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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)
DSM (axes)
Specific phobia
American Psychologist
Echopraxia (catatonia)
2. Recognized - unreasonable - intense anxiety symptoms and avoidance of a stimulus; specific and social
Phobia
Conversion disorder
Echolalia (catatonia)
David Rosenhan
3. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Agoraphobia
Delirium
Schizoaffective disorder
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
4. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Tardive dyskinesia
Confabulations
Dyssomnias
Histrionic personality disorder
5. One has special talent or status
Learning disorders
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Grandiose delusion
Residual (schizophrenia)
6. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Culturally competent interventions
David Rosenhan
Neuroleptic drugs
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
7. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Schizophrenogenic mother
Major depressive disorder
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Kleptomania
8. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Antisocial
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Process schizophrenia
9. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Paranoid personality disorder
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Delusions
10. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.
Martin Seligman
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Dyssomnias
Neuroleptic drugs
11. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
Amnesia
anterograde amnesia
Schizoaffective disorder
Primary prevention
12. 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
dopamine
Negative symptoms
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Panic attack
13. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Amphetamines
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
14. Dependence and abuse of various substances
pathological gambling
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
15. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
Learning disorders
Delusional disorder
Delirium
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
16. 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
Tic disorders
Somatic delusion
Narcissistic personality disorder
Culturally competent interventions
17. Learned helplessness
Tay-Sachs disease
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Nightmare
Martin Seligman
18. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Wernicke'S syndrome
Tardive dyskinesia
19. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Obsession
Primary prevention
Schizotypal personality disorder
Alzheimer'S disease
20. C - anxious or fearful; social inhibitions hypersensitivity - perceptions of inadequacy
Anorexia nervosa
Avoidant personality disorder
Obsession
Social phobia
21. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Echolalia (catatonia)
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Primary prevention
American Psychologist
22. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Shared psychotic disorder
Amphetamines
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Tardive dyskinesia
23. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Disorganized behaviour
Conversion disorder
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Schizoaffective disorder
24. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Amnesia
Generalized anxiety disorder
Erotomanic delusion
25. E.g. believing a part of the body is ugly of misshapen
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Nightmare
Schizoid personality disorder
Somatic delusion
26. Tremors with declining neurological functioning; caused by deficient dopamine activity - boost dopamine by drug such as levodopa
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27. Problems with attention - behaviour - and impulsivity; frequently treated with stimulants (e.g. Ritalin® and Adderall®)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Elimination disorders
Parkinson'S
Sleep terror
28. Parroting
Borderline personality disorder
Echolalia (catatonia)
Negative symptoms
Reactive schizophrenia
29. Persistent thoughts
Parasomnias
Paranoid personality disorder
Martin Seligman
Obsession
30. 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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31. 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
DSM (description & history)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Dependence
Pick'S disease
32. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Sleep terror
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Grandiose delusion
Huntington'S disease
33. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Anorexia nervosa
Negative symptoms
Histrionic personality disorder
Mental retardation
34. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Generalized anxiety disorder
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
35. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Specific phobia
Manic symptoms
Thomas Szasz
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
36. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Reactive schizophrenia
dopamine
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
37. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
Fugue
Stanley Hall
Conversion disorder
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
38. Range from fetishes to arousal problems to gender discomfort; desire - arousal - orgasmic - and sexual pain disorders
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
dopamine
Delirium
Neuroleptic drugs
39. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Parasomnias
Health psychology
Kleptomania
Mental retardation
40. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Mental retardation
Delirium
Life event stress
Process schizophrenia
41. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
dissociative Identity disorder
Hypochondriasis
Residual (schizophrenia)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
42. Another person is in love with the individual
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Trichotillomania
Avoidant personality disorder
Erotomanic delusion
43. Paranoid - schizoid - schizotypal
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Psychological abstracts
Thomas Szasz
Fromm and Reichamn
44. Published bimonthly by APA; various papers ranging from literature reviews to quantitative reviews
Reactive depression
Schizophrenia (onset)
Psychological Bulletin
Somatic delusion
45. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Borderline personality disorder
Tay-Sachs disease
Developmental disorders
Catalepsy (catatonia)
46. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Schizophrenogenic mother
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Panic attack
Insomnia
47. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Martin Seligman
anterograde amnesia
Trichotillomania
48. From thiamine deficiency - memory problems and eye dysfunctions - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
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49. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Delirium
Paranoid personality disorder
Schizophrenia (types)
Trichotillomania
50. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
diathesis-stress theory
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech