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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Hypersomnia
Generalized anxiety disorder
Panic disorder
2. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Neuroleptic drugs
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
dissociative Identity disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
3. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Thomas Szasz
Cretinism
Community psychology
Fugue
4. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Alzheimer'S disease
American Psychologist
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
5. Online format of Psychological Abstracts; access all psychology abstracts catalogued under search
Flat affect
Dependence
PsycINFO database
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
6. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Bipolar disorder
Phobia
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Mental retardation
7. 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
Developmental disorders
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Martin Seligman
Dependence
8. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
American Psychologist
Narcolepsy
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Korsakoff'S syndrome
9. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.
DSM (axes)
Dyssomnias
Anorexia nervosa
Major depressive disorder
10. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Flat affect
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Mental retardation
11. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
Hypochondriasis
Huntington'S disease
Developmental disorders
PsycINFO database
12. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Dependence
Amnesia
Schizotypal personality disorder
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
13. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Tay-Sachs disease
Anorexia nervosa
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
American Psychology Association (APA)
14. Learned helplessness
Panic disorder
Developmental disorders
Martin Seligman
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
15. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Pick'S disease
Negative symptoms
American Psychologist
16. One has special talent or status
Parasomnias
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Grandiose delusion
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
17. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Dependent personality disorder
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Bulimia nervosa
Learning disorders
18. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
pyromania
David Rosenhan
Depressive realism
Sleep terror
19. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
Schizophrenia (onset)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Conversion disorder
Wernicke'S syndrome
20. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Echolalia (catatonia)
Stanley Hall
21. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Borderline personality disorder
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Dependence
Manic symptoms
22. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Grandiose delusion
Delusions
American Psychology Association (APA)
23. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Schizophrenia (description)
diathesis-stress theory
Dementia
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
24. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Fromm and Reichamn
Histrionic personality disorder
DSM (description & history)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
25. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
American Psychologist
Depressive realism
Delusional disorder
Specific phobia
26. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Trichotillomania
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Dependence
27. 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
PsycINFO database
Primary prevention
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Stanley Hall
28. 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'
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
American Psychology Association (APA)
Somatic delusion
Schizophrenogenic mother
29. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Psychological abstracts
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Insomnia
30. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Schizophrenia (description)
Reactive schizophrenia
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
American Psychologist
31. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Histrionic personality disorder
Schizophrenia (types)
32. 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
Down syndrome
Major depressive disorder
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
33. 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
DSM (axes)
American Psychology Association (APA)
34. Schizophrenogenic mother
Fromm and Reichamn
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Social phobia
Narcolepsy
35. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Down syndrome
Schizoaffective disorder
retrograde amnesia
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
36. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
Delusional disorder
Schizophrenia (etiology)
American Psychology Association (APA)
Depressive realism
37. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Specific phobia
Culturally competent interventions
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
38. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Stanley Hall
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
DSM (description & history)
39. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Dyssomnias
Delusional disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Amnesia
40. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Phobia
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Shared psychotic disorder
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
41. Type of mother who 'causes' children to become schizophrenic
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Mental retardation
Schizophrenogenic mother
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
42. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Amphetamines
Negative symptoms
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
43. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Primary prevention
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Specific phobia
Community psychology
44. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Fromm and Reichamn
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Grandiose delusion
45. Excessive sleepiness
American Psychologist
Hypersomnia
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Reactive schizophrenia
46. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Nightmare
47. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Borderline personality disorder
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
48. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
American Psychologist
Panic attack
Dementia
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
49. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Tic disorders
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
50. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Schizoid personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
Huntington'S disease
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking