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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2

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1. 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






2. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual






3. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any






4. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities






5. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations






6. Frequently treated with anxiolytics






7. 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






8. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual






9. Made up events to fill in memory gaps






10. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity






11. Irresistible impulse to set fires






12. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt






13. 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






14. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification






15. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania






16. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts






17. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion






18. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology






19. Cognitive problems (memory - spatial tasks - or language) that result from a medical condition; may be result of Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S - Huntington'S - or Pick'S disease






20. Perhaps use of neologisms






21. (Not book definition) an irreversible - progressive brain disorder - characterized by the deterioration of memory - language - and eventually - physical functioning

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22. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ






23. Motor immobility or waxy figure






24. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour






25. 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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26. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)






27. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect






28. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions






29. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.






30. Irrational concern about having a serious disease






31. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)






32. Persistent thoughts






33. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder






34. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma






35. 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






36. 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






37. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour






38. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome






39. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism






40. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization






41. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated






42. Index published by APA - found at most major libraries; montly compilation of 'nonevaluative summaries of the world'S literature in psychology'; in each issue - article abstracts arranged by topic; hardcopy version of PsycINFO






43. 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






44. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.






45. Parroting






46. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes






47. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor






48. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement

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49. Tremors with declining neurological functioning; caused by deficient dopamine activity - boost dopamine by drug such as levodopa

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50. Irresistble impulse to gamble