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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Imitating gestures of others
Parkinson'S
Borderline personality disorder
Mental retardation
Echopraxia (catatonia)
2. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Martin Seligman
Tic disorders
3. Absence of appropriate emotion
American Psychologist
Narcolepsy
Mental retardation
Flat affect
4. 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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5. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Sleep terror
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Phobia
6. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Wernicke'S syndrome
Hypersomnia
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Amphetamines
7. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Disorganized behaviour
Sleep terror
Shared psychotic disorder
Confabulations
8. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Schizophrenia (description)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Down syndrome
9. Inappropriate dress - agitation - shouting
Confabulations
Delusional disorder
Disorganized behaviour
compulsion
10. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Antisocial
Dependent personality disorder
11. 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
PsycINFO database
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Community psychology
Reactive depression
12. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Phobia
retrograde amnesia
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
13. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Narcissistic personality disorder
Life event stress
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Learning disorders
14. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Culturally competent interventions
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Cretinism
15. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Kleptomania
Reactive schizophrenia
Delusional disorder
Schizophrenogenic mother
16. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
DSM (axes)
17. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Life event stress
Reactive depression
Cretinism
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
18. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
retrograde amnesia
Schizophrenogenic mother
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Community psychology
19. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
anterograde amnesia
dopamine
Paranoid personality disorder
pathological gambling
20. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Delusional disorder
Elimination disorders
Somatic delusion
Parasomnias
21. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Trichotillomania
Nightmare
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Agoraphobia
22. Falling asleep uncontrollably during routine daily activity
Wernicke'S syndrome
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Narcolepsy
retrograde amnesia
23. 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
Trichotillomania
Depressive realism
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Panic attack
24. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Life event stress
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Hypochondriasis
25. From thiamine deficiency - memory problems and eye dysfunctions - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
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26. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Residual (schizophrenia)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Stanley Hall
27. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Parkinson'S
Neuroleptic drugs
DSM (description & history)
28. 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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29. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Narcissistic personality disorder
Schizophrenia (onset)
Agoraphobia
30. Type of mother who 'causes' children to become schizophrenic
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Shared psychotic disorder
Schizophrenogenic mother
31. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Depressive realism
pyromania
Generalized anxiety disorder
Borderline personality disorder
32. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Bipolar disorder
Reactive depression
Neuroleptic drugs
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
33. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Paranoid personality disorder
Echolalia (catatonia)
Fugue
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
34. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Paranoid personality disorder
Social phobia
Dependent personality disorder
35. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Echolalia (catatonia)
Avoidant personality disorder
Dependent personality disorder
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
36. 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'
American Psychology Association (APA)
Huntington'S disease
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Down syndrome
37. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Sleep terror
Cretinism
38. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Schizoid personality disorder
Pick'S disease
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
39. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
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40. 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
Flat affect
Delusional disorder
Korsakoff'S syndrome
41. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Developmental disorders
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Bulimia nervosa
DSM (description & history)
42. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Sleep terror
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Dependence
Echolalia (catatonia)
43. Depression resulting from particular events - similar to Martin Seligman'S learned helplessness
Manic symptoms
Culturally competent interventions
Reactive depression
Depressive realism
44. 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)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Mental retardation
45. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Developmental disorders
Wernicke'S syndrome
Paranoid personality disorder
46. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Confabulations
Tay-Sachs disease
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Elimination disorders
47. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Narcolepsy
pyromania
Mental retardation
48. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
Thomas Szasz
pyromania
Panic attack
Developmental disorders
49. 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
Bipolar disorder
Wernicke'S syndrome
David Rosenhan
American Psychologist
50. 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)
Psychological abstracts
Reactive depression
Disorganized (schizophrenia)