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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania
Life event stress
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Process schizophrenia
2. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Major depressive disorder
Fugue
Insomnia
3. Online format of Psychological Abstracts; access all psychology abstracts catalogued under search
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Schizophrenia (description)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
PsycINFO database
4. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
American Psychologist
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Social phobia
5. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Parkinson'S
Culturally competent interventions
Amnesia
Bipolar disorder
6. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Schizoaffective disorder
Somatic delusion
Negative symptoms
Sleep terror
7. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Abuse
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
8. Excessive sleepiness
Hypersomnia
Reactive depression
Dependent personality disorder
Learning disorders
9. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Paranoid personality disorder
Pick'S disease
Erotomanic delusion
Manic symptoms
10. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
Huntington'S disease
Dyssomnias
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Delirium
11. Imitating gestures of others
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Mental retardation
Reactive depression
Amphetamines
12. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Neuroleptic drugs
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Narcissistic personality disorder
13. Perhaps use of neologisms
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Schizophrenia (description)
Trichotillomania
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
14. Falling asleep uncontrollably during routine daily activity
Elimination disorders
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Narcolepsy
Depressive realism
15. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Tay-Sachs disease
Community psychology
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Dependence
16. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
dissociative Identity disorder
Dementia
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
17. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Schizotypal personality disorder
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Schizophrenogenic mother
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
18. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Somatic delusion
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Confabulations
19. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
diathesis-stress theory
Process schizophrenia
American Psychology Association (APA)
20. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Depressive realism
David Rosenhan
pyromania
Schizophrenogenic mother
21. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
Residual (schizophrenia)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Thomas Szasz
Dyssomnias
22. 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
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Specific phobia
David Rosenhan
Dependence
23. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
American Psychology Association (APA)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
pyromania
Psychological Bulletin
24. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Grandiose delusion
Learning disorders
25. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Amphetamines
Pick'S disease
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Schizotypal personality disorder
26. 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
Factitious disorder (group 9)
DSM (axes)
Avoidant personality disorder
Paranoid personality disorder
27. 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
Specific phobia
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
28. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Avoidant personality disorder
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Tay-Sachs disease
29. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
30. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
Delusional disorder
dopamine
retrograde amnesia
Amphetamines
31. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Manic symptoms
Delusional disorder
Tardive dyskinesia
Schizotypal personality disorder
32. Male with one Y and 2 X chromosomes - hypogonadism and reduced fertility; other physical and behavioural differences and problems with varying severity
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33. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Grandiose delusion
compulsion
Major depressive disorder
Panic disorder
34. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Developmental disorders
Bulimia nervosa
Avoidant personality disorder
35. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
anterograde amnesia
American Psychologist
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Process schizophrenia
36. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Schizophrenia (types)
Primary prevention
Hypochondriasis
37. Parroting
Echolalia (catatonia)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Pick'S disease
Klinefelter'S syndrome
38. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Fromm and Reichamn
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Panic disorder
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
39. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Community psychology
Generalized anxiety disorder
Echolalia (catatonia)
dopamine
40. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
dissociative Identity disorder
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Dependent personality disorder
dopamine
41. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
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42. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Tay-Sachs disease
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
43. 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
Panic attack
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Down syndrome
44. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Insomnia
Delusional disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
45. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Alzheimer'S disease
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
46. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Histrionic personality disorder
Shared psychotic disorder
Psychological Bulletin
Specific phobia
47. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Cretinism
Bipolar disorder
48. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Phobia
David Rosenhan
49. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Life event stress
Parasomnias
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
50. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Health psychology
Insomnia
Paranoid personality disorder