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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Fear of a situation that might arise panic symptoms - and escape would be difficult; usually fear and avoidance of being outside the home or in crowds
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Agoraphobia
Manic symptoms
Hypersomnia
2. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Health psychology
Trichotillomania
Borderline personality disorder
Community psychology
3. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Kleptomania
Martin Seligman
Phobia
Panic disorder
4. 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;
Major depressive disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
Primary prevention
Schizoaffective disorder
5. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Parasomnias
Borderline personality disorder
6. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Schizoaffective disorder
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Huntington'S disease
7. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Specific phobia
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
8. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia
dopamine
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
9. Another person is in love with the individual
Major depressive disorder
Erotomanic delusion
Dependence
Narcissistic personality disorder
10. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Tic disorders
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Cretinism
11. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Antisocial
Bipolar disorder
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
12. 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
Schizophrenogenic mother
Antisocial
Bulimia nervosa
Dependence
13. 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
Narcolepsy
Psychological abstracts
DSM (axes)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
14. Manifested by physical or bodily symptoms that cause reduced functioning; conversion disorder - hypochondriasis; formerly 'psychosomatic' disorders
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Generalized anxiety disorder
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
15. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Dysthymic disorder
Health psychology
Panic attack
Tay-Sachs disease
16. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Post-traumatic stress disorder
American Psychologist
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
17. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
David Rosenhan
Paranoid personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
18. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Dementia
compulsion
anterograde amnesia
19. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Negative symptoms
20. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Negative symptoms
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Schizophrenia (description)
Social phobia
21. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Depressive realism
Narcissistic personality disorder
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Psychological Bulletin
22. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Parasomnias
23. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
pathological gambling
Tic disorders
24. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
Schizophrenia (types)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Grandiose delusion
Schizophrenia (onset)
25. 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
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
DSM (description & history)
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
26. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
American Psychology Association (APA)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
compulsion
27. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Schizophrenia (types)
Antisocial
American Psychology Association (APA)
Disorganized behaviour
28. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Schizoid personality disorder
Amphetamines
Trichotillomania
Specific phobia
29. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Stanley Hall
Schizophrenogenic mother
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
30. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Panic attack
Obsession
diathesis-stress theory
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
31. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Community psychology
Hypochondriasis
Pick'S disease
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
32. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Delirium
Martin Seligman
pathological gambling
Narcolepsy
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
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Dementia
Tay-Sachs disease
Down syndrome
34. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Down syndrome
35. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
Insomnia
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Stanley Hall
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
36. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
Schizoid personality disorder
Delusional disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
37. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Learning disorders
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
compulsion
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
38. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Schizoaffective disorder
Manic symptoms
Dyssomnias
Anorexia nervosa
39. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Parkinson'S
Sleep terror
Fromm and Reichamn
40. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Bulimia nervosa
Confabulations
Delusional disorder
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
41. 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
David Rosenhan
American Psychologist
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Flat affect
42. Imitating gestures of others
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Flat affect
43. Schizophrenogenic mother
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Delusional disorder
Fromm and Reichamn
Huntington'S disease
44. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Tay-Sachs disease
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Generalized anxiety disorder
pyromania
45. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Thomas Szasz
Negative symptoms
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Sleep terror
46. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
Tardive dyskinesia
Conversion disorder
Amphetamines
Developmental disorders
47. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Narcissistic personality disorder
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Bulimia nervosa
Nightmare
48. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Bipolar disorder
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
49. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Process schizophrenia
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Tic disorders
50. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Erotomanic delusion
Narcolepsy
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)