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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
2. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Bipolar disorder
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Borderline personality disorder
DSM (axes)
3. 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
Process schizophrenia
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Community psychology
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
4. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Wernicke'S syndrome
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Down syndrome
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
5. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Learning disorders
Cretinism
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
6. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
7. Schizophrenogenic mother
Phobia
Fromm and Reichamn
Psychological abstracts
Narcissistic personality disorder
8. 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
dissociative Identity disorder
Agoraphobia
Elimination disorders
Health psychology
9. Excessive sleepiness
Hypersomnia
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Antisocial
retrograde amnesia
10. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Schizophrenia (description)
Fugue
Generalized anxiety disorder
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
11. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia
dopamine
Tay-Sachs disease
Bulimia nervosa
dissociative Identity disorder
12. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Avoidant personality disorder
Fugue
Amphetamines
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
13. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Psychological Bulletin
Parasomnias
pyromania
14. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Residual (schizophrenia)
Panic disorder
15. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Life event stress
Tic disorders
retrograde amnesia
Wernicke'S syndrome
16. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Schizotypal personality disorder
Elimination disorders
Tardive dyskinesia
Residual (schizophrenia)
17. 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
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Confabulations
18. Another person is in love with the individual
Major depressive disorder
Borderline personality disorder
Primary prevention
Erotomanic delusion
19. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Neuroleptic drugs
Flat affect
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Psychological Bulletin
20. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Anorexia nervosa
Social phobia
Confabulations
Neuroleptic drugs
21. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Histrionic personality disorder
Manic symptoms
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
retrograde amnesia
22. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Dependent personality disorder
Martin Seligman
compulsion
23. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Narcolepsy
Avoidant personality disorder
Residual (schizophrenia)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
24. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Negative symptoms
Residual (schizophrenia)
Anorexia nervosa
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
25. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
retrograde amnesia
Tay-Sachs disease
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
DSM (description & history)
26. 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
DSM (axes)
Confabulations
DSM (description & history)
Reactive schizophrenia
27. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
Paranoid personality disorder
diathesis-stress theory
Conversion disorder
Dyssomnias
28. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
29. Learned helplessness
Martin Seligman
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Flat affect
Negative symptoms
30. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Pick'S disease
Amnesia
Social phobia
Cretinism
31. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Specific phobia
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Delirium
Major depressive disorder
32. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Anorexia nervosa
Bipolar disorder
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Delirium
33. 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
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Psychological abstracts
Major depressive disorder
Schizophrenia (etiology)
34. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Tay-Sachs disease
Cretinism
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Phobia
35. Persistent thoughts
Tardive dyskinesia
Wernicke'S syndrome
Alzheimer'S disease
Obsession
36. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Psychological Bulletin
Community psychology
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Shared psychotic disorder
37. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
American Psychology Association (APA)
Delirium
Schizophrenogenic mother
Bulimia nervosa
38. Inappropriate dress - agitation - shouting
Disorganized behaviour
Antisocial
Delirium
Generalized anxiety disorder
39. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Insomnia
Residual (schizophrenia)
Depressive realism
40. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Social phobia
Tardive dyskinesia
Developmental disorders
Martin Seligman
41. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Narcolepsy
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
dopamine
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
42. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Neuroleptic drugs
Fugue
Narcolepsy
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
43. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Bulimia nervosa
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Schizophrenia (onset)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
44. Motor immobility or waxy figure
pathological gambling
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Hypersomnia
45. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Fugue
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
pathological gambling
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
46. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Phobia
Dependent personality disorder
Fromm and Reichamn
47. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Health psychology
Learning disorders
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Narcolepsy
48. Male with one Y and 2 X chromosomes - hypogonadism and reduced fertility; other physical and behavioural differences and problems with varying severity
49. Perhaps use of neologisms
American Psychologist
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
American Psychology Association (APA)
Disorganized behaviour
50. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Major depressive disorder
Schizoaffective disorder
Agoraphobia