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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Reactive depression
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Tic disorders
2. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Tardive dyskinesia
Somatic delusion
Amphetamines
Panic disorder
3. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Bipolar disorder
Dependent personality disorder
Amphetamines
Learning disorders
4. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Sleep terror
Tardive dyskinesia
Primary prevention
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
5. Excessive sleepiness
Hypersomnia
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Schizoid personality disorder
6. 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 disorder
Panic attack
American Psychology Association (APA)
Disorganized behaviour
7. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
Down syndrome
Grandiose delusion
Process schizophrenia
Schizophrenia (onset)
8. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Stanley Hall
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Pick'S disease
9. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Flat affect
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Schizophrenia (description)
10. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Specific phobia
Tic disorders
Negative symptoms
11. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Trichotillomania
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
12. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Down syndrome
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Psychological Bulletin
Developmental disorders
13. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Panic disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Anorexia nervosa
Kleptomania
14. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Depressive realism
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
15. From thiamine deficiency - memory problems and eye dysfunctions - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
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16. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; indicated by patterns of behaviour that violate rules - norms - or the rights of others
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Health psychology
Tic disorders
Flat affect
17. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Schizophrenia (types)
Social phobia
pathological gambling
Thomas Szasz
18. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Developmental disorders
American Psychology Association (APA)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Delusions
19. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Agoraphobia
Schizotypal personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Amnesia
20. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Flat affect
Social phobia
American Psychology Association (APA)
Tardive dyskinesia
21. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger
Abuse
Pick'S disease
Developmental disorders
Schizophrenia (onset)
22. 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
Trichotillomania
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
DSM (description & history)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
23. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Pick'S disease
retrograde amnesia
Bulimia nervosa
Psychological abstracts
24. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Tardive dyskinesia
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Phobia
American Psychologist
25. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Major depressive disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Schizoid personality disorder
Antisocial
26. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Reactive depression
American Psychologist
Bulimia nervosa
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
27. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Schizoid personality disorder
Learning disorders
Residual (schizophrenia)
28. Irresistible impulse to set fires
pyromania
Delirium
Borderline personality disorder
Tay-Sachs disease
29. Parroting
dopamine
Echolalia (catatonia)
DSM (axes)
Schizophrenia (types)
30. 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)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Erotomanic delusion
Schizophrenogenic mother
31. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Huntington'S disease
Nightmare
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
32. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Residual (schizophrenia)
Insomnia
33. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal
Wernicke'S syndrome
Parkinson'S
Negative symptoms
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
34. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Cretinism
Dysthymic disorder
Alzheimer'S disease
Parasomnias
35. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Amnesia
Shared psychotic disorder
Phobia
36. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Psychological Bulletin
Stanley Hall
Residual (schizophrenia)
37. 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
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Panic attack
Psychological Bulletin
Schizophrenia (types)
38. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Wernicke'S syndrome
Learning disorders
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
39. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
dissociative Identity disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Delirium
40. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Dysthymic disorder
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Somatic delusion
Cretinism
41. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Shared psychotic disorder
Tic disorders
Reactive schizophrenia
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
42. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Trichotillomania
Conversion disorder
Social phobia
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
43. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
Major depressive disorder
Delusional disorder
Echolalia (catatonia)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
44. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Panic disorder
Catalepsy (catatonia)
David Rosenhan
Social phobia
45. 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
Amphetamines
Confabulations
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Down syndrome
46. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
diathesis-stress theory
Generalized anxiety disorder
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
pathological gambling
47. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Manic symptoms
Amnesia
Process schizophrenia
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
48. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
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49. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Dyssomnias
Psychological abstracts
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Narcolepsy
50. Another person is in love with the individual
Neuroleptic drugs
Erotomanic delusion
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)