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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Tic disorders
Dysthymic disorder
Echolalia (catatonia)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
2. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Narcissistic personality disorder
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Process schizophrenia
3. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
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4. 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;
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Schizophrenia (types)
Hypochondriasis
5. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger
Abuse
Tay-Sachs disease
Generalized anxiety disorder
Cretinism
6. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
Manic symptoms
compulsion
Avoidant personality disorder
Social phobia
7. Tremors with declining neurological functioning; caused by deficient dopamine activity - boost dopamine by drug such as levodopa
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8. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Somatic delusion
Stanley Hall
Delusions
Schizoid personality disorder
9. Parroting
Hypersomnia
Agoraphobia
Echolalia (catatonia)
Schizophrenia (types)
10. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Life event stress
Residual (schizophrenia)
Martin Seligman
Tic disorders
11. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Social phobia
Manic symptoms
Primary prevention
Negative symptoms
12. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Psychological abstracts
Huntington'S disease
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Bipolar disorder
13. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Conversion disorder
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
14. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Narcolepsy
Grandiose delusion
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
15. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Negative symptoms
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Primary prevention
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
16. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Fugue
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Dependence
17. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
DSM (axes)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Delusional disorder
Specific phobia
18. Another person is in love with the individual
Erotomanic delusion
Avoidant personality disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Kleptomania
19. Perhaps use of neologisms
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Parkinson'S
Confabulations
20. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
pyromania
Hypersomnia
anterograde amnesia
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
21. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
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22. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Histrionic personality disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
23. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Fugue
Tardive dyskinesia
Sleep terror
Hypersomnia
24. Online format of Psychological Abstracts; access all psychology abstracts catalogued under search
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Schizophrenogenic mother
Generalized anxiety disorder
PsycINFO database
25. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Fugue
American Psychologist
Major depressive disorder
Residual (schizophrenia)
26. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Panic disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
27. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Tay-Sachs disease
Tardive dyskinesia
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Hypochondriasis
28. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Reactive depression
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
29. Learned helplessness
Learning disorders
Martin Seligman
Dementia
American Psychologist
30. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Kleptomania
Abuse
Health psychology
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
31. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Abuse
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
32. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Mental retardation
Cretinism
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Huntington'S disease
33. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Dysthymic disorder
Echolalia (catatonia)
Huntington'S disease
34. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Conversion disorder
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Process schizophrenia
Psychological Bulletin
35. 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
Abuse
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
pyromania
Primary prevention
36. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Parkinson'S
retrograde amnesia
Fugue
Phobia
37. 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'
anterograde amnesia
Pick'S disease
DSM (axes)
American Psychology Association (APA)
38. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Schizoid personality disorder
Dependent personality disorder
39. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Amnesia
Residual (schizophrenia)
Martin Seligman
Parasomnias
40. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Conversion disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Grandiose delusion
41. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Parasomnias
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Martin Seligman
Life event stress
42. 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
anterograde amnesia
Dyssomnias
Dementia
Huntington'S disease
43. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Manic symptoms
Amphetamines
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
44. Multiaxial assessment - across five axes; clinical disorders and other conditions (group 1-15); personality disorders (group 16); General medical conditions; Psychosocial and environmental problems; Global assessment of functioning
Developmental disorders
Paranoid personality disorder
Insomnia
DSM (axes)
45. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Specific phobia
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Hypochondriasis
Trichotillomania
46. 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
Community psychology
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Negative symptoms
Dementia
47. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Echolalia (catatonia)
Schizoid personality disorder
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Somatic delusion
48. Imitating gestures of others
Fugue
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Pick'S disease
Psychological abstracts
49. 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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50. Manifested by physical or bodily symptoms that cause reduced functioning; conversion disorder - hypochondriasis; formerly 'psychosomatic' disorders
diathesis-stress theory
Community psychology
dopamine
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)