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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Schizophrenia (etiology)
pathological gambling
Amnesia
2. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Process schizophrenia
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Echolalia (catatonia)
3. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
Echolalia (catatonia)
Delusional disorder
Bulimia nervosa
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
4. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Disorganized behaviour
David Rosenhan
American Psychologist
Paranoid personality disorder
5. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Residual (schizophrenia)
American Psychology Association (APA)
pyromania
6. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Generalized anxiety disorder
7. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Schizotypal personality disorder
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Fugue
8. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Trichotillomania
Community psychology
Insomnia
Panic disorder
9. From thiamine deficiency - memory problems and eye dysfunctions - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
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10. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Psychological Bulletin
American Psychologist
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
11. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Panic disorder
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
12. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Confabulations
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Bulimia nervosa
13. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Amnesia
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Pick'S disease
PsycINFO database
14. Imitating gestures of others
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Schizophrenia (description)
15. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Parkinson'S
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
16. 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
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Major depressive disorder
American Psychologist
17. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
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18. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Process schizophrenia
Community psychology
Manic symptoms
Hypersomnia
19. 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
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Dependence
pyromania
PsycINFO database
20. Perhaps use of neologisms
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Hypochondriasis
pathological gambling
21. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
Wernicke'S syndrome
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Phobia
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
22. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Schizoid personality disorder
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Psychological Bulletin
23. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Antisocial
Nightmare
Panic attack
compulsion
24. Treatment/prevention programs that recognize and tailor to cultural differences; therapists beginning to be trained in customs and norms of various cultures to minimize Eurocentric bias and assumptions
Schizophrenia (description)
Culturally competent interventions
dissociative Identity disorder
Tic disorders
25. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Stanley Hall
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Schizophrenia (description)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
26. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Bipolar disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
Neuroleptic drugs
American Psychology Association (APA)
27. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
Schizoid personality disorder
diathesis-stress theory
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
anterograde amnesia
28. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Neuroleptic drugs
Tay-Sachs disease
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
retrograde amnesia
29. Irresistible impulse to steal
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Obsession
retrograde amnesia
Kleptomania
30. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Tay-Sachs disease
Delirium
Confabulations
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
31. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Shared psychotic disorder
Somatic delusion
Schizoid personality disorder
American Psychology Association (APA)
32. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Residual (schizophrenia)
Depressive realism
Thomas Szasz
Flat affect
33. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Reactive depression
retrograde amnesia
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
34. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Pick'S disease
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Learning disorders
Parasomnias
35. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Psychological Bulletin
Schizoaffective disorder
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Down syndrome
36. Online format of Psychological Abstracts; access all psychology abstracts catalogued under search
PsycINFO database
Anorexia nervosa
Amphetamines
Parasomnias
37. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Narcolepsy
Factitious disorder (group 9)
pyromania
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
38. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
David Rosenhan
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
American Psychologist
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
39. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
Community psychology
Parkinson'S
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Conversion disorder
40. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Histrionic personality disorder
Insomnia
Down syndrome
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
41. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Parasomnias
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Agoraphobia
pathological gambling
42. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Stanley Hall
Psychological Bulletin
Histrionic personality disorder
43. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
anterograde amnesia
Kleptomania
Life event stress
Developmental disorders
44. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Narcolepsy
Dependence
45. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia
Fromm and Reichamn
Schizophrenogenic mother
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
dopamine
46. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
compulsion
Catalepsy (catatonia)
dopamine
Confabulations
47. 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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48. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
PsycINFO database
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Major depressive disorder
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
49. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
Huntington'S disease
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Dependent personality disorder
dissociative Identity disorder
50. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Agoraphobia
Amphetamines
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)