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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. 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
Confabulations
Shared psychotic disorder
Health psychology
Community psychology
2. Depression resulting from particular events - similar to Martin Seligman'S learned helplessness
Reactive depression
Residual (schizophrenia)
Confabulations
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
3. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Life event stress
Process schizophrenia
4. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Paranoid personality disorder
Life event stress
Echolalia (catatonia)
5. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
anterograde amnesia
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Dementia
Community psychology
6. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Mental retardation
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
7. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Neuroleptic drugs
Obsession
Specific phobia
8. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Alzheimer'S disease
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Dyssomnias
Depressive realism
9. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Delirium
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
10. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
Antisocial
Community psychology
Conversion disorder
compulsion
11. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Dyssomnias
Negative symptoms
Sleep terror
12. Depressive episode by depressed mood - loss of interests - changes in weight or sleep - low energy - feelings of worthlessness - or thoughts of death; symptoms are present nearly every day for at least two weeks; females 2x likelier to be diagnosed;
Grandiose delusion
Panic disorder
Echolalia (catatonia)
Major depressive disorder
13. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Community psychology
Histrionic personality disorder
Schizophrenia (types)
Insomnia
14. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal
Amphetamines
Confabulations
Echolalia (catatonia)
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
15. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Life event stress
Trichotillomania
anterograde amnesia
Agoraphobia
16. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Panic attack
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
17. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Primary prevention
Social phobia
Elimination disorders
18. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Antisocial
Factitious disorder (group 9)
American Psychology Association (APA)
Life event stress
19. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Culturally competent interventions
dissociative Identity disorder
Abuse
American Psychologist
20. 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
Disorganized behaviour
DSM (description & history)
anterograde amnesia
Tardive dyskinesia
21. 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
Down syndrome
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Depressive realism
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
22. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Histrionic personality disorder
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Dependence
Kleptomania
23. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Social phobia
pyromania
Sleep terror
24. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
Mental retardation
dissociative Identity disorder
Reactive schizophrenia
Life event stress
25. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Sleep terror
Social phobia
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
26. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Abuse
Schizoaffective disorder
DSM (axes)
27. Manifested by physical or bodily symptoms that cause reduced functioning; conversion disorder - hypochondriasis; formerly 'psychosomatic' disorders
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Echolalia (catatonia)
Abuse
Tic disorders
28. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Cretinism
Wernicke'S syndrome
Community psychology
Tay-Sachs disease
29. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Bipolar disorder
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Life event stress
30. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Abuse
DSM (axes)
American Psychologist
Nightmare
31. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Generalized anxiety disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Confabulations
32. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Stanley Hall
Manic symptoms
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Psychological Bulletin
33. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Learning disorders
Schizoaffective disorder
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Delusions
34. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; indicated by patterns of behaviour that violate rules - norms - or the rights of others
Delusions
Dependence
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Schizoaffective disorder
35. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
Antisocial
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Schizophrenia (onset)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
36. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Reactive schizophrenia
Psychological Bulletin
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
37. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Tardive dyskinesia
Manic symptoms
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
38. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Mental retardation
Flat affect
Parkinson'S
Schizophrenia (etiology)
39. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Avoidant personality disorder
Insomnia
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
40. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Narcissistic personality disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder
diathesis-stress theory
Amnesia
41. Type of mother who 'causes' children to become schizophrenic
Kleptomania
Manic symptoms
Martin Seligman
Schizophrenogenic mother
42. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Process schizophrenia
Schizophrenia (description)
Culturally competent interventions
Stanley Hall
43. 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
Delusions
Primary prevention
Avoidant personality disorder
Social phobia
44. One has special talent or status
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Shared psychotic disorder
Grandiose delusion
Confabulations
45. 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'
Erotomanic delusion
Panic disorder
Kleptomania
American Psychology Association (APA)
46. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Primary prevention
Fromm and Reichamn
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
47. 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
Schizotypal personality disorder
Hypochondriasis
Panic attack
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
48. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
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49. Irresistible impulse to steal
Schizoid personality disorder
Depressive realism
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Kleptomania
50. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Agoraphobia
Nightmare
Dependent personality disorder
Dysthymic disorder