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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Imitating gestures of others
Tardive dyskinesia
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
2. 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
Narcissistic personality disorder
Health psychology
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Social phobia
3. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Schizotypal personality disorder
Developmental disorders
Klinefelter'S syndrome
4. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Schizophrenogenic mother
Borderline personality disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Tic disorders
5. Male with one Y and 2 X chromosomes - hypogonadism and reduced fertility; other physical and behavioural differences and problems with varying severity
6. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Thomas Szasz
Disorganized behaviour
Paranoid personality disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
7. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Tic disorders
Generalized anxiety disorder
Insomnia
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
8. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Generalized anxiety disorder
Sleep terror
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Delirium
9. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Thomas Szasz
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Depressive realism
10. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
retrograde amnesia
American Psychologist
Agoraphobia
Developmental disorders
11. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Grandiose delusion
Depressive realism
Delirium
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
12. Inappropriate dress - agitation - shouting
Down syndrome
Schizotypal personality disorder
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Disorganized behaviour
13. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Obsession
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Bulimia nervosa
14. Recurrent use despite substance-related problems or danger
Abuse
Manic symptoms
Community psychology
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
15. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Specific phobia
Thomas Szasz
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Dependent personality disorder
16. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Obsession
American Psychologist
Schizophrenia (types)
Flat affect
17. Irresistible impulse to set fires
pyromania
Martin Seligman
Negative symptoms
Thomas Szasz
18. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Pick'S disease
Narcissistic personality disorder
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
19. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Delusions
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
American Psychologist
20. 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
Generalized anxiety disorder
Culturally competent interventions
compulsion
Factitious disorder (group 9)
21. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
anterograde amnesia
Paranoid personality disorder
Avoidant personality disorder
22. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
compulsion
Tay-Sachs disease
Reactive schizophrenia
Martin Seligman
23. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Hypersomnia
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
DSM (description & history)
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
24. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
Shared psychotic disorder
Schizophrenia (types)
Disorganized behaviour
Conversion disorder
25. Online format of Psychological Abstracts; access all psychology abstracts catalogued under search
PsycINFO database
Delirium
Elimination disorders
Tardive dyskinesia
26. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Generalized anxiety disorder
compulsion
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Sleep terror
27. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Kleptomania
Psychological Bulletin
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
28. 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
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
David Rosenhan
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Cretinism
29. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Process schizophrenia
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
30. Manifested by physical or bodily symptoms that cause reduced functioning; conversion disorder - hypochondriasis; formerly 'psychosomatic' disorders
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Sleep terror
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
DSM (description & history)
31. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Dependence
Antisocial
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Amphetamines
32. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Wernicke'S syndrome
PsycINFO database
Confabulations
Parasomnias
33. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Obsession
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Narcissistic personality disorder
34. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Specific phobia
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
American Psychologist
35. Parroting
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Mental retardation
Echolalia (catatonia)
pyromania
36. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Reactive depression
Elimination disorders
Schizophrenia (etiology)
37. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Stanley Hall
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Schizophrenia (types)
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
38. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
Amphetamines
compulsion
Factitious disorder (group 9)
dissociative Identity disorder
39. Inability to recall information relating to trauma
Delusional disorder
Narcolepsy
Erotomanic delusion
Amnesia
40. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Reactive schizophrenia
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Histrionic personality disorder
41. Absence of appropriate emotion
Flat affect
Fugue
Disorganized behaviour
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
42. Perhaps use of neologisms
Erotomanic delusion
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Fromm and Reichamn
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
43. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Hypochondriasis
Sleep terror
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Psychological abstracts
44. Irresistible impulse to steal
Pick'S disease
Primary prevention
Panic attack
Kleptomania
45. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Anorexia nervosa
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
46. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Obsession
Stanley Hall
47. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Negative symptoms
Bipolar disorder
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Insomnia
48. Persistent thoughts
Narcissistic personality disorder
Phobia
Obsession
Depressive realism
49. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Alzheimer'S disease
Tay-Sachs disease
Avoidant personality disorder
Schizophrenia (description)
50. Motor immobility or waxy figure
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
retrograde amnesia
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Grandiose delusion