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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Manic symptoms
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Kleptomania
Shared psychotic disorder
2. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Kleptomania
Insomnia
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
3. Excessive sleepiness
Hypersomnia
Abuse
Dependence
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
4. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Agoraphobia
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Community psychology
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
5. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Narcolepsy
Post-traumatic stress disorder
6. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Tardive dyskinesia
Mental retardation
Psychological abstracts
dopamine
7. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Major depressive disorder
Delirium
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
8. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Amphetamines
Sleep terror
Antisocial
9. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Process schizophrenia
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Parasomnias
10. 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
DSM (axes)
Down syndrome
American Psychology Association (APA)
Negative symptoms
11. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Reactive depression
Post-traumatic stress disorder
12. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Avoidant personality disorder
Schizoaffective disorder
Grandiose delusion
Trichotillomania
13. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Stanley Hall
Down syndrome
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Community psychology
14. 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
Anorexia nervosa
David Rosenhan
Agoraphobia
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
15. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
pyromania
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Fromm and Reichamn
Schizophrenia (types)
16. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
17. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Erotomanic delusion
Bulimia nervosa
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
18. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Borderline personality disorder
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Schizophrenia (description)
19. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Residual (schizophrenia)
Narcissistic personality disorder
Somatic delusion
20. Parroting
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Echolalia (catatonia)
American Psychologist
Alzheimer'S disease
21. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Schizoid personality disorder
Dyssomnias
Korsakoff'S syndrome
22. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Bulimia nervosa
Kleptomania
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Fugue
23. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Narcolepsy
Dependence
Tay-Sachs disease
Tardive dyskinesia
24. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Negative symptoms
Fugue
25. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Dysthymic disorder
Schizoaffective disorder
Cretinism
26. Irresistible impulse to set fires
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Dyssomnias
Insomnia
pyromania
27. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
Tardive dyskinesia
Flat affect
Parkinson'S
dissociative Identity disorder
28. Erroneous or distorted thinking
American Psychology Association (APA)
Negative symptoms
Delusions
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
29. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Elimination disorders
DSM (description & history)
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Flat affect
30. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
DSM (description & history)
Culturally competent interventions
Delusional disorder
Social phobia
31. 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
Health psychology
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Culturally competent interventions
Wernicke'S syndrome
32. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
pathological gambling
pyromania
Sleep terror
Post-traumatic stress disorder
33. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Grandiose delusion
Phobia
Schizophrenia (etiology)
American Psychology Association (APA)
34. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
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35. Fear of a situation that might arise panic symptoms - and escape would be difficult; usually fear and avoidance of being outside the home or in crowds
Phobia
Cretinism
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Agoraphobia
36. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
David Rosenhan
Alzheimer'S disease
Nightmare
Martin Seligman
37. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
Paranoid personality disorder
diathesis-stress theory
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
38. 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
Schizotypal personality disorder
Echolalia (catatonia)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
39. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
Schizophrenia (description)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Narcolepsy
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
40. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Trichotillomania
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Parasomnias
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
41. 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
Major depressive disorder
Schizophrenia (onset)
Wernicke'S syndrome
Dementia
42. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Abuse
Psychological Bulletin
Dementia
Fromm and Reichamn
43. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Primary prevention
Health psychology
Avoidant personality disorder
44. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Fugue
Primary prevention
Confabulations
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
45. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Histrionic personality disorder
Tic disorders
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Delusions
46. One has special talent or status
anterograde amnesia
Tardive dyskinesia
Grandiose delusion
Community psychology
47. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Dysthymic disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
48. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
Nightmare
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Flat affect
Manic symptoms
49. 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
Flat affect
Panic attack
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
DSM (axes)
50. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Alzheimer'S disease
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Schizophrenia (etiology)
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