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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. 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
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Down syndrome
2. 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
Dyssomnias
Schizotypal personality disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Wernicke'S syndrome
3. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
retrograde amnesia
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Bipolar disorder
4. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
Paranoid personality disorder
Residual (schizophrenia)
anterograde amnesia
Hypochondriasis
5. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Somatic delusion
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Nightmare
Dependence
6. Many schizophrenic symptoms not fitting a particular type
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Primary prevention
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
7. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Borderline personality disorder
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Alzheimer'S disease
8. Irresistible impulse to set fires
DSM (description & history)
pyromania
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Hypochondriasis
9. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Histrionic personality disorder
Manic symptoms
Schizotypal personality disorder
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
10. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
pyromania
Tardive dyskinesia
Schizophrenia (types)
Nightmare
11. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Down syndrome
Nightmare
American Psychologist
Somatic delusion
12. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Trichotillomania
Dependent personality disorder
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
13. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Down syndrome
Amphetamines
Hypochondriasis
Echolalia (catatonia)
14. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Avoidant personality disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Somatic delusion
Amnesia
15. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Neuroleptic drugs
Down syndrome
DSM (axes)
Martin Seligman
16. Learned helplessness
Paranoid personality disorder
Agoraphobia
American Psychology Association (APA)
Martin Seligman
17. Perhaps use of neologisms
Major depressive disorder
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Specific phobia
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
18. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Bipolar disorder
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Psychological Bulletin
Antisocial
19. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Delusions
Kleptomania
Schizophrenia (etiology)
pathological gambling
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
Kleptomania
Panic attack
Amphetamines
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
21. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Schizophrenia (types)
Manic symptoms
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
22. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Negative symptoms
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Community psychology
Mental retardation
23. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
compulsion
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Hypochondriasis
Psychological Bulletin
24. 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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25. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Shared psychotic disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Dysthymic disorder
Delusions
26. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Abuse
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
anterograde amnesia
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
27. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Developmental disorders
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Phobia
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
28. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Elimination disorders
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Bulimia nervosa
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
29. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Obsession
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
30. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Bulimia nervosa
Hypersomnia
Pick'S disease
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
31. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Dyssomnias
Tay-Sachs disease
dopamine
32. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Somatic delusion
Schizotypal personality disorder
Social phobia
33. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Panic disorder
Tardive dyskinesia
DSM (axes)
34. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Manic symptoms
Delusional disorder
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Parasomnias
35. Another person is in love with the individual
Reactive depression
Erotomanic delusion
Tic disorders
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
36. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Hypochondriasis
Echolalia (catatonia)
Avoidant personality disorder
37. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Schizoaffective disorder
Flat affect
38. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Manic symptoms
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Primary prevention
39. 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
Parkinson'S
Agoraphobia
Neuroleptic drugs
40. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Psychological Bulletin
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Life event stress
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
41. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Elimination disorders
pyromania
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
42. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Confabulations
Elimination disorders
Trichotillomania
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
43. Type of mother who 'causes' children to become schizophrenic
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Schizophrenogenic mother
Schizoaffective disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder
44. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Social phobia
Schizophrenia (types)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
45. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Fugue
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Borderline personality disorder
Martin Seligman
46. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Narcolepsy
Community psychology
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Reactive depression
47. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Developmental disorders
Schizophrenia (onset)
Negative symptoms
Agoraphobia
48. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
anterograde amnesia
Hypochondriasis
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Borderline personality disorder
49. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
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50. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Neuroleptic drugs
Social phobia
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)