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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Refusing to eat enough to maintain healthy weight; excessive concern about obesity
Disorganized behaviour
Mental retardation
Anorexia nervosa
Schizotypal personality disorder
2. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Life event stress
David Rosenhan
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Korsakoff'S syndrome
3. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Sleep terror
Down syndrome
Martin Seligman
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
4. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Psychological Bulletin
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Life event stress
Abuse
5. Persistent thoughts
Elimination disorders
Schizophrenia (onset)
Primary prevention
Obsession
6. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Process schizophrenia
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Schizophrenia (types)
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
7. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
Histrionic personality disorder
Schizoaffective disorder
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
8. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
pyromania
Borderline personality disorder
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Social phobia
9. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Tardive dyskinesia
Reactive depression
Specific phobia
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
10. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
compulsion
DSM (axes)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
11. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Echolalia (catatonia)
Pick'S disease
Learning disorders
Fromm and Reichamn
12. Online format of Psychological Abstracts; access all psychology abstracts catalogued under search
Phobia
PsycINFO database
Grandiose delusion
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
13. 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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14. Depressive episode by depressed mood - loss of interests - changes in weight or sleep - low energy - feelings of worthlessness - or thoughts of death; symptoms are present nearly every day for at least two weeks; females 2x likelier to be diagnosed;
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Tardive dyskinesia
Major depressive disorder
15. 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
Delusions
Health psychology
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
16. 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
Mental retardation
Amnesia
Dependence
Psychological abstracts
17. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
Thomas Szasz
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
anterograde amnesia
Stanley Hall
18. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Reactive depression
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Neuroleptic drugs
Narcissistic personality disorder
19. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Borderline personality disorder
Abuse
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Korsakoff'S syndrome
20. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Schizophrenogenic mother
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Shared psychotic disorder
21. Manifested by physical or bodily symptoms that cause reduced functioning; conversion disorder - hypochondriasis; formerly 'psychosomatic' disorders
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Echolalia (catatonia)
Erotomanic delusion
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
22. Dyssomnias and parasomnias; insomnia - hypersomnia - narcolepsy - nightmare - sleep terror
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Erotomanic delusion
Fromm and Reichamn
Histrionic personality disorder
23. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Social phobia
Wernicke'S syndrome
Somatic delusion
Korsakoff'S syndrome
24. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Panic disorder
Sleep terror
Stanley Hall
Korsakoff'S syndrome
25. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
compulsion
Insomnia
Amnesia
Alzheimer'S disease
26. 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
pyromania
Down syndrome
Paranoid personality disorder
Schizophrenia (onset)
27. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Abuse
Neuroleptic drugs
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
28. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Parasomnias
Schizoid personality disorder
Huntington'S disease
29. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Antisocial
Trichotillomania
pyromania
Delusional disorder
30. 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
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
31. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
Amnesia
Reactive depression
Thomas Szasz
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
32. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Wernicke'S syndrome
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
33. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Stanley Hall
Specific phobia
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
DSM (description & history)
34. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Cretinism
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
DSM (description & history)
35. 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;
Neuroleptic drugs
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Parasomnias
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
36. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Nightmare
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Social phobia
Bulimia nervosa
37. Disease of the frontal and temporal lobes of the brain characterized by changes in personality
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38. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Pick'S disease
Abuse
Residual (schizophrenia)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
39. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Parasomnias
Bipolar disorder
Paranoid personality disorder
Tardive dyskinesia
40. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Amphetamines
Schizophrenogenic mother
41. 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
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
DSM (description & history)
Delusional disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
42. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Community psychology
Mental retardation
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Dyssomnias
43. Excessive sleepiness
Antisocial
Thomas Szasz
Hypersomnia
Generalized anxiety disorder
44. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Anorexia nervosa
Schizophrenia (onset)
Avoidant personality disorder
45. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning
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46. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Bipolar disorder
Parasomnias
Health psychology
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
47. 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
Agoraphobia
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Elimination disorders
48. Irresistible impulse to steal
Agoraphobia
Kleptomania
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Abuse
49. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Social phobia
Hypersomnia
Nightmare
Health psychology
50. Inappropriate dress - agitation - shouting
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Kleptomania
Abuse
Disorganized behaviour