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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Persistent thoughts
Health psychology
Generalized anxiety disorder
Social phobia
Obsession
2. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Bipolar disorder
Wernicke'S syndrome
Stanley Hall
Confabulations
3. 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
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Flat affect
Health psychology
Narcissistic personality disorder
4. Hall; founded 1892; governing body of psychology; purpose to 'advance psychology as a science - as a profession - and as a means of promoting human welfare'
Tardive dyskinesia
Parasomnias
Huntington'S disease
American Psychology Association (APA)
5. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
DSM (axes)
Hypochondriasis
Life event stress
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
6. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Schizophrenia (onset)
Parkinson'S
Histrionic personality disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
7. Learned helplessness
Culturally competent interventions
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Martin Seligman
Hypersomnia
8. 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
Fugue
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Echolalia (catatonia)
9. 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
Dependent personality disorder
Schizophrenia (types)
Psychological abstracts
Elimination disorders
10. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Life event stress
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Dependence
Stanley Hall
11. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Fugue
American Psychologist
Specific phobia
Bulimia nervosa
12. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Delirium
American Psychology Association (APA)
Tic disorders
Insomnia
13. 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
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Dementia
Tardive dyskinesia
DSM (axes)
14. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Delusions
Parasomnias
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
15. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Mental retardation
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Dependent personality disorder
16. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Panic disorder
Reactive depression
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Parasomnias
17. Many schizophrenic symptoms not fitting a particular type
Major depressive disorder
Down syndrome
David Rosenhan
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
18. From thiamine deficiency - memory problems and eye dysfunctions - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
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19. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Elimination disorders
Wernicke'S syndrome
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Huntington'S disease
20. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Thomas Szasz
Schizotypal personality disorder
Narcolepsy
21. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
DSM (description & history)
Antisocial
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Parkinson'S
22. Absence of appropriate emotion
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Community psychology
dopamine
Flat affect
23. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Avoidant personality disorder
Obsession
American Psychology Association (APA)
24. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal
Schizophrenogenic mother
Flat affect
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
25. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Agoraphobia
American Psychologist
26. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Somatic delusion
Residual (schizophrenia)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Pick'S disease
27. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Hypersomnia
Reactive depression
Phobia
Paranoid personality disorder
28. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
dissociative Identity disorder
Fugue
Schizophrenia (onset)
Tic disorders
29. Exposure to trauma that results in decreased ability to function and recurrent thoughts and anxiety about the incident; often linked to war veterans or victims of violence
compulsion
Paranoid personality disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Reactive schizophrenia
30. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
Antisocial
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Trichotillomania
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
31. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
PsycINFO database
Process schizophrenia
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Dependent personality disorder
32. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Amphetamines
Schizophrenogenic mother
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
33. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Psychological Bulletin
Bipolar disorder
Korsakoff'S syndrome
34. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
dopamine
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Panic attack
Narcissistic personality disorder
35. 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
American Psychology Association (APA)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Panic attack
Wernicke'S syndrome
36. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Tay-Sachs disease
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Dysthymic disorder
Somatic delusion
37. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Bipolar disorder
American Psychologist
Bulimia nervosa
38. Perhaps use of neologisms
dopamine
Neuroleptic drugs
David Rosenhan
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
39. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
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40. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Depressive realism
Klinefelter'S syndrome
41. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Huntington'S disease
Pick'S disease
anterograde amnesia
42. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Psychological abstracts
pathological gambling
43. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
diathesis-stress theory
Life event stress
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Tardive dyskinesia
44. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Disorganized behaviour
Specific phobia
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Narcissistic personality disorder
45. Irresistible impulse to steal
Kleptomania
Dependence
Community psychology
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
46. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Borderline personality disorder
Dyssomnias
47. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Delirium
Nightmare
48. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Tic disorders
Sleep terror
Cretinism
49. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
compulsion
DSM (axes)
Histrionic personality disorder
Amphetamines
50. 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
Amnesia
Dependence
Bulimia nervosa
Obsession