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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. 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
Psychological Bulletin
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Dependence
Narcissistic personality disorder
2. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Insomnia
Tay-Sachs disease
Borderline personality disorder
3. 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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4. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Health psychology
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Manic symptoms
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
5. One has special talent or status
Community psychology
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Grandiose delusion
6. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Schizophrenogenic mother
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Huntington'S disease
7. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
compulsion
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Conversion disorder
Phobia
8. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Elimination disorders
Primary prevention
Reactive schizophrenia
Factitious disorder (group 9)
9. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
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10. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Schizoaffective disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Developmental disorders
Neuroleptic drugs
11. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Narcissistic personality disorder
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Bulimia nervosa
Phobia
12. 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
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Schizophrenia (types)
PsycINFO database
Primary prevention
13. Male with one Y and 2 X chromosomes - hypogonadism and reduced fertility; other physical and behavioural differences and problems with varying severity
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14. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Abuse
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
15. Another person is in love with the individual
Erotomanic delusion
Schizoaffective disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
16. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Panic disorder
Residual (schizophrenia)
17. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Dysthymic disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
Nightmare
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
18. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
American Psychologist
Flat affect
Schizotypal personality disorder
Schizophrenia (onset)
19. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
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20. Perhaps use of neologisms
Fromm and Reichamn
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Schizophrenia (description)
21. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Amphetamines
pathological gambling
Tic disorders
American Psychology Association (APA)
22. 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
Nightmare
Tardive dyskinesia
Parkinson'S
Psychological abstracts
23. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
Shared psychotic disorder
Residual (schizophrenia)
Delusional disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
24. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Psychological Bulletin
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
25. 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;
Obsession
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
diathesis-stress theory
26. 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
Community psychology
Catalepsy (catatonia)
David Rosenhan
compulsion
27. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Antisocial
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
anterograde amnesia
28. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
retrograde amnesia
Dyssomnias
Amnesia
Paranoid personality disorder
29. Irresistible impulse to steal
Martin Seligman
Kleptomania
Paranoid personality disorder
Specific phobia
30. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Schizoaffective disorder
anterograde amnesia
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
31. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Pick'S disease
Schizoaffective disorder
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Culturally competent interventions
32. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
Parasomnias
Amnesia
Schizoid personality disorder
Confabulations
33. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Schizoaffective disorder
Flat affect
Stanley Hall
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
34. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Confabulations
Trichotillomania
Tic disorders
35. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Histrionic personality disorder
Cretinism
Pick'S disease
36. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Schizoid personality disorder
American Psychologist
Narcolepsy
37. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Sleep terror
Negative symptoms
Echopraxia (catatonia)
pathological gambling
38. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Bulimia nervosa
dissociative Identity disorder
39. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Paranoid personality disorder
Hypochondriasis
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
40. Parroting
Amphetamines
Echolalia (catatonia)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
41. Imitating gestures of others
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Klinefelter'S syndrome
42. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Histrionic personality disorder
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Mental retardation
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
43. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Anorexia nervosa
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Schizophrenia (onset)
Bipolar disorder
44. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Flat affect
Culturally competent interventions
Schizophrenia (etiology)
45. 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
Neuroleptic drugs
Culturally competent interventions
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Echolalia (catatonia)
46. Persistent thoughts
Obsession
Parasomnias
American Psychology Association (APA)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
47. Type of mother who 'causes' children to become schizophrenic
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Schizophrenogenic mother
Delusions
48. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Schizophrenogenic mother
Conversion disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder
49. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
diathesis-stress theory
American Psychologist
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Major depressive disorder
50. Schizophrenogenic mother
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Fromm and Reichamn
Major depressive disorder
Confabulations