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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
diathesis-stress theory
Life event stress
2. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
David Rosenhan
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Antisocial
3. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Erotomanic delusion
Negative symptoms
Delusional disorder
4. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
Major depressive disorder
Anorexia nervosa
Tic disorders
Schizoid personality disorder
5. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Down syndrome
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
6. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
pyromania
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
7. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Amphetamines
Panic attack
Depressive realism
Narcolepsy
8. Parroting
Disorganized behaviour
Shared psychotic disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Echolalia (catatonia)
9. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Residual (schizophrenia)
Bipolar disorder
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
10. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Flat affect
American Psychology Association (APA)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Conversion disorder
11. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Stanley Hall
Phobia
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder
12. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Process schizophrenia
Dementia
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
13. 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
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Nightmare
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
14. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Echolalia (catatonia)
Panic disorder
Dementia
15. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Erotomanic delusion
Tardive dyskinesia
Schizophrenia (types)
Pick'S disease
16. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Somatic delusion
Tay-Sachs disease
Primary prevention
17. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Mental retardation
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Dementia
Psychological Bulletin
18. 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)
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Reactive schizophrenia
Abuse
19. Another person is in love with the individual
Community psychology
Erotomanic delusion
Wernicke'S syndrome
Reactive schizophrenia
20. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Stanley Hall
Tic disorders
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
21. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Psychological abstracts
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
American Psychologist
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
22. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Manic symptoms
Shared psychotic disorder
Huntington'S disease
Dependent personality disorder
23. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Psychological Bulletin
Health psychology
Developmental disorders
Negative symptoms
24. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
pathological gambling
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
25. Imitating gestures of others
Amphetamines
Delusional disorder
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
26. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Wernicke'S syndrome
Stanley Hall
Confabulations
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
27. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Schizophrenia (etiology)
PsycINFO database
Negative symptoms
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
28. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Borderline personality disorder
Developmental disorders
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
29. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Schizophrenia (description)
David Rosenhan
Schizophrenia (types)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
30. 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;
Tic disorders
Major depressive disorder
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Tay-Sachs disease
31. Tremors with declining neurological functioning; caused by deficient dopamine activity - boost dopamine by drug such as levodopa
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32. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Stanley Hall
Manic symptoms
Histrionic personality disorder
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
33. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
Schizoid personality disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Stanley Hall
compulsion
34. Irresistible impulse to steal
Disorganized behaviour
Amnesia
Kleptomania
Manic symptoms
35. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Martin Seligman
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Insomnia
Bipolar disorder
36. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Wernicke'S syndrome
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Manic symptoms
37. 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
pyromania
Martin Seligman
Elimination disorders
38. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Schizophrenogenic mother
Psychological abstracts
Tardive dyskinesia
Primary prevention
39. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
Agoraphobia
Narcolepsy
Erotomanic delusion
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
40. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Panic attack
Psychological Bulletin
Nightmare
Hypochondriasis
41. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Schizoaffective disorder
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Amphetamines
American Psychologist
42. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Neuroleptic drugs
Learning disorders
Developmental disorders
Bulimia nervosa
43. 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
PsycINFO database
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Down syndrome
Grandiose delusion
44. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
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45. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Dependence
Narcissistic personality disorder
Schizoaffective disorder
Agoraphobia
46. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
DSM (description & history)
Fugue
Parkinson'S
pathological gambling
47. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Erotomanic delusion
Schizoid personality disorder
Negative symptoms
Dysthymic disorder
48. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Abuse
Bulimia nervosa
Cretinism
49. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Avoidant personality disorder
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
DSM (description & history)
50. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
American Psychology Association (APA)
Schizophrenia (onset)
Primary prevention
Dependence