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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Tardive dyskinesia
Confabulations
diathesis-stress theory
Reactive schizophrenia
2. Aka manic depression; indicated by depressive symptoms that alternate with manic symptoms; equally prevalent in genders
Narcissistic personality disorder
Bipolar disorder
Community psychology
Pick'S disease
3. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Disorganized behaviour
pathological gambling
4. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Trichotillomania
Conversion disorder
5. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
retrograde amnesia
Delusional disorder
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
6. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Hypochondriasis
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
7. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Bipolar disorder
Reactive schizophrenia
Elimination disorders
Social phobia
8. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Shared psychotic disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
9. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Schizotypal personality disorder
Fugue
Parasomnias
Specific phobia
10. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Psychological abstracts
Schizophrenogenic mother
Depressive realism
Residual (schizophrenia)
11. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Amnesia
Alzheimer'S disease
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Down syndrome
12. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Tic disorders
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Residual (schizophrenia)
Phobia
13. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Phobia
Tay-Sachs disease
Manic symptoms
Schizoaffective disorder
14. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Mental retardation
Erotomanic delusion
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Phobia
15. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
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16. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
Dysthymic disorder
Schizoid personality disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
Life event stress
17. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Negative symptoms
Bipolar disorder
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
18. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Hypersomnia
Neuroleptic drugs
Dementia
19. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Conversion disorder
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
20. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Schizophrenia (description)
Process schizophrenia
Schizophrenia (onset)
Residual (schizophrenia)
21. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Amnesia
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Schizophrenia (types)
22. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Schizoaffective disorder
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
23. 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
Schizotypal personality disorder
Amnesia
retrograde amnesia
24. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Major depressive disorder
Huntington'S disease
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
25. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
American Psychologist
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Schizotypal personality disorder
Psychological Bulletin
26. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Process schizophrenia
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Tay-Sachs disease
27. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Tic disorders
Learning disorders
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Abuse
28. Persistent delusions of various types: erotomanic - grandiose - jealousy - persecutory - somatic
Fromm and Reichamn
Delusional disorder
Life event stress
Avoidant personality disorder
29. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
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30. 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
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Developmental disorders
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Huntington'S disease
31. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
diathesis-stress theory
Narcissistic personality disorder
Dyssomnias
32. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Borderline personality disorder
pathological gambling
Martin Seligman
Delusions
33. 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
DSM (description & history)
Pick'S disease
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Community psychology
34. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Mental retardation
Delusions
Bipolar disorder
Histrionic personality disorder
35. 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
Down syndrome
dopamine
Health psychology
Delirium
36. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Schizophrenogenic mother
pathological gambling
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
37. Imitating gestures of others
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Tardive dyskinesia
pyromania
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
38. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
Schizophrenia (onset)
Dyssomnias
Disorganized behaviour
Schizophrenia (etiology)
39. Excessive sleepiness
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Stanley Hall
Hypersomnia
Phobia
40. Irresistible impulse to set fires
pyromania
Grandiose delusion
Stanley Hall
Major depressive disorder
41. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Fugue
Amnesia
Antisocial
American Psychology Association (APA)
42. 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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43. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Stanley Hall
Schizoid personality disorder
Schizoaffective disorder
Thomas Szasz
44. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Shared psychotic disorder
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
45. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Abuse
Trichotillomania
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Echolalia (catatonia)
46. Parroting
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Echolalia (catatonia)
Delusions
47. 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
Panic attack
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Primary prevention
48. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
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49. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Martin Seligman
Disorganized behaviour
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
50. Absence of appropriate emotion
Depressive realism
Martin Seligman
Flat affect
Psychological Bulletin