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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Specific phobia
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
DSM (axes)
Avoidant personality disorder
2. 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
Kleptomania
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Schizoid personality disorder
Panic attack
3. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
David Rosenhan
dopamine
4. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Panic attack
Nightmare
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Dependent personality disorder
5. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Tay-Sachs disease
Psychological Bulletin
Huntington'S disease
Flat affect
6. One has special talent or status
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Psychological Bulletin
dopamine
Grandiose delusion
7. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Amphetamines
Histrionic personality disorder
Bulimia nervosa
American Psychologist
8. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Residual (schizophrenia)
Trichotillomania
Anorexia nervosa
9. 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
Schizotypal personality disorder
DSM (axes)
Bipolar disorder
Abuse
10. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Somatic delusion
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Sleep terror
11. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
American Psychology Association (APA)
Obsession
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Developmental disorders
12. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Parasomnias
Conversion disorder
Huntington'S disease
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
13. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
retrograde amnesia
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Generalized anxiety disorder
14. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Schizoaffective disorder
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Agoraphobia
Generalized anxiety disorder
15. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Bulimia nervosa
Life event stress
Fugue
16. 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
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Phobia
pathological gambling
17. 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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18. Excessive sleepiness
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Hypersomnia
Community psychology
19. Tremors with declining neurological functioning; caused by deficient dopamine activity - boost dopamine by drug such as levodopa
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20. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Life event stress
Health psychology
Learning disorders
21. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
Tardive dyskinesia
Neuroleptic drugs
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Cretinism
22. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Depressive realism
Residual (schizophrenia)
Cretinism
Echolalia (catatonia)
23. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
Stanley Hall
Delirium
anterograde amnesia
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
24. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Tay-Sachs disease
Bipolar disorder
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Down syndrome
25. Depression resulting from particular events - similar to Martin Seligman'S learned helplessness
Reactive depression
Major depressive disorder
Pick'S disease
Residual (schizophrenia)
26. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Shared psychotic disorder
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Negative symptoms
Sleep terror
27. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
dopamine
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Learning disorders
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
28. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
Process schizophrenia
Schizophrenia (types)
Histrionic personality disorder
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
29. Perhaps use of neologisms
Avoidant personality disorder
DSM (axes)
Amphetamines
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
30. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
Bipolar disorder
DSM (description & history)
Residual (schizophrenia)
Delusional disorder
31. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Cretinism
Generalized anxiety disorder
Hypersomnia
32. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Disorganized behaviour
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Neuroleptic drugs
33. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Wernicke'S syndrome
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Social phobia
Down syndrome
34. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
compulsion
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Alzheimer'S disease
Negative symptoms
35. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Amphetamines
Panic disorder
Bulimia nervosa
36. Irresistible impulse to steal
Schizophrenogenic mother
Kleptomania
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Nightmare
37. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
DSM (description & history)
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
diathesis-stress theory
Schizotypal personality disorder
38. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia
Culturally competent interventions
Narcolepsy
Narcissistic personality disorder
dopamine
39. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Agoraphobia
Process schizophrenia
Avoidant personality disorder
Dysthymic disorder
40. Irresistble impulse to gamble
pathological gambling
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
41. Parroting
Grandiose delusion
Echolalia (catatonia)
Neuroleptic drugs
Confabulations
42. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Obsession
Dependent personality disorder
Schizotypal personality disorder
43. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Schizophrenia (description)
anterograde amnesia
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Elimination disorders
44. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Mental retardation
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Bulimia nervosa
Somatic delusion
45. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Neuroleptic drugs
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Delirium
Generalized anxiety disorder
46. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Dysthymic disorder
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
pathological gambling
Tardive dyskinesia
47. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Tay-Sachs disease
Down syndrome
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Schizophrenia (etiology)
48. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
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49. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
American Psychology Association (APA)
Borderline personality disorder
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Primary prevention
50. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Paranoid personality disorder
Nightmare
Antisocial
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)