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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Perhaps use of neologisms
Phobia
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Schizophrenogenic mother
Hypochondriasis
2. 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
Major depressive disorder
Hypochondriasis
Culturally competent interventions
Schizoaffective disorder
3. From vitamin B deficiency - loss of memory and orientation - often make up confabulations - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
4. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Fromm and Reichamn
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Histrionic personality disorder
5. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Antisocial
Wernicke'S syndrome
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
6. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Grandiose delusion
Manic symptoms
Depressive realism
Bulimia nervosa
7. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
compulsion
Generalized anxiety disorder
Learning disorders
Histrionic personality disorder
8. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia
Mental retardation
Parasomnias
Neuroleptic drugs
dopamine
9. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
dissociative Identity disorder
Tic disorders
Pick'S disease
10. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
11. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Schizoid personality disorder
Huntington'S disease
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Learning disorders
12. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
American Psychologist
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Narcissistic personality disorder
Martin Seligman
13. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
Bulimia nervosa
Delirium
Dyssomnias
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
14. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Parasomnias
Obsession
Developmental disorders
Cretinism
15. Cognitive problems (memory - spatial tasks - or language) that result from a medical condition; may be result of Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S - Huntington'S - or Pick'S disease
Narcissistic personality disorder
Dementia
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
16. Parroting
Avoidant personality disorder
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Echolalia (catatonia)
17. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania
Amphetamines
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Negative symptoms
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
18. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Social phobia
Reactive depression
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Kleptomania
19. Excessive sleepiness
Schizophrenia (onset)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Hypersomnia
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
20. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
pathological gambling
Thomas Szasz
21. 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
Community psychology
DSM (description & history)
Alzheimer'S disease
22. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Anorexia nervosa
Huntington'S disease
Schizophrenia (onset)
Elimination disorders
23. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Avoidant personality disorder
Cretinism
Huntington'S disease
Dementia
24. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Specific phobia
Dependent personality disorder
Trichotillomania
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
25. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Agoraphobia
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Hypochondriasis
26. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Bipolar disorder
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Dysthymic disorder
PsycINFO database
27. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Somatic delusion
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Life event stress
Fromm and Reichamn
28. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
Thomas Szasz
Panic attack
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Dyssomnias
29. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
30. Many schizophrenic symptoms not fitting a particular type
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
American Psychology Association (APA)
Process schizophrenia
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
31. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Dysthymic disorder
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Dependence
32. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Dyssomnias
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Phobia
33. 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
Mental retardation
Down syndrome
Schizophrenia (onset)
Major depressive disorder
34. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Mental retardation
diathesis-stress theory
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
35. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Trichotillomania
Elimination disorders
pathological gambling
36. Studies biological - behavioural and social impacts on health and illness; Important finding: increased stress leads to higher likelihood of sickness - social support is associated with better health outcomes
diathesis-stress theory
Primary prevention
Health psychology
Neuroleptic drugs
37. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
DSM (description & history)
Antisocial
Tic disorders
Cretinism
38. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
Anorexia nervosa
Dependence
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
39. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Fugue
Schizophrenogenic mother
Disorganized behaviour
Martin Seligman
40. 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
Schizotypal personality disorder
Bulimia nervosa
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
41. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
American Psychologist
Dysthymic disorder
Reactive schizophrenia
42. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Parasomnias
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Bulimia nervosa
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
43. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Down syndrome
Specific phobia
Avoidant personality disorder
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
44. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
pyromania
anterograde amnesia
Sleep terror
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
45. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Psychological Bulletin
Schizoid personality disorder
46. 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
Fugue
Panic attack
Narcolepsy
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
47. Indicated by some combination of: continued use despite substance-related problems; need for increased amount; desire but inability to stop use; withdrawal; lessening of outside interests; much time getting - using - or recovering from substance
Conversion disorder
Bipolar disorder
Dependence
Wernicke'S syndrome
48. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Amphetamines
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Community psychology
Tardive dyskinesia
49. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
pathological gambling
Panic disorder
Tic disorders
Somatic delusion
50. Manifested by physical or bodily symptoms that cause reduced functioning; conversion disorder - hypochondriasis; formerly 'psychosomatic' disorders
Disorganized behaviour
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Histrionic personality disorder
Echopraxia (catatonia)