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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Down syndrome
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
DSM (axes)
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
2. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Parasomnias
Major depressive disorder
Cretinism
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
3. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Residual (schizophrenia)
Tay-Sachs disease
Delusions
Schizophrenia (types)
4. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Manic symptoms
Avoidant personality disorder
Flat affect
Bulimia nervosa
5. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Schizophrenia (onset)
Wernicke'S syndrome
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
6. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Nightmare
dissociative Identity disorder
Pick'S disease
7. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
PsycINFO database
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Delirium
Post-traumatic stress disorder
8. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Major depressive disorder
Sleep terror
Residual (schizophrenia)
Korsakoff'S syndrome
9. Absence of appropriate emotion
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
American Psychologist
Manic symptoms
Flat affect
10. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Negative symptoms
Insomnia
Obsession
Psychological abstracts
11. 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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12. 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
Neuroleptic drugs
Health psychology
Parkinson'S
Schizophrenia (description)
13. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
anterograde amnesia
PsycINFO database
Parkinson'S
Delusional disorder
14. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Hypochondriasis
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Histrionic personality disorder
Specific phobia
15. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Schizophrenia (onset)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
16. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
Antisocial
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
diathesis-stress theory
17. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
compulsion
anterograde amnesia
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
diathesis-stress theory
18. 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
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Community psychology
pathological gambling
Schizophrenia (onset)
19. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Stanley Hall
Borderline personality disorder
Hypochondriasis
Agoraphobia
20. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Schizophrenia (types)
Confabulations
Panic disorder
21. 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
David Rosenhan
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Narcissistic personality disorder
Learning disorders
22. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Negative symptoms
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
23. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Nightmare
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Insomnia
Agoraphobia
24. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Shared psychotic disorder
Parasomnias
Dysthymic disorder
25. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Shared psychotic disorder
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Hypersomnia
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
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
Depressive realism
Somatic delusion
Panic attack
Hypersomnia
27. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Negative symptoms
Tay-Sachs disease
28. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Dysthymic disorder
Psychological abstracts
Bipolar disorder
29. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Community psychology
Histrionic personality disorder
Schizophrenia (description)
diathesis-stress theory
30. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
American Psychologist
Mental retardation
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Stanley Hall
31. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Narcolepsy
PsycINFO database
Mental retardation
dissociative Identity disorder
32. Tremors with declining neurological functioning; caused by deficient dopamine activity - boost dopamine by drug such as levodopa
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33. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; indicated by patterns of behaviour that violate rules - norms - or the rights of others
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Reactive schizophrenia
34. Persistent thoughts
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Developmental disorders
Paranoid personality disorder
Obsession
35. Irresistible impulse to steal
Panic disorder
Kleptomania
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
American Psychology Association (APA)
36. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
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37. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Schizophrenia (types)
retrograde amnesia
Grandiose delusion
PsycINFO database
38. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
Thomas Szasz
Panic disorder
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Insomnia
39. Depression resulting from particular events - similar to Martin Seligman'S learned helplessness
Delusional disorder
Parasomnias
Schizoaffective disorder
Reactive depression
40. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
Developmental disorders
Amphetamines
Paranoid personality disorder
Schizophrenia (etiology)
41. 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;
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
42. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Developmental disorders
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
43. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Process schizophrenia
Social phobia
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
44. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Thomas Szasz
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
dissociative Identity disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
45. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Abuse
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Developmental disorders
Fromm and Reichamn
46. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
Process schizophrenia
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Health psychology
Dysthymic disorder
47. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Histrionic personality disorder
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
American Psychology Association (APA)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
48. 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
Flat affect
Panic attack
DSM (description & history)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
49. Learned helplessness
Martin Seligman
anterograde amnesia
Delusions
Kleptomania
50. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Conversion disorder
Phobia
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)