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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. 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
Delirium
Mental retardation
Health psychology
Shared psychotic disorder
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
Panic attack
Hypersomnia
Thomas Szasz
Martin Seligman
3. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Parasomnias
Major depressive disorder
Thomas Szasz
4. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Paranoid personality disorder
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Fromm and Reichamn
Histrionic personality disorder
5. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Specific phobia
Reactive depression
pyromania
DSM (description & history)
6. Depression resulting from particular events - similar to Martin Seligman'S learned helplessness
Tardive dyskinesia
Hypochondriasis
Phobia
Reactive depression
7. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Fromm and Reichamn
pathological gambling
Manic symptoms
8. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Nightmare
Reactive schizophrenia
Learning disorders
Schizoaffective disorder
9. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Somatic delusion
Shared psychotic disorder
Hypochondriasis
Thomas Szasz
10. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Learning disorders
Borderline personality disorder
Amnesia
Post-traumatic stress disorder
11. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; indicated by patterns of behaviour that violate rules - norms - or the rights of others
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Schizoaffective disorder
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Psychological abstracts
12. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
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13. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Shared psychotic disorder
Panic attack
Schizoid personality disorder
Antisocial
14. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
Bulimia nervosa
Tay-Sachs disease
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
compulsion
15. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Delusions
Histrionic personality disorder
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Neuroleptic drugs
16. Perhaps use of neologisms
dissociative Identity disorder
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Fugue
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
17. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Life event stress
18. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
anterograde amnesia
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Confabulations
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
19. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Antisocial
Avoidant personality disorder
Narcolepsy
20. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Schizophrenia (description)
Negative symptoms
Parkinson'S
Amnesia
21. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Bulimia nervosa
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
22. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Fugue
Delirium
Fromm and Reichamn
Schizotypal personality disorder
23. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Sleep terror
Residual (schizophrenia)
24. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
Phobia
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Schizophrenia (onset)
Generalized anxiety disorder
25. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
compulsion
Delusional disorder
pyromania
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
26. 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
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Schizophrenogenic mother
Schizophrenia (types)
27. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Borderline personality disorder
Learning disorders
pathological gambling
28. Learned helplessness
American Psychology Association (APA)
Depressive realism
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Martin Seligman
29. Another person is in love with the individual
Abuse
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Erotomanic delusion
Flat affect
30. 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
Schizophrenia (types)
Parasomnias
Wernicke'S syndrome
Primary prevention
31. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Delirium
retrograde amnesia
Anorexia nervosa
Tay-Sachs disease
32. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Narcolepsy
Catalepsy (catatonia)
diathesis-stress theory
Fugue
33. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Fromm and Reichamn
Nightmare
Reactive schizophrenia
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
34. 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;
Huntington'S disease
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Agoraphobia
pyromania
35. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Psychological abstracts
Hypersomnia
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Delirium
36. Irresistible impulse to steal
Erotomanic delusion
Kleptomania
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
anterograde amnesia
37. 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)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Alzheimer'S disease
38. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
Conversion disorder
Pick'S disease
Schizoid personality disorder
Flat affect
39. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Conversion disorder
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
dissociative Identity disorder
40. 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
DSM (description & history)
Life event stress
Delirium
Psychological Bulletin
41. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Negative symptoms
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Dementia
Learning disorders
42. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
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43. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Phobia
Generalized anxiety disorder
Bipolar disorder
Grandiose delusion
44. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.
Abuse
Schizophrenia (onset)
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Dyssomnias
45. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Insomnia
Dysthymic disorder
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
46. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Pick'S disease
Schizoid personality disorder
Paranoid personality disorder
47. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Psychological Bulletin
Antisocial
Generalized anxiety disorder
Trichotillomania
48. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
Conversion disorder
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Dysthymic disorder
49. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Conversion disorder
Cretinism
Neuroleptic drugs
American Psychologist
50. Inappropriate dress - agitation - shouting
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Panic attack
Disorganized behaviour
Major depressive disorder