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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
Nightmare
dissociative Identity disorder
Schizophrenia (etiology)
2. Perhaps use of neologisms
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Down syndrome
Psychological Bulletin
3. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Anorexia nervosa
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Thomas Szasz
Amphetamines
4. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Dependent personality disorder
Manic symptoms
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
5. Imitating gestures of others
Schizoid personality disorder
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
6. Another person is in love with the individual
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Erotomanic delusion
Alzheimer'S disease
7. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Tay-Sachs disease
Health psychology
Schizoaffective disorder
PsycINFO database
8. 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;
Panic disorder
Major depressive disorder
Agoraphobia
Schizophrenia (etiology)
9. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Flat affect
diathesis-stress theory
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
10. 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
Health psychology
Parasomnias
Narcolepsy
Borderline personality disorder
11. Tremors with declining neurological functioning; caused by deficient dopamine activity - boost dopamine by drug such as levodopa
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12. 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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13. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Amphetamines
Conversion disorder
retrograde amnesia
Parasomnias
14. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Fugue
Generalized anxiety disorder
Martin Seligman
15. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
Dyssomnias
Dependent personality disorder
Cretinism
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
16. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Hypochondriasis
Bulimia nervosa
Kleptomania
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
17. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
Parkinson'S
Dependence
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
18. 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;
Post-traumatic stress disorder
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Reactive depression
Conversion disorder
19. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Schizophrenia (description)
pathological gambling
Factitious disorder (group 9)
20. Excessive sleepiness
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Hypersomnia
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Generalized anxiety disorder
21. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
American Psychology Association (APA)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Residual (schizophrenia)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
22. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Elimination disorders
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Stanley Hall
Alzheimer'S disease
23. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Trichotillomania
Community psychology
Obsession
Residual (schizophrenia)
24. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
Flat affect
Bipolar disorder
Delirium
Nightmare
25. 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
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Flat affect
David Rosenhan
American Psychology Association (APA)
26. 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
PsycINFO database
Psychological abstracts
Anorexia nervosa
Abuse
27. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Borderline personality disorder
dopamine
Generalized anxiety disorder
Developmental disorders
28. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Primary prevention
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Shared psychotic disorder
29. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Depressive realism
Stanley Hall
retrograde amnesia
30. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
31. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Somatic delusion
Amnesia
dopamine
32. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
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33. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Phobia
Depressive realism
Schizophrenia (types)
Shared psychotic disorder
34. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Learning disorders
Confabulations
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Schizotypal personality disorder
35. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
Trichotillomania
Process schizophrenia
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Thomas Szasz
36. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Pick'S disease
Delirium
Somatic delusion
Generalized anxiety disorder
37. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Life event stress
Martin Seligman
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
38. Many schizophrenic symptoms not fitting a particular type
Tic disorders
Tay-Sachs disease
Manic symptoms
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
39. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
dissociative Identity disorder
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Process schizophrenia
Amnesia
40. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
Process schizophrenia
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
David Rosenhan
Conversion disorder
41. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Obsession
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Agoraphobia
42. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Specific phobia
Schizophrenogenic mother
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Antisocial
43. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
American Psychology Association (APA)
Amnesia
Schizophrenia (description)
dissociative Identity disorder
44. 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
Hypersomnia
Bipolar disorder
Kleptomania
Down syndrome
45. Type of mother who 'causes' children to become schizophrenic
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Thomas Szasz
Schizophrenogenic mother
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
46. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
compulsion
47. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Tic disorders
Primary prevention
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Nightmare
48. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Delusions
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Learning disorders
49. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
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50. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Neuroleptic drugs
Grandiose delusion
Schizophrenogenic mother
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