
Echolalia (catatonia)
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Histrionic personality disorder
21. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Nightmare
Fugue
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Schizophrenia (etiology)
22. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
anterograde amnesia
Anorexia nervosa
Paranoid personality disorder
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
23. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Panic attack
Parasomnias
Learning disorders
Histrionic personality disorder
24. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Dyssomnias
Reactive schizophrenia
Dementia
25. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
Thomas Szasz
Panic attack
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Abuse
26. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Schizophrenia (onset)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
pathological gambling
Insomnia
27. 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
Down syndrome
Process schizophrenia
compulsion
DSM (axes)
28. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Paranoid personality disorder
Social phobia
Negative symptoms
Elimination disorders
29. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Hypochondriasis
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
30. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Major depressive disorder
Learning disorders
Martin Seligman
Tardive dyskinesia
31. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
retrograde amnesia
32. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Cretinism
Bipolar disorder
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Delirium
33. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Negative symptoms
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Tay-Sachs disease
34. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Hypersomnia
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Panic disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
35. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
Process schizophrenia
Panic disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Confabulations
36. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Parasomnias
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Fromm and Reichamn
37. Falling asleep uncontrollably during routine daily activity
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Narcolepsy
diathesis-stress theory
Sleep terror
38. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Panic disorder
Confabulations
Schizoid personality disorder
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
39. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Hypochondriasis
Schizophrenia (description)
Generalized anxiety disorder
40. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Insomnia
Amnesia
Dyssomnias
41. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Wernicke'S syndrome
Tardive dyskinesia
DSM (description & history)
Residual (schizophrenia)
42. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
PsycINFO database
diathesis-stress theory
Pick'S disease
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
43. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; indicated by patterns of behaviour that violate rules - norms - or the rights of others
compulsion
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Borderline personality disorder
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
44. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania
Fromm and Reichamn
Obsession
Negative symptoms
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
45. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Fromm and Reichamn
Tardive dyskinesia
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Mental retardation
46. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Reactive schizophrenia
Depressive realism
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Neuroleptic drugs
47. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Alzheimer'S disease
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
anterograde amnesia
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
48. Perhaps use of neologisms
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
retrograde amnesia
49. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Psychological Bulletin
Specific phobia
American Psychologist
Borderline personality disorder
50. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Schizophrenogenic mother
Panic disorder
Confabulations
dissociative Identity disorder