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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Alzheimer'S disease
Disorganized behaviour
Generalized anxiety disorder
Manic symptoms
2. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Schizoaffective disorder
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Phobia
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
3. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Dependent personality disorder
Life event stress
Community psychology
Elimination disorders
4. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Obsession
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Residual (schizophrenia)
5. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
dopamine
Down syndrome
6. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
retrograde amnesia
Echolalia (catatonia)
Somatic delusion
7. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
American Psychologist
compulsion
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
8. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Neuroleptic drugs
Sleep terror
Residual (schizophrenia)
Reactive schizophrenia
9. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Mental retardation
pyromania
Flat affect
Insomnia
10. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania
Hypersomnia
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
11. Inappropriate dress - agitation - shouting
Manic symptoms
Disorganized behaviour
Elimination disorders
Delirium
12. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
DSM (axes)
Nightmare
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Panic attack
13. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Erotomanic delusion
Hypochondriasis
Depressive realism
Parasomnias
14. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Bipolar disorder
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Agoraphobia
15. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
DSM (description & history)
Shared psychotic disorder
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Depressive realism
16. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Borderline personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Amphetamines
17. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
PsycINFO database
Amnesia
Reactive schizophrenia
Life event stress
18. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Bulimia nervosa
Process schizophrenia
Borderline personality disorder
anterograde amnesia
19. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Depressive realism
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Specific phobia
Schizotypal personality disorder
20. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
PsycINFO database
diathesis-stress theory
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Flat affect
21. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Abuse
Amphetamines
Residual (schizophrenia)
Stanley Hall
22. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Pick'S disease
compulsion
Dysthymic disorder
Down syndrome
23. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
American Psychology Association (APA)
compulsion
Developmental disorders
Life event stress
24. 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;
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Developmental disorders
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Huntington'S disease
25. Exposure to trauma that results in decreased ability to function and recurrent thoughts and anxiety about the incident; often linked to war veterans or victims of violence
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Process schizophrenia
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
26. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
American Psychologist
Amnesia
27. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
dissociative Identity disorder
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Flat affect
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
28. Another person is in love with the individual
Schizophrenia (description)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Reactive schizophrenia
Erotomanic delusion
29. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Primary prevention
Process schizophrenia
30. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Stanley Hall
Echopraxia (catatonia)
anterograde amnesia
Histrionic personality disorder
31. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger
Abuse
Amphetamines
Grandiose delusion
Social phobia
32. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Abuse
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
33. 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
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Panic attack
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
34. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Social phobia
Anorexia nervosa
Thomas Szasz
Insomnia
35. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
36. Excessive sleepiness
Hypersomnia
Delirium
Developmental disorders
Erotomanic delusion
37. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Agoraphobia
Mental retardation
Schizophrenia (etiology)
38. 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
Schizotypal personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder
Culturally competent interventions
Developmental disorders
39. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Somatic delusion
Schizophrenia (onset)
Down syndrome
40. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Specific phobia
Schizophrenia (description)
Trichotillomania
Schizophrenogenic mother
41. 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
DSM (description & history)
David Rosenhan
Generalized anxiety disorder
Delusions
42. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Schizophrenia (onset)
Depressive realism
pathological gambling
Insomnia
43. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Confabulations
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Narcolepsy
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
44. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
American Psychologist
Negative symptoms
Social phobia
Shared psychotic disorder
45. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Mental retardation
Phobia
Dementia
Schizophrenia (onset)
46. Depression resulting from particular events - similar to Martin Seligman'S learned helplessness
Reactive depression
Primary prevention
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Elimination disorders
47. 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
Nightmare
Bipolar disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
DSM (description & history)
48. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Insomnia
Anorexia nervosa
retrograde amnesia
Martin Seligman
49. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Schizophrenia (types)
pyromania
Paranoid personality disorder
Hypochondriasis
50. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Delusional disorder
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Parasomnias