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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Schizophrenia (onset)
Psychological Bulletin
Anorexia nervosa
2. 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
Delirium
Agoraphobia
Generalized anxiety disorder
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
3. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
anterograde amnesia
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Trichotillomania
4. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Psychological Bulletin
Panic disorder
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
5. 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
Amnesia
Alzheimer'S disease
Negative symptoms
6. 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)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Hypochondriasis
Paranoid personality disorder
7. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Primary prevention
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
8. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Delirium
Pick'S disease
Manic symptoms
9. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania
Developmental disorders
Parasomnias
Martin Seligman
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
10. 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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11. Depression resulting from particular events - similar to Martin Seligman'S learned helplessness
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Reactive depression
Panic attack
Erotomanic delusion
12. Schizophrenogenic mother
Fromm and Reichamn
Hypochondriasis
Somatic delusion
Panic disorder
13. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Mental retardation
Dysthymic disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Narcissistic personality disorder
14. Parroting
Community psychology
Echolalia (catatonia)
Reactive schizophrenia
DSM (description & history)
15. 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
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Thomas Szasz
Grandiose delusion
16. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Flat affect
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Avoidant personality disorder
Echolalia (catatonia)
17. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Somatic delusion
Pick'S disease
Antisocial
Phobia
18. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Nightmare
anterograde amnesia
Parkinson'S
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
19. 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
DSM (axes)
Bulimia nervosa
Schizoid personality disorder
Social phobia
20. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Life event stress
Antisocial
anterograde amnesia
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
21. Imitating gestures of others
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Neuroleptic drugs
Parkinson'S
Flat affect
22. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Amphetamines
Delirium
Confabulations
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
23. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Agoraphobia
Elimination disorders
Reactive depression
Specific phobia
24. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Down syndrome
Sleep terror
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
25. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Factitious disorder (group 9)
dopamine
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Tay-Sachs disease
26. 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
Neuroleptic drugs
Culturally competent interventions
Amnesia
Developmental disorders
27. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Alzheimer'S disease
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
28. Inappropriate dress - agitation - shouting
Narcolepsy
Down syndrome
Obsession
Disorganized behaviour
29. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Amphetamines
pyromania
Depressive realism
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
30. Irresistible impulse to steal
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Tay-Sachs disease
Kleptomania
31. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Antisocial
Schizoaffective disorder
Learning disorders
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
32. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
American Psychology Association (APA)
Neuroleptic drugs
Wernicke'S syndrome
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
33. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Thomas Szasz
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
retrograde amnesia
Process schizophrenia
34. Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence; delirium - dementia - other cognitive disorders; mental disorders due to a general medical condition; substance-related disorders; schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders; mood disorders;
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Insomnia
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
35. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
Conversion disorder
Neuroleptic drugs
Parkinson'S
Delusional disorder
36. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Residual (schizophrenia)
Panic disorder
37. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Flat affect
Delusional disorder
Echopraxia (catatonia)
38. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Generalized anxiety disorder
Thomas Szasz
Depressive realism
Conversion disorder
39. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
Developmental disorders
Schizoaffective disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Manic symptoms
40. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Hypochondriasis
pathological gambling
retrograde amnesia
Avoidant personality disorder
41. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
compulsion
Trichotillomania
Stanley Hall
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
42. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Schizophrenogenic mother
Community psychology
Depressive realism
Grandiose delusion
43. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Phobia
Life event stress
Somatic delusion
44. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Schizophrenia (onset)
Schizoaffective disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Kleptomania
45. Exposure to trauma that results in decreased ability to function and recurrent thoughts and anxiety about the incident; often linked to war veterans or victims of violence
Amphetamines
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Specific phobia
Kleptomania
46. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
retrograde amnesia
Stanley Hall
47. 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
Psychological abstracts
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Disorganized behaviour
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
48. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Trichotillomania
Paranoid personality disorder
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Life event stress
49. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Generalized anxiety disorder
Bipolar disorder
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Antisocial
50. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Generalized anxiety disorder
Schizophrenia (description)
Agoraphobia
Antisocial