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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Amnesia
Stanley Hall
Agoraphobia
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
Conversion disorder
Residual (schizophrenia)
compulsion
Culturally competent interventions
3. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Dependence
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
4. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Schizophrenia (description)
Hypersomnia
Narcissistic personality disorder
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
5. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
pathological gambling
Neuroleptic drugs
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
6. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Trichotillomania
Borderline personality disorder
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Schizophrenogenic mother
7. 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
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Down syndrome
Schizoid personality disorder
Shared psychotic disorder
8. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Tic disorders
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Insomnia
Fromm and Reichamn
9. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Negative symptoms
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Tay-Sachs disease
Learning disorders
10. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Community psychology
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
11. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Martin Seligman
Negative symptoms
Trichotillomania
12. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
anterograde amnesia
Process schizophrenia
Reactive depression
Panic disorder
13. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Insomnia
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
14. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
Thomas Szasz
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Kleptomania
Learning disorders
15. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Parasomnias
Nightmare
16. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Mental retardation
Tay-Sachs disease
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Specific phobia
17. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Somatic delusion
Schizophrenia (description)
Health psychology
DSM (description & history)
18. Parroting
dissociative Identity disorder
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Echolalia (catatonia)
19. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Manic symptoms
pathological gambling
Residual (schizophrenia)
20. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Narcissistic personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Somatic delusion
Depressive realism
21. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Insomnia
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Reactive schizophrenia
22. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
Obsession
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Narcissistic personality disorder
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
23. 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)
Negative symptoms
pyromania
Parkinson'S
24. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Schizophrenia (description)
Bipolar disorder
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
DSM (axes)
25. 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;
Shared psychotic disorder
Hypochondriasis
Echolalia (catatonia)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
26. Excessive sleepiness
dissociative Identity disorder
Trichotillomania
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Hypersomnia
27. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Amnesia
Community psychology
Martin Seligman
Panic attack
28. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Community psychology
Amphetamines
Histrionic personality disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
29. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
Avoidant personality disorder
Delirium
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Agoraphobia
30. Another person is in love with the individual
Erotomanic delusion
pathological gambling
Generalized anxiety disorder
Elimination disorders
31. 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
Alzheimer'S disease
Panic attack
Histrionic personality disorder
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
32. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Social phobia
Life event stress
Psychological Bulletin
Insomnia
33. 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
Delirium
Conversion disorder
Insomnia
Health psychology
34. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Social phobia
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Depressive realism
35. Perhaps use of neologisms
Shared psychotic disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Obsession
36. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Hypersomnia
Mental retardation
Pick'S disease
37. 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
Echolalia (catatonia)
David Rosenhan
Fugue
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
38. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
pyromania
Elimination disorders
39. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
dopamine
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Sleep terror
Schizophrenia (types)
40. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Narcissistic personality disorder
Delusions
Schizotypal personality disorder
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
41. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Shared psychotic disorder
Down syndrome
Agoraphobia
Conversion disorder
42. Tremors with declining neurological functioning; caused by deficient dopamine activity - boost dopamine by drug such as levodopa
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43. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Developmental disorders
American Psychologist
diathesis-stress theory
44. 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'
Pick'S disease
Cretinism
American Psychologist
American Psychology Association (APA)
45. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Generalized anxiety disorder
Paranoid personality disorder
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Insomnia
46. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Bulimia nervosa
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Grandiose delusion
47. Falling asleep uncontrollably during routine daily activity
Narcolepsy
Process schizophrenia
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
48. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Dementia
Parasomnias
Manic symptoms
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
49. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
dissociative Identity disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Manic symptoms
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
50. 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
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Stanley Hall
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Dependence