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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Psychological Bulletin
American Psychologist
Psychological abstracts
Schizophrenia (etiology)
2. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Shared psychotic disorder
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Sleep terror
3. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Thomas Szasz
Dependent personality disorder
Agoraphobia
Antisocial
4. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Hypochondriasis
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Process schizophrenia
Echolalia (catatonia)
5. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
Developmental disorders
Fromm and Reichamn
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Antisocial
6. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Borderline personality disorder
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Phobia
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
7. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Nightmare
DSM (description & history)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Parkinson'S
8. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Psychological abstracts
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
9. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Trichotillomania
Stanley Hall
diathesis-stress theory
Hypochondriasis
10. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Dysthymic disorder
Psychological Bulletin
Amphetamines
11. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Anorexia nervosa
Hypochondriasis
Bulimia nervosa
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
12. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Thomas Szasz
Negative symptoms
Psychological abstracts
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
13. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
DSM (description & history)
Shared psychotic disorder
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
14. 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
Dependence
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
dissociative Identity disorder
15. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Insomnia
Specific phobia
Dementia
Tardive dyskinesia
16. Many schizophrenic symptoms not fitting a particular type
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
17. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Antisocial
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Narcissistic personality disorder
Schizophrenia (onset)
18. 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
Reactive schizophrenia
Cretinism
Panic attack
Schizophrenia (description)
19. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Conversion disorder
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Avoidant personality disorder
Tic disorders
20. 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;
Somatic delusion
American Psychologist
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
21. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Community psychology
Sleep terror
22. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Phobia
Delusions
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
23. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Histrionic personality disorder
Delusions
Martin Seligman
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
24. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Down syndrome
Delusional disorder
Amphetamines
Sleep terror
25. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Specific phobia
Echolalia (catatonia)
Social phobia
26. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Depressive realism
Avoidant personality disorder
Psychological abstracts
Tic disorders
27. Depression resulting from particular events - similar to Martin Seligman'S learned helplessness
Reactive depression
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Major depressive disorder
Panic disorder
28. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Dysthymic disorder
Psychological Bulletin
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
29. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Somatic delusion
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Narcolepsy
Stanley Hall
30. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Amphetamines
Generalized anxiety disorder
Process schizophrenia
Major depressive disorder
31. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Fugue
American Psychology Association (APA)
Schizophrenogenic mother
Dependent personality disorder
32. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Hypersomnia
Grandiose delusion
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
33. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Elimination disorders
Tic disorders
dissociative Identity disorder
Schizophrenia (types)
34. Persistent thoughts
Grandiose delusion
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Obsession
Narcolepsy
35. 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
Schizophrenogenic mother
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Agoraphobia
36. Perhaps use of neologisms
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Schizoid personality disorder
Psychological abstracts
37. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
Amnesia
anterograde amnesia
Narcissistic personality disorder
Cretinism
38. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Schizophrenia (onset)
Schizoaffective disorder
39. Treatment/prevention programs that recognize and tailor to cultural differences; therapists beginning to be trained in customs and norms of various cultures to minimize Eurocentric bias and assumptions
pathological gambling
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Culturally competent interventions
compulsion
40. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Health psychology
PsycINFO database
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Shared psychotic disorder
41. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
Schizoaffective disorder
diathesis-stress theory
Developmental disorders
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
42. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
Dyssomnias
Conversion disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
43. One has special talent or status
Conversion disorder
Specific phobia
Grandiose delusion
Parkinson'S
44. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Manic symptoms
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Hypochondriasis
anterograde amnesia
45. Schizophrenogenic mother
Histrionic personality disorder
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Fromm and Reichamn
Korsakoff'S syndrome
46. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Histrionic personality disorder
Phobia
Schizophrenia (types)
Thomas Szasz
47. 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
Reactive schizophrenia
David Rosenhan
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Schizoid personality disorder
48. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Manic symptoms
Wernicke'S syndrome
Negative symptoms
Reactive depression
49. 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;
Flat affect
Dementia
Major depressive disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
50. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Life event stress
Cretinism
Neuroleptic drugs
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
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