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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. 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
Culturally competent interventions
Manic symptoms
Negative symptoms
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
2. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Fromm and Reichamn
Panic disorder
Paranoid personality disorder
Dyssomnias
3. Parroting
Nightmare
American Psychology Association (APA)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Echolalia (catatonia)
4. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
5. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Generalized anxiety disorder
Social phobia
PsycINFO database
Reactive schizophrenia
6. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Pick'S disease
Wernicke'S syndrome
Post-traumatic stress disorder
7. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Life event stress
Martin Seligman
Insomnia
retrograde amnesia
8. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Panic disorder
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Avoidant personality disorder
9. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Dependent personality disorder
Social phobia
Down syndrome
Korsakoff'S syndrome
10. Inappropriate dress - agitation - shouting
Disorganized behaviour
Elimination disorders
compulsion
Schizophrenia (etiology)
11. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
Somatic delusion
anterograde amnesia
Agoraphobia
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
12. Characterized by obsessions or compulsions that are time-consuming - distressing - and disruptive; typical obsessions might be about locking the door - or becoming contaminated; typical compulsions might be checking behaviour - counting - or hand was
Learning disorders
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Tay-Sachs disease
Trichotillomania
13. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
DSM (axes)
14. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Parasomnias
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Negative symptoms
Tardive dyskinesia
15. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Schizoid personality disorder
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Somatic delusion
16. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Depressive realism
17. Absence of appropriate emotion
Panic disorder
Flat affect
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
David Rosenhan
18. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
David Rosenhan
Life event stress
Grandiose delusion
Nightmare
19. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Major depressive disorder
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Parkinson'S
Mental retardation
20. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
retrograde amnesia
Elimination disorders
Kleptomania
Parkinson'S
21. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Schizophrenia (types)
Sleep terror
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Neuroleptic drugs
22. Imitating gestures of others
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Life event stress
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Neuroleptic drugs
23. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Culturally competent interventions
Dementia
Trichotillomania
24. Excessive sleepiness
Trichotillomania
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Hypersomnia
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
25. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
Developmental disorders
Community psychology
Abuse
DSM (axes)
26. From thiamine deficiency - memory problems and eye dysfunctions - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
27. 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
DSM (description & history)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
anterograde amnesia
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
28. 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'
Hypersomnia
American Psychologist
Tic disorders
American Psychology Association (APA)
29. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Conversion disorder
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Schizophrenogenic mother
30. Learned helplessness
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Dependent personality disorder
Martin Seligman
31. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Borderline personality disorder
Obsession
Flat affect
32. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Erotomanic delusion
dissociative Identity disorder
retrograde amnesia
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
33. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger
Borderline personality disorder
Abuse
Trichotillomania
Agoraphobia
34. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Schizoaffective disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
Learning disorders
Factitious disorder (group 9)
35. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Schizophrenia (description)
American Psychology Association (APA)
pathological gambling
retrograde amnesia
36. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Dependence
Tay-Sachs disease
Post-traumatic stress disorder
37. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Echolalia (catatonia)
Cretinism
Manic symptoms
Insomnia
38. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
39. Type of mother who 'causes' children to become schizophrenic
David Rosenhan
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Confabulations
Schizophrenogenic mother
40. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Erotomanic delusion
Phobia
Fugue
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
41. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Hypochondriasis
Psychological Bulletin
Shared psychotic disorder
42. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Trichotillomania
Delirium
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
David Rosenhan
43. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Alzheimer'S disease
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
44. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Schizophrenia (onset)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
compulsion
45. Schizophrenogenic mother
Parkinson'S
Hypersomnia
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Fromm and Reichamn
46. Persistent thoughts
Obsession
Conversion disorder
DSM (axes)
Sleep terror
47. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Schizophrenogenic mother
Anorexia nervosa
Dyssomnias
Sleep terror
48. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Negative symptoms
Amphetamines
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Primary prevention
49. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Confabulations
Learning disorders
Mental retardation
Neuroleptic drugs
50. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Conversion disorder
Delusions
Narcolepsy
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)