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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. 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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2. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Neuroleptic drugs
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Fugue
3. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
Delusions
Narcissistic personality disorder
Delirium
Panic attack
4. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Bulimia nervosa
Narcolepsy
Delusions
Echolalia (catatonia)
5. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Psychological abstracts
Paranoid personality disorder
Dependent personality disorder
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
6. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Panic disorder
Parkinson'S
Reactive schizophrenia
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
7. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
pyromania
Conversion disorder
Panic attack
8. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Bipolar disorder
Schizophrenia (onset)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
9. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
compulsion
10. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Tardive dyskinesia
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Amnesia
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
11. Depression resulting from particular events - similar to Martin Seligman'S learned helplessness
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
American Psychology Association (APA)
Delusions
Reactive depression
12. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Disorganized behaviour
Confabulations
Nightmare
dopamine
13. One has special talent or status
Schizoid personality disorder
Grandiose delusion
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
14. Another person is in love with the individual
Dependence
Erotomanic delusion
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Stanley Hall
15. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Schizophrenia (description)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
American Psychologist
16. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Panic attack
Hypochondriasis
Specific phobia
Histrionic personality disorder
17. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Anorexia nervosa
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Amphetamines
Trichotillomania
18. Tremors with declining neurological functioning; caused by deficient dopamine activity - boost dopamine by drug such as levodopa
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19. 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
PsycINFO database
Life event stress
Confabulations
Primary prevention
20. 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
Borderline personality disorder
American Psychology Association (APA)
Neuroleptic drugs
21. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Schizoid personality disorder
Schizoaffective disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder
22. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
DSM (description & history)
Parkinson'S
Hypochondriasis
Neuroleptic drugs
23. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Somatic delusion
Schizoid personality disorder
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Anorexia nervosa
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
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Amphetamines
Culturally competent interventions
Confabulations
25. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Dependent personality disorder
Parkinson'S
DSM (axes)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
26. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Conversion disorder
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Somatic delusion
27. Inappropriate dress - agitation - shouting
Dyssomnias
Disorganized behaviour
anterograde amnesia
PsycINFO database
28. Type of mother who 'causes' children to become schizophrenic
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Cretinism
Schizophrenogenic mother
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
29. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
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30. 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
Bipolar disorder
Pick'S disease
Sleep terror
DSM (axes)
31. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Avoidant personality disorder
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Schizophrenia (onset)
32. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Negative symptoms
Sleep terror
American Psychologist
retrograde amnesia
33. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Parkinson'S
Culturally competent interventions
Paranoid personality disorder
34. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Amnesia
Schizophrenia (onset)
Paranoid personality disorder
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
35. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Schizotypal personality disorder
Schizophrenia (types)
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Nightmare
36. Perhaps use of neologisms
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Antisocial
diathesis-stress theory
37. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Parkinson'S
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
dopamine
Cretinism
38. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Trichotillomania
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
pathological gambling
Elimination disorders
39. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Confabulations
Panic disorder
Dyssomnias
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
40. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Nightmare
Dependent personality disorder
Dependence
41. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Schizophrenia (description)
Disorganized behaviour
Tay-Sachs disease
Delusional disorder
42. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Schizoaffective disorder
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Insomnia
43. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
Amphetamines
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
diathesis-stress theory
DSM (description & history)
44. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Hypersomnia
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Learning disorders
45. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
American Psychology Association (APA)
Disorganized behaviour
Parasomnias
Tardive dyskinesia
46. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Dementia
Echolalia (catatonia)
Tardive dyskinesia
47. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Generalized anxiety disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Psychological Bulletin
Amphetamines
48. Manifested by physical or bodily symptoms that cause reduced functioning; conversion disorder - hypochondriasis; formerly 'psychosomatic' disorders
Delusions
Stanley Hall
Narcolepsy
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
49. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Mental retardation
Process schizophrenia
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Phobia
50. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Cretinism
Insomnia
Primary prevention
Nightmare