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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Schizotypal personality disorder
Shared psychotic disorder
Manic symptoms
Amnesia
2. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
PsycINFO database
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
3. Schizophrenogenic mother
Fromm and Reichamn
Reactive schizophrenia
David Rosenhan
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
4. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Schizophrenogenic mother
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
5. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Phobia
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Bulimia nervosa
Tay-Sachs disease
6. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
Grandiose delusion
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
American Psychology Association (APA)
7. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Tic disorders
pyromania
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
8. Prevent documented psychosocial problems through contact with an at-risk group; proactive intervention; e.g. prenatal health care - Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) - and Head Start
Community psychology
Cretinism
Primary prevention
Stanley Hall
9. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Culturally competent interventions
Flat affect
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
10. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
Dementia
Trichotillomania
Agoraphobia
Delirium
11. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Paranoid personality disorder
Depressive realism
Bipolar disorder
Dependent personality disorder
12. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Specific phobia
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
13. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Delirium
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Tic disorders
Phobia
14. Anxiety around social or performance situations
DSM (axes)
Social phobia
Health psychology
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
15. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
diathesis-stress theory
Sleep terror
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
16. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Hypersomnia
Dependent personality disorder
Confabulations
17. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Cretinism
Stanley Hall
Delusional disorder
18. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Tic disorders
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
19. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Delusions
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Residual (schizophrenia)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
20. 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
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Panic attack
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
21. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
Schizoaffective disorder
Parasomnias
Developmental disorders
Abuse
22. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Hypersomnia
Obsession
Reactive depression
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
23. Perhaps use of neologisms
Dementia
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
anterograde amnesia
Community psychology
24. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Martin Seligman
Manic symptoms
David Rosenhan
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
25. Manifested by physical or bodily symptoms that cause reduced functioning; conversion disorder - hypochondriasis; formerly 'psychosomatic' disorders
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Huntington'S disease
26. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Conversion disorder
American Psychology Association (APA)
Schizophrenia (description)
27. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Nightmare
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Process schizophrenia
28. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
Conversion disorder
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
David Rosenhan
Hypochondriasis
29. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Alzheimer'S disease
Dependent personality disorder
Narcolepsy
Residual (schizophrenia)
30. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Kleptomania
Depressive realism
Bulimia nervosa
PsycINFO database
31. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Shared psychotic disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Manic symptoms
Schizoid personality disorder
32. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
Bulimia nervosa
Fromm and Reichamn
DSM (axes)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
33. Persistent thoughts
Obsession
Primary prevention
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
34. 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
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Obsession
Anorexia nervosa
35. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Dependent personality disorder
Delusions
Fugue
36. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Community psychology
Erotomanic delusion
Schizotypal personality disorder
Bulimia nervosa
37. Another person is in love with the individual
Erotomanic delusion
Echolalia (catatonia)
Fromm and Reichamn
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
38. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Negative symptoms
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
39. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Tardive dyskinesia
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Schizophrenogenic mother
Echopraxia (catatonia)
40. 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
dissociative Identity disorder
Health psychology
Martin Seligman
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
41. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
Process schizophrenia
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Parasomnias
42. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
DSM (axes)
Grandiose delusion
Major depressive disorder
Elimination disorders
43. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Dysthymic disorder
Social phobia
Somatic delusion
Histrionic personality disorder
44. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Learning disorders
Depressive realism
Confabulations
Neuroleptic drugs
45. 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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46. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Dependence
diathesis-stress theory
Tay-Sachs disease
Neuroleptic drugs
47. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
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48. 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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49. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia
Kleptomania
dopamine
Sleep terror
Schizophrenia (description)
50. Absence of appropriate emotion
Flat affect
Delusions
Psychological abstracts
Confabulations