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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Tic disorders
Paranoid personality disorder
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
retrograde amnesia
2. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Histrionic personality disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Narcolepsy
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
3. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Nightmare
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Shared psychotic disorder
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
4. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Depressive realism
Histrionic personality disorder
Trichotillomania
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
5. 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
Parkinson'S
Primary prevention
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Schizoaffective disorder
6. 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
Agoraphobia
Schizophrenia (onset)
DSM (axes)
American Psychologist
7. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Tic disorders
Somatic delusion
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
8. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Dependence
Somatic delusion
Bipolar disorder
Parkinson'S
9. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
diathesis-stress theory
Depressive realism
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
10. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Developmental disorders
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Anorexia nervosa
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
11. One has special talent or status
Dependent personality disorder
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Abuse
Grandiose delusion
12. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Depressive realism
Developmental disorders
Avoidant personality disorder
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
13. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
American Psychologist
Amphetamines
Shared psychotic disorder
Bipolar disorder
14. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Borderline personality disorder
Dementia
retrograde amnesia
Alzheimer'S disease
15. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Narcolepsy
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
PsycINFO database
Residual (schizophrenia)
16. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
Obsession
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Residual (schizophrenia)
Schizoid personality disorder
17. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Psychological Bulletin
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Psychological abstracts
18. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
diathesis-stress theory
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Parkinson'S
Confabulations
19. 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;
Avoidant personality disorder
Delirium
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Psychological abstracts
20. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Confabulations
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
DSM (description & history)
Reactive depression
21. 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
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Down syndrome
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Panic disorder
22. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Flat affect
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Mental retardation
Schizophrenogenic mother
23. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Huntington'S disease
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
American Psychologist
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
24. 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
Agoraphobia
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Dysthymic disorder
Dyssomnias
25. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Psychological Bulletin
Nightmare
compulsion
Narcolepsy
26. 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
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Insomnia
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
27. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Disorganized behaviour
Dependence
diathesis-stress theory
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
28. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Schizotypal personality disorder
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Phobia
29. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Manic symptoms
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
pyromania
Down syndrome
30. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Disorganized behaviour
Fugue
Tay-Sachs disease
31. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Dementia
Dysthymic disorder
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
32. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Insomnia
Dysthymic disorder
compulsion
Psychological Bulletin
33. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Histrionic personality disorder
Sleep terror
Delusional disorder
pyromania
34. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Process schizophrenia
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Learning disorders
Residual (schizophrenia)
35. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Narcissistic personality disorder
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Phobia
36. Studies biological - behavioural and social impacts on health and illness; Important finding: increased stress leads to higher likelihood of sickness - social support is associated with better health outcomes
Health psychology
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Elimination disorders
Schizophrenogenic mother
37. From vitamin B deficiency - loss of memory and orientation - often make up confabulations - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
38. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.
Panic disorder
Dyssomnias
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Amnesia
39. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Hypochondriasis
Dyssomnias
Dependent personality disorder
Psychological Bulletin
40. Male with one Y and 2 X chromosomes - hypogonadism and reduced fertility; other physical and behavioural differences and problems with varying severity
41. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Cretinism
42. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Tay-Sachs disease
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Insomnia
43. 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;
Fromm and Reichamn
Major depressive disorder
compulsion
Schizoaffective disorder
44. Persistent thoughts
Obsession
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Antisocial
45. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Wernicke'S syndrome
Delirium
Nightmare
Borderline personality disorder
46. Absence of appropriate emotion
Flat affect
Histrionic personality disorder
Reactive depression
Factitious disorder (group 9)
47. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Negative symptoms
pyromania
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
48. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
pyromania
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
49. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
50. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Abuse
Prominent posturing (catatonia)