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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Another person is in love with the individual
Fugue
Fromm and Reichamn
Dyssomnias
Erotomanic delusion
2. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Narcissistic personality disorder
Learning disorders
Mental retardation
David Rosenhan
3. 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
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Culturally competent interventions
Cretinism
Factitious disorder (group 9)
4. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
pyromania
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Paranoid personality disorder
Amnesia
5. Persistent thoughts
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Obsession
Anorexia nervosa
Community psychology
6. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia
Down syndrome
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
dopamine
7. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Amphetamines
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Schizophrenia (description)
Paranoid personality disorder
8. Fear of a situation that might arise panic symptoms - and escape would be difficult; usually fear and avoidance of being outside the home or in crowds
Amphetamines
Residual (schizophrenia)
Agoraphobia
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
9. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
Shared psychotic disorder
diathesis-stress theory
Dependence
Thomas Szasz
10. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Antisocial
Major depressive disorder
Reactive depression
11. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
dopamine
Schizophrenia (description)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Stanley Hall
12. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Tic disorders
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
13. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; indicated by patterns of behaviour that violate rules - norms - or the rights of others
Obsession
Martin Seligman
Amphetamines
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
14. 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
Obsession
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Insomnia
Post-traumatic stress disorder
15. Index published by APA - found at most major libraries; montly compilation of 'nonevaluative summaries of the world'S literature in psychology'; in each issue - article abstracts arranged by topic; hardcopy version of PsycINFO
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Hypochondriasis
Primary prevention
Psychological abstracts
16. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Developmental disorders
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
17. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Developmental disorders
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Neuroleptic drugs
Confabulations
18. 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
Confabulations
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Hypochondriasis
Narcolepsy
19. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Bulimia nervosa
Learning disorders
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
20. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger
Abuse
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Borderline personality disorder
Reactive schizophrenia
21. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
dopamine
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Somatic delusion
Hypochondriasis
22. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
anterograde amnesia
Delusions
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Anorexia nervosa
23. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Elimination disorders
Grandiose delusion
Psychological abstracts
24. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
American Psychologist
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Avoidant personality disorder
25. 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
Dependence
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Major depressive disorder
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
26. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Conversion disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
27. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
anterograde amnesia
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Delusions
Borderline personality disorder
28. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Panic disorder
Trichotillomania
Primary prevention
Flat affect
29. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Echolalia (catatonia)
Mental retardation
retrograde amnesia
Wernicke'S syndrome
30. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Elimination disorders
Learning disorders
Catalepsy (catatonia)
31. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
Dyssomnias
Hypochondriasis
Delusional disorder
Dementia
32. Irresistible impulse to set fires
pyromania
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
retrograde amnesia
Flat affect
33. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Kleptomania
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Erotomanic delusion
Echolalia (catatonia)
34. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Narcolepsy
Schizophrenia (description)
Schizoaffective disorder
Reactive depression
35. Perhaps use of neologisms
Abuse
Delirium
Schizotypal personality disorder
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
36. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Learning disorders
Tic disorders
Huntington'S disease
Delusions
37. 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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38. Imitating gestures of others
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Process schizophrenia
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
39. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Reactive depression
Grandiose delusion
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
40. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Nightmare
Fugue
Reactive schizophrenia
diathesis-stress theory
41. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Wernicke'S syndrome
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
42. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
anterograde amnesia
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Community psychology
Social phobia
43. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Psychological Bulletin
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
retrograde amnesia
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
44. Tremors with declining neurological functioning; caused by deficient dopamine activity - boost dopamine by drug such as levodopa
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45. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
Thomas Szasz
Dependent personality disorder
Abuse
Amnesia
46. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Somatic delusion
Echolalia (catatonia)
Confabulations
47. 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
Residual (schizophrenia)
Schizophrenia (types)
Dementia
Trichotillomania
48. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
Schizophrenia (onset)
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Disorganized behaviour
Psychological abstracts
49. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Anorexia nervosa
Schizophrenia (etiology)
anterograde amnesia
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
50. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Dependence
Psychological Bulletin