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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
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Depressive realism
Narcissistic personality disorder
Anorexia nervosa
2. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Dyssomnias
3. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Community psychology
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
pathological gambling
Nightmare
4. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
5. 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
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Culturally competent interventions
Amnesia
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
6. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Schizotypal personality disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Hypochondriasis
7. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Grandiose delusion
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Tay-Sachs disease
8. Depression resulting from particular events - similar to Martin Seligman'S learned helplessness
Process schizophrenia
Primary prevention
Reactive depression
Conversion disorder
9. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Parasomnias
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Culturally competent interventions
Social phobia
10. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Borderline personality disorder
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
11. 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
Delirium
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Dependence
anterograde amnesia
12. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Hypochondriasis
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Reactive schizophrenia
Panic disorder
13. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Panic disorder
Parasomnias
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
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
Reactive schizophrenia
DSM (description & history)
Insomnia
Delusions
15. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Fugue
Specific phobia
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
16. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
pyromania
Avoidant personality disorder
Parkinson'S
17. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Bulimia nervosa
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
American Psychologist
18. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
pyromania
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Bipolar disorder
19. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
anterograde amnesia
Elimination disorders
20. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Huntington'S disease
Stanley Hall
Mental retardation
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
21. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Reactive depression
Agoraphobia
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Elimination disorders
22. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Delirium
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Bulimia nervosa
23. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Reactive schizophrenia
Narcolepsy
Mental retardation
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
24. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
Mental retardation
Delirium
dissociative Identity disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
25. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
American Psychologist
Down syndrome
Thomas Szasz
26. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Confabulations
Martin Seligman
Schizophrenia (onset)
Phobia
27. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Tay-Sachs disease
Cretinism
Paranoid personality disorder
28. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
dopamine
Panic disorder
Psychological abstracts
Dependence
29. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Negative symptoms
Schizophrenogenic mother
Residual (schizophrenia)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
30. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Martin Seligman
Manic symptoms
Shared psychotic disorder
31. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Negative symptoms
Shared psychotic disorder
Neuroleptic drugs
Tic disorders
32. 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
Community psychology
Generalized anxiety disorder
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Negative symptoms
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
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Parasomnias
Erotomanic delusion
Panic attack
34. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
35. 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
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Parasomnias
Histrionic personality disorder
Dementia
36. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Tic disorders
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
DSM (axes)
Trichotillomania
37. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Delusions
diathesis-stress theory
Process schizophrenia
38. 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)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Dependence
Histrionic personality disorder
39. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Martin Seligman
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
40. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Specific phobia
DSM (description & history)
Neuroleptic drugs
41. From thiamine deficiency - memory problems and eye dysfunctions - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
42. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Dependent personality disorder
Process schizophrenia
American Psychology Association (APA)
43. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Dysthymic disorder
Amphetamines
Phobia
44. Schizophrenogenic mother
Stanley Hall
Parkinson'S
Fromm and Reichamn
Factitious disorder (group 9)
45. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Avoidant personality disorder
Erotomanic delusion
Generalized anxiety disorder
Wernicke'S syndrome
46. 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
Obsession
Trichotillomania
David Rosenhan
Thomas Szasz
47. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Narcissistic personality disorder
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Elimination disorders
Stanley Hall
48. Persistent thoughts
PsycINFO database
dissociative Identity disorder
Obsession
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
49. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
David Rosenhan
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Confabulations
50. Imitating gestures of others
Cretinism
Depressive realism
Delirium
Echopraxia (catatonia)