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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. 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
Psychological Bulletin
Anorexia nervosa
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Health psychology
2. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Schizophrenia (onset)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Learning disorders
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
3. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Schizophrenia (description)
Anorexia nervosa
Neuroleptic drugs
Schizophrenia (types)
4. 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;
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Abuse
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Schizophrenia (description)
5. 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
Stanley Hall
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Dementia
6. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
pyromania
Bulimia nervosa
Sleep terror
7. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Abuse
compulsion
Panic disorder
8. 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
Kleptomania
Narcolepsy
Schizophrenia (types)
9. Parroting
Histrionic personality disorder
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Down syndrome
Echolalia (catatonia)
10. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Grandiose delusion
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Thomas Szasz
11. From thiamine deficiency - memory problems and eye dysfunctions - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
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12. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Generalized anxiety disorder
Schizophrenia (types)
Insomnia
pathological gambling
13. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Generalized anxiety disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Down syndrome
14. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Mental retardation
Hypersomnia
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
15. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Social phobia
Disorganized behaviour
Echolalia (catatonia)
16. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Dependent personality disorder
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Tay-Sachs disease
17. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Pick'S disease
Process schizophrenia
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
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Down syndrome
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
19. 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
Neuroleptic drugs
Amnesia
Culturally competent interventions
diathesis-stress theory
20. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Fromm and Reichamn
Dependent personality disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder
21. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
DSM (axes)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Histrionic personality disorder
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
22. Hall; founded 1892; governing body of psychology; purpose to 'advance psychology as a science - as a profession - and as a means of promoting human welfare'
Anorexia nervosa
DSM (description & history)
Dependence
American Psychology Association (APA)
23. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
retrograde amnesia
24. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Specific phobia
Martin Seligman
Dyssomnias
Histrionic personality disorder
25. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Culturally competent interventions
Health psychology
compulsion
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
26. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
Schizophrenogenic mother
Conversion disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder
Tardive dyskinesia
27. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
anterograde amnesia
Tay-Sachs disease
Mental retardation
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
28. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
PsycINFO database
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
compulsion
29. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Dependent personality disorder
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Narcolepsy
30. Male with one Y and 2 X chromosomes - hypogonadism and reduced fertility; other physical and behavioural differences and problems with varying severity
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31. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Panic disorder
Disorganized behaviour
Schizophrenia (types)
Fugue
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
Reactive schizophrenia
Disorganized behaviour
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
33. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Grandiose delusion
Depressive realism
Huntington'S disease
34. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Borderline personality disorder
Psychological Bulletin
Specific phobia
Tardive dyskinesia
35. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Martin Seligman
Narcolepsy
Elimination disorders
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
36. One has special talent or status
dopamine
Delusional disorder
Grandiose delusion
Generalized anxiety disorder
37. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Negative symptoms
Social phobia
Pick'S disease
38. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Histrionic personality disorder
Major depressive disorder
Dependence
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
39. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Schizoid personality disorder
Dependent personality disorder
Phobia
Alzheimer'S disease
40. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Elimination disorders
Dysthymic disorder
Dependence
41. 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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42. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Schizophrenia (onset)
Tic disorders
Reactive depression
Panic attack
43. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Parasomnias
Tic disorders
Borderline personality disorder
44. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Schizoaffective disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
45. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Borderline personality disorder
Shared psychotic disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Amphetamines
46. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Wernicke'S syndrome
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Community psychology
Delusions
47. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Negative symptoms
Agoraphobia
Shared psychotic disorder
Pick'S disease
48. 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
Hypochondriasis
DSM (axes)
Community psychology
David Rosenhan
49. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
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50. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Neuroleptic drugs
Psychological Bulletin
Parkinson'S
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