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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Specific phobia
Echolalia (catatonia)
Cretinism
2. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Wernicke'S syndrome
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Developmental disorders
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
3. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Huntington'S disease
Grandiose delusion
4. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Dyssomnias
Negative symptoms
Martin Seligman
5. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Delusional disorder
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
retrograde amnesia
Schizophrenogenic mother
6. Manifested by physical or bodily symptoms that cause reduced functioning; conversion disorder - hypochondriasis; formerly 'psychosomatic' disorders
Schizophrenia (description)
Pick'S disease
Culturally competent interventions
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
7. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Manic symptoms
Cretinism
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
8. Mental disorders - diagnostic criteria - official numerical codes - first published 1952 - for clinical - research and educational use; 4th edition 1994 - text revision 2000 - DSM V 2012
Shared psychotic disorder
DSM (description & history)
Neuroleptic drugs
Dysthymic disorder
9. 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
Health psychology
Alzheimer'S disease
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Dementia
10. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Stanley Hall
Confabulations
Depressive realism
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
11. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
Delusional disorder
Tay-Sachs disease
Thomas Szasz
Delusions
12. Tremors with declining neurological functioning; caused by deficient dopamine activity - boost dopamine by drug such as levodopa
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13. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
Reactive depression
American Psychologist
Cretinism
dissociative Identity disorder
14. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Borderline personality disorder
Parasomnias
Process schizophrenia
Huntington'S disease
15. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Dependent personality disorder
Psychological abstracts
16. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Schizophrenia (types)
Disorganized behaviour
retrograde amnesia
American Psychologist
17. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Echolalia (catatonia)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Schizoaffective disorder
18. 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
Generalized anxiety disorder
Borderline personality disorder
David Rosenhan
American Psychology Association (APA)
19. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Trichotillomania
Hypochondriasis
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Dysthymic disorder
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
Panic disorder
Panic attack
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Insomnia
21. Many schizophrenic symptoms not fitting a particular type
Agoraphobia
Sleep terror
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
22. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Echolalia (catatonia)
Delusions
Histrionic personality disorder
23. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Developmental disorders
Disorganized behaviour
Elimination disorders
24. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Generalized anxiety disorder
Psychological Bulletin
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
pathological gambling
25. 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
Dependence
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Pick'S disease
Klinefelter'S syndrome
26. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Obsession
Abuse
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Fugue
27. 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'
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
American Psychology Association (APA)
Schizotypal personality disorder
28. Formerly dementia praecox - renamed by Eugene Bleuler as 'Split mind' from reality; symptoms may be positive or negative
Tardive dyskinesia
Schizophrenia (description)
Narcissistic personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
29. Falling asleep uncontrollably during routine daily activity
Narcolepsy
Parkinson'S
DSM (description & history)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
30. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
anterograde amnesia
Health psychology
Paranoid personality disorder
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
31. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Reactive depression
diathesis-stress theory
Delusions
32. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
Schizophrenia (types)
anterograde amnesia
Hypochondriasis
Down syndrome
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
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Primary prevention
Dysthymic disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
34. Irresistible impulse to set fires
pyromania
Reactive depression
Borderline personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
35. 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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36. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; indicated by patterns of behaviour that violate rules - norms - or the rights of others
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Cretinism
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
PsycINFO database
37. One has special talent or status
Histrionic personality disorder
retrograde amnesia
compulsion
Grandiose delusion
38. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Delusions
Erotomanic delusion
Schizophrenia (onset)
39. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Obsession
Process schizophrenia
Elimination disorders
Bulimia nervosa
40. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Shared psychotic disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Somatic delusion
41. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Tardive dyskinesia
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Confabulations
42. Irresistible impulse to steal
Phobia
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Kleptomania
Post-traumatic stress disorder
43. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
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44. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Stanley Hall
Negative symptoms
Grandiose delusion
Insomnia
45. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Schizophrenogenic mother
Anorexia nervosa
Echolalia (catatonia)
Reactive schizophrenia
46. 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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47. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Cretinism
Tardive dyskinesia
Manic symptoms
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
48. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger
Bulimia nervosa
Somatic delusion
Abuse
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
49. 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
Developmental disorders
Agoraphobia
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Alzheimer'S disease
50. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Echolalia (catatonia)
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
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