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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Somatic delusion
Borderline personality disorder
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Social phobia
2. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Delirium
3. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Fromm and Reichamn
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
4. Perhaps use of neologisms
Erotomanic delusion
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Fugue
Flat affect
5. 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
Kleptomania
Primary prevention
Amnesia
Panic disorder
6. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Elimination disorders
Stanley Hall
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
7. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Fromm and Reichamn
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Histrionic personality disorder
Abuse
8. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Schizophrenia (types)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Tay-Sachs disease
9. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Phobia
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
retrograde amnesia
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
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
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Dysthymic disorder
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Delirium
11. Manifested by physical or bodily symptoms that cause reduced functioning; conversion disorder - hypochondriasis; formerly 'psychosomatic' disorders
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Health psychology
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
12. One has special talent or status
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Grandiose delusion
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
13. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
retrograde amnesia
Schizotypal personality disorder
Health psychology
Psychological abstracts
14. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Tic disorders
Pick'S disease
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
15. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
DSM (axes)
Echolalia (catatonia)
16. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Schizotypal personality disorder
Fugue
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Hypochondriasis
17. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Schizophrenia (onset)
Flat affect
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
18. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Mental retardation
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
pathological gambling
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
19. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Generalized anxiety disorder
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
20. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Life event stress
Obsession
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
21. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
Thomas Szasz
Huntington'S disease
anterograde amnesia
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
22. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Reactive schizophrenia
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Reactive depression
23. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
pathological gambling
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Insomnia
24. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Tardive dyskinesia
Antisocial
25. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Shared psychotic disorder
diathesis-stress theory
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
26. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Anorexia nervosa
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Shared psychotic disorder
Neuroleptic drugs
27. 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;
Histrionic personality disorder
Major depressive disorder
Kleptomania
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
28. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Flat affect
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Dementia
29. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Thomas Szasz
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
30. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Confabulations
Culturally competent interventions
Tay-Sachs disease
31. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
David Rosenhan
Amnesia
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
32. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Reactive depression
diathesis-stress theory
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
33. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Panic disorder
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
anterograde amnesia
Primary prevention
34. 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
Process schizophrenia
Mental retardation
Insomnia
Dependence
35. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Narcissistic personality disorder
dissociative Identity disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
American Psychologist
36. 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
Shared psychotic disorder
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Community psychology
37. 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
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Parasomnias
DSM (description & history)
38. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Cretinism
Life event stress
Thomas Szasz
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
39. 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
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
David Rosenhan
pathological gambling
Factitious disorder (group 9)
40. 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
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Schizophrenia (description)
Dementia
41. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Social phobia
Narcissistic personality disorder
Psychological Bulletin
PsycINFO database
42. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Dependent personality disorder
Martin Seligman
Neuroleptic drugs
Disorganized behaviour
43. 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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44. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Agoraphobia
Specific phobia
Parasomnias
Shared psychotic disorder
45. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia
dopamine
Confabulations
Delirium
Learning disorders
46. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Trichotillomania
Thomas Szasz
Hypersomnia
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
47. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Erotomanic delusion
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
48. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
PsycINFO database
Delusional disorder
Amnesia
Schizophrenia (types)
49. 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
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Dependence
Health psychology
Schizoaffective disorder
50. Excessive sleepiness
Psychological Bulletin
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Culturally competent interventions
Hypersomnia