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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Life event stress
Grandiose delusion
Parkinson'S
2. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
DSM (description & history)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Echolalia (catatonia)
Tay-Sachs disease
3. Falling asleep uncontrollably during routine daily activity
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Narcolepsy
Disorganized behaviour
Schizotypal personality disorder
4. Inflated self-esteem - decreased sleep - talkativeness - flight of ideas - intense goal-directed activity - excessive pleasure-seeking
Manic symptoms
Nightmare
Life event stress
Down syndrome
5. 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
Dependence
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
6. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Community psychology
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Shared psychotic disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
7. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Major depressive disorder
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
8. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Conversion disorder
9. Type of mother who 'causes' children to become schizophrenic
Neuroleptic drugs
Schizophrenogenic mother
Echolalia (catatonia)
Depressive realism
10. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Grandiose delusion
Hypochondriasis
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
11. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Echolalia (catatonia)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Panic attack
12. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Fugue
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
13. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
David Rosenhan
Process schizophrenia
Factitious disorder (group 9)
14. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Pick'S disease
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Conversion disorder
15. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
Delirium
Culturally competent interventions
Mental retardation
Developmental disorders
16. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Residual (schizophrenia)
Bipolar disorder
Martin Seligman
17. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
dopamine
Echolalia (catatonia)
Schizotypal personality disorder
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
18. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Delirium
Antisocial
Major depressive disorder
19. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Schizophrenia (onset)
Community psychology
Negative symptoms
Schizophrenia (etiology)
20. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
pyromania
Obsession
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
21. 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
Amnesia
DSM (axes)
Panic attack
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
22. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
Sleep terror
retrograde amnesia
Anorexia nervosa
Panic attack
23. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Manic symptoms
Panic attack
24. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Narcolepsy
pathological gambling
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Generalized anxiety disorder
25. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
Panic attack
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
26. Excessive sleepiness
Major depressive disorder
Hypersomnia
Cretinism
Huntington'S disease
27. Onset between late adolescence and mid-30s; process vs. reactive
Schizophrenia (onset)
Parasomnias
Schizophrenia (types)
Tardive dyskinesia
28. Schizophrenogenic mother
Sleep terror
Somatic delusion
Disorganized behaviour
Fromm and Reichamn
29. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Social phobia
Hypersomnia
Schizoaffective disorder
Depressive realism
30. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Borderline personality disorder
retrograde amnesia
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
31. Irresistible impulse to steal
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Huntington'S disease
Kleptomania
Schizotypal personality disorder
32. Manifested by physical or bodily symptoms that cause reduced functioning; conversion disorder - hypochondriasis; formerly 'psychosomatic' disorders
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Learning disorders
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
33. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Community psychology
Delirium
Hypochondriasis
Negative symptoms
34. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger
Abuse
Amnesia
Community psychology
Confabulations
35. 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
Schizophrenogenic mother
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
36. Recurrent panic attacks - persistent worry about another attack; often accompanied by mitral valve heart problem
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Panic disorder
Korsakoff'S syndrome
37. Irresistible impulse to pull out one'S own body hair
Trichotillomania
Confabulations
Martin Seligman
DSM (axes)
38. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Community psychology
Insomnia
Manic symptoms
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
39. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Alzheimer'S disease
Delusional disorder
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
40. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Nightmare
Learning disorders
Narcissistic personality disorder
Factitious disorder (group 9)
41. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Stanley Hall
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Dependence
Wernicke'S syndrome
42. Absence of appropriate emotion
Flat affect
PsycINFO database
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Specific phobia
43. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Culturally competent interventions
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Paranoid personality disorder
Dependent personality disorder
44. 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
Culturally competent interventions
Parasomnias
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Parkinson'S
45. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Tardive dyskinesia
Anorexia nervosa
Schizophrenia (description)
Fugue
46. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Tay-Sachs disease
Stanley Hall
Amnesia
Depressive realism
47. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania
Flat affect
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Life event stress
48. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Panic disorder
Martin Seligman
Wernicke'S syndrome
Amphetamines
49. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia
Mental retardation
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
dopamine
50. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Neuroleptic drugs
Generalized anxiety disorder
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
David Rosenhan