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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. 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
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
DSM (axes)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Dependent personality disorder
2. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
dissociative Identity disorder
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
3. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Echolalia (catatonia)
Schizophrenia (description)
Psychological Bulletin
dopamine
4. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Bipolar disorder
Conversion disorder
Alzheimer'S disease
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
5. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger
Abuse
Thomas Szasz
Flat affect
Delusional disorder
6. Irresistible impulse to steal
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Kleptomania
7. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Parasomnias
Major depressive disorder
diathesis-stress theory
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
8. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Amphetamines
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
9. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Antisocial
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Major depressive disorder
Reactive schizophrenia
10. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Huntington'S disease
Specific phobia
Trichotillomania
Tardive dyskinesia
11. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Trichotillomania
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Delusional disorder
Fugue
12. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Alzheimer'S disease
Delusions
13. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Schizophrenia (types)
Delirium
Obsession
Social phobia
14. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Generalized anxiety disorder
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
15. Perhaps use of neologisms
retrograde amnesia
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Histrionic personality disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
16. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Schizophrenia (types)
DSM (axes)
Stanley Hall
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
17. 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
Social phobia
Down syndrome
Learning disorders
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
18. 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
pathological gambling
Specific phobia
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Dementia
19. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Dyssomnias
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Huntington'S disease
20. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Down syndrome
Dependent personality disorder
retrograde amnesia
Alzheimer'S disease
21. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Hypochondriasis
Culturally competent interventions
Amnesia
Schizoid personality disorder
22. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Elimination disorders
Major depressive disorder
Nightmare
Stanley Hall
23. Falling asleep uncontrollably during routine daily activity
Nightmare
Schizoid personality disorder
Psychological abstracts
Narcolepsy
24. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Dependent personality disorder
Panic disorder
dissociative Identity disorder
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
25. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Delusions
Parasomnias
Negative symptoms
Dementia
26. Fear of a situation that might arise panic symptoms - and escape would be difficult; usually fear and avoidance of being outside the home or in crowds
Agoraphobia
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Martin Seligman
27. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Elimination disorders
Confabulations
Somatic delusion
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
28. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Antisocial
Confabulations
Bulimia nervosa
Life event stress
29. 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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30. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
anterograde amnesia
Confabulations
Schizophrenia (onset)
Fugue
31. Irresistible impulse to set fires
pyromania
Hypochondriasis
pathological gambling
Tic disorders
32. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; indicated by patterns of behaviour that violate rules - norms - or the rights of others
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Nightmare
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Generalized anxiety disorder
33. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Community psychology
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Dysthymic disorder
34. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
compulsion
Reactive depression
Anorexia nervosa
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
35. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Trichotillomania
Fromm and Reichamn
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Schizotypal personality disorder
36. Imitating gestures of others
Avoidant personality disorder
Psychological abstracts
Antisocial
Echopraxia (catatonia)
37. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Sleep terror
Reactive schizophrenia
Down syndrome
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
38. 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
Psychological abstracts
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
pyromania
Culturally competent interventions
39. Excessive sleepiness
DSM (axes)
Delirium
Hypersomnia
Dementia
40. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Hypochondriasis
retrograde amnesia
Health psychology
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
41. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
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42. Type of mother who 'causes' children to become schizophrenic
Schizophrenogenic mother
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Shared psychotic disorder
Dependent personality disorder
43. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Huntington'S disease
Phobia
Generalized anxiety disorder
Amphetamines
44. 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
Amphetamines
DSM (axes)
American Psychology Association (APA)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
45. Depression resulting from particular events - similar to Martin Seligman'S learned helplessness
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Reactive depression
Parasomnias
Community psychology
46. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Narcolepsy
Bipolar disorder
Disorganized behaviour
Reactive schizophrenia
47. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Cretinism
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Fugue
Klinefelter'S syndrome
48. One has special talent or status
Histrionic personality disorder
Neuroleptic drugs
Grandiose delusion
Schizophrenia (etiology)
49. 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
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Erotomanic delusion
Psychological Bulletin
Amnesia
50. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Fromm and Reichamn
Sleep terror
Negative symptoms
Panic disorder