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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Schizoaffective disorder
Residual (schizophrenia)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Generalized anxiety disorder
2. 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'
American Psychology Association (APA)
Shared psychotic disorder
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Schizoid personality disorder
3. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Hypersomnia
Learning disorders
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
4. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger
dissociative Identity disorder
Abuse
Elimination disorders
Specific phobia
5. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Reactive depression
American Psychologist
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Schizophrenia (etiology)
6. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Mental retardation
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
7. 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
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Tay-Sachs disease
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Culturally competent interventions
8. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
DSM (description & history)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Thomas Szasz
Neuroleptic drugs
9. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Primary prevention
Paranoid personality disorder
Manic symptoms
Delusions
10. Schizophrenogenic mother
Phobia
Fromm and Reichamn
Schizophrenia (description)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
11. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Nightmare
Post-traumatic stress disorder
compulsion
12. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
Schizophrenia (onset)
DSM (description & history)
Tardive dyskinesia
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
13. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Culturally competent interventions
Schizophrenia (description)
14. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Dysthymic disorder
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Obsession
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
15. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Delusions
Schizophrenia (types)
Specific phobia
16. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
Process schizophrenia
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
17. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Avoidant personality disorder
Martin Seligman
Reactive schizophrenia
Life event stress
18. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Schizophrenia (types)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Mental retardation
dopamine
19. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Fromm and Reichamn
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Hypersomnia
Delusional disorder
20. 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
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
retrograde amnesia
Psychological abstracts
21. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Tay-Sachs disease
Developmental disorders
22. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.
Panic attack
Avoidant personality disorder
Dyssomnias
PsycINFO database
23. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
Bulimia nervosa
American Psychologist
dissociative Identity disorder
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
24. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Fugue
Huntington'S disease
Panic attack
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
25. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Delusions
DSM (description & history)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
26. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Echolalia (catatonia)
Psychological abstracts
Specific phobia
Life event stress
27. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Dependence
Sleep terror
Schizoaffective disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
28. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Tic disorders
Somatic delusion
Tay-Sachs disease
29. Persistent thoughts
Obsession
Bipolar disorder
Kleptomania
Life event stress
30. 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
David Rosenhan
Culturally competent interventions
Health psychology
Dependence
31. 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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32. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Amnesia
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Somatic delusion
33. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
compulsion
Schizoid personality disorder
Reactive depression
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
34. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Paranoid personality disorder
Martin Seligman
Histrionic personality disorder
Kleptomania
35. From thiamine deficiency - memory problems and eye dysfunctions - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
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36. Depression resulting from particular events - similar to Martin Seligman'S learned helplessness
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Reactive depression
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
37. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Amnesia
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Delirium
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
38. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
compulsion
retrograde amnesia
Reactive depression
Dyssomnias
39. Falling asleep uncontrollably during routine daily activity
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Narcolepsy
Bulimia nervosa
Trichotillomania
40. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Depressive realism
Narcolepsy
Schizophrenia (types)
Conversion disorder
41. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
Delusional disorder
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
pathological gambling
Korsakoff'S syndrome
42. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Thomas Szasz
Schizoaffective disorder
Bipolar disorder
Sleep terror
43. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
dissociative Identity disorder
Learning disorders
Dependence
44. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Abuse
Conversion disorder
Specific phobia
Psychological Bulletin
45. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
pyromania
Dependent personality disorder
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Negative symptoms
46. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Thomas Szasz
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Negative symptoms
47. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia
Wernicke'S syndrome
Trichotillomania
dopamine
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
48. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Conversion disorder
Phobia
49. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
DSM (axes)
Schizophrenogenic mother
Hypersomnia
50. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Residual (schizophrenia)
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
retrograde amnesia