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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
American Psychology Association (APA)
Anorexia nervosa
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
2. Psychology taken into community (community centres or schools) rather than individuals go to clinics and universities; emphasizes respect - recognizes logistics that keep needy people from seeking help
Huntington'S disease
Primary prevention
Community psychology
Panic attack
3. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
4. Perhaps use of neologisms
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
pathological gambling
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
5. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
compulsion
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Psychological abstracts
6. 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
PsycINFO database
Tardive dyskinesia
Process schizophrenia
Psychological abstracts
7. Schizophrenogenic mother
Panic attack
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Fromm and Reichamn
Klinefelter'S syndrome
8. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
DSM (description & history)
Social phobia
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Trichotillomania
9. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Flat affect
Schizotypal personality disorder
Schizophrenia (onset)
10. 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
Conversion disorder
Parkinson'S
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
11. 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
Fugue
Dementia
Cretinism
Histrionic personality disorder
12. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
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13. Depressive episode by depressed mood - loss of interests - changes in weight or sleep - low energy - feelings of worthlessness - or thoughts of death; symptoms are present nearly every day for at least two weeks; females 2x likelier to be diagnosed;
Abuse
Disorganized behaviour
Major depressive disorder
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
14. 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)
Delusions
Thomas Szasz
Mental retardation
15. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Paranoid personality disorder
dopamine
Borderline personality disorder
16. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Amnesia
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Psychological Bulletin
17. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Manic symptoms
Specific phobia
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
pathological gambling
18. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
Parkinson'S
Wernicke'S syndrome
Tardive dyskinesia
anterograde amnesia
19. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Parkinson'S
Amphetamines
Down syndrome
20. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Manic symptoms
anterograde amnesia
21. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Bulimia nervosa
Reactive depression
Parasomnias
Borderline personality disorder
22. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Narcissistic personality disorder
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Parasomnias
23. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Borderline personality disorder
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
24. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Parkinson'S
Mental retardation
Trichotillomania
25. 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;
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
26. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
diathesis-stress theory
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Echolalia (catatonia)
Parkinson'S
27. Another person is in love with the individual
Erotomanic delusion
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Manic symptoms
pyromania
28. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Dysthymic disorder
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Tardive dyskinesia
Parasomnias
29. Learned helplessness
Martin Seligman
Psychological Bulletin
Tic disorders
DSM (axes)
30. 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
compulsion
Elimination disorders
Confabulations
31. 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
Thomas Szasz
Psychological Bulletin
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Wernicke'S syndrome
32. Falling asleep uncontrollably during routine daily activity
Narcolepsy
retrograde amnesia
Somatic delusion
Dyssomnias
33. Many schizophrenic symptoms not fitting a particular type
Tic disorders
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
34. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal
Nightmare
Cretinism
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Schizoaffective disorder
35. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Neuroleptic drugs
compulsion
Delusions
36. Excessive sleepiness
Learning disorders
Martin Seligman
Hypersomnia
Amphetamines
37. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Borderline personality disorder
Psychological Bulletin
Thomas Szasz
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
38. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Thomas Szasz
DSM (axes)
Agoraphobia
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
39. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Schizoaffective disorder
dissociative Identity disorder
40. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
Nightmare
Stanley Hall
compulsion
Elimination disorders
41. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Shared psychotic disorder
Schizophrenia (description)
diathesis-stress theory
Nightmare
42. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
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43. 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
Schizoaffective disorder
Antisocial
Shared psychotic disorder
44. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Dyssomnias
45. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Borderline personality disorder
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Factitious disorder (group 9)
46. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Life event stress
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Confabulations
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
47. 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
Schizophrenia (onset)
Specific phobia
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Narcolepsy
48. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Schizoid personality disorder
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
49. Most common cause of mental retardation - results from trisomy of chromosome 21; older women have a greater chance of having a baby with Down syndrome
anterograde amnesia
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Down syndrome
Narcolepsy
50. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
compulsion
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Delusional disorder