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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Tay-Sachs disease
Psychological abstracts
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
2. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Amphetamines
PsycINFO database
Mental retardation
Antisocial
3. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Elimination disorders
Depressive realism
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Agoraphobia
4. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Confabulations
Borderline personality disorder
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Erotomanic delusion
5. 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
Community psychology
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Fromm and Reichamn
Health psychology
6. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Panic disorder
pathological gambling
Pick'S disease
Dependence
7. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Dependent personality disorder
Tay-Sachs disease
Phobia
Cretinism
8. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia
Avoidant personality disorder
Dependent personality disorder
Stanley Hall
dopamine
9. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
retrograde amnesia
Alzheimer'S disease
Developmental disorders
Echolalia (catatonia)
10. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Schizophrenia (onset)
Conversion disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
11. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Community psychology
Flat affect
pathological gambling
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
12. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Tic disorders
Dysthymic disorder
Huntington'S disease
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
13. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
compulsion
Delirium
Bipolar disorder
pyromania
14. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Amphetamines
Schizoaffective disorder
15. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Martin Seligman
Parkinson'S
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
16. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Dependent personality disorder
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
retrograde amnesia
17. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
American Psychology Association (APA)
Health psychology
Hypersomnia
Narcissistic personality disorder
18. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Stanley Hall
Flat affect
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
19. Tremors with declining neurological functioning; caused by deficient dopamine activity - boost dopamine by drug such as levodopa
20. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Somatic delusion
Specific phobia
Dependence
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
21. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Generalized anxiety disorder
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Reactive schizophrenia
22. Prevent documented psychosocial problems through contact with an at-risk group; proactive intervention; e.g. prenatal health care - Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) - and Head Start
Primary prevention
Phobia
DSM (description & history)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
23. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Shared psychotic disorder
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Reactive schizophrenia
24. Cognitive problems (memory - spatial tasks - or language) that result from a medical condition; may be result of Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S - Huntington'S - or Pick'S disease
Delusional disorder
Dependence
Flat affect
Dementia
25. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Wernicke'S syndrome
Alzheimer'S disease
Reactive depression
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
26. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Hypochondriasis
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Schizophrenia (description)
27. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Delirium
Reactive schizophrenia
Tardive dyskinesia
Dysthymic disorder
28. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
dopamine
Histrionic personality disorder
Down syndrome
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
29. Parroting
Process schizophrenia
Obsession
Echolalia (catatonia)
Kleptomania
30. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Dependence
Flat affect
Social phobia
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
31. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal
Psychological abstracts
dopamine
Developmental disorders
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
32. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Learning disorders
Sleep terror
Parasomnias
Schizophrenia (etiology)
33. 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
Life event stress
Obsession
Down syndrome
Huntington'S disease
34. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Manic symptoms
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Dementia
35. Perhaps use of neologisms
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Social phobia
Bulimia nervosa
Health psychology
36. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Tardive dyskinesia
diathesis-stress theory
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Mental retardation
37. 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)
Tay-Sachs disease
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
38. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Parkinson'S
Dependent personality disorder
Borderline personality disorder
dopamine
39. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Schizophrenogenic mother
40. Imitating gestures of others
Borderline personality disorder
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Pick'S disease
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
41. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Dementia
DSM (description & history)
diathesis-stress theory
42. Learned helplessness
Tic disorders
Histrionic personality disorder
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Martin Seligman
43. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Parkinson'S
Borderline personality disorder
pyromania
Schizophrenia (types)
44. 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
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Trichotillomania
Community psychology
Factitious disorder (group 9)
45. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Health psychology
Culturally competent interventions
46. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Narcolepsy
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Cretinism
Schizoid personality disorder
47. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Sleep terror
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Schizoaffective disorder
48. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Narcolepsy
Specific phobia
Histrionic personality disorder
Health psychology
49. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Delirium
Elimination disorders
50. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Avoidant personality disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
pathological gambling
Catatonic (schizophrenia)