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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Excessive sleepiness
Hypersomnia
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Residual (schizophrenia)
Dysthymic disorder
2. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Schizoaffective disorder
dissociative Identity disorder
Grandiose delusion
3. Avoidant - dependent - obsessive-compulsive
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Grandiose delusion
Echolalia (catatonia)
Narcissistic personality disorder
4. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Schizophrenia (onset)
Schizoaffective disorder
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Flat affect
5. Genetically inherited progressive degeneration of thought - emotion - and movement
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6. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
Hypochondriasis
Process schizophrenia
Negative symptoms
Panic disorder
7. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Neuroleptic drugs
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Tay-Sachs disease
8. Ex. Tourette'S syndrome is indicated by motor and vocal tics
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Tic disorders
Abuse
9. Schizophrenogenic mother
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Tardive dyskinesia
Fromm and Reichamn
Primary prevention
10. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Social phobia
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Hypersomnia
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
11. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Nightmare
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Elimination disorders
Dementia
12. Perhaps use of neologisms
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
dissociative Identity disorder
Shared psychotic disorder
DSM (axes)
13. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Cretinism
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Dysthymic disorder
Thomas Szasz
14. 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
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Echolalia (catatonia)
Huntington'S disease
15. Psychological problems converted to bodily symptoms; generally relate to voluntary movement and may be manifested as 'paralysis'; formerly known as 'hysteria' by Freud
Insomnia
Conversion disorder
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Confabulations
16. Imitating gestures of others
Residual (schizophrenia)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
DSM (axes)
Panic attack
17. 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
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Dementia
Major depressive disorder
Generalized anxiety disorder
18. 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
Panic attack
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
19. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Schizoid personality disorder
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Specific phobia
20. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
compulsion
Major depressive disorder
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. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Delusions
Paranoid personality disorder
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Parkinson'S
23. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
Histrionic personality disorder
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Pick'S disease
24. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
Parasomnias
Culturally competent interventions
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Thomas Szasz
25. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Dementia
Depressive realism
Neuroleptic drugs
26. Indicated by disturbed consciousness (awareness - attention - focus) and cognition (memory disorientation)
Delirium
Kleptomania
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Klinefelter'S syndrome
27. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.
Social phobia
Dyssomnias
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Confabulations
28. 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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29. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Specific phobia
Pick'S disease
Neuroleptic drugs
Schizotypal personality disorder
30. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Sleep terror
Parasomnias
dissociative Identity disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
31. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Dysthymic disorder
Insomnia
Fugue
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
32. 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
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Negative symptoms
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
DSM (description & history)
33. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Histrionic personality disorder
Social phobia
Psychological Bulletin
Sleep terror
34. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Pick'S disease
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Specific phobia
Kleptomania
35. 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
Paranoid personality disorder
Dyssomnias
Down syndrome
Dependent personality disorder
36. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Reactive depression
Hypochondriasis
Shared psychotic disorder
Delusional disorder
37. Major depressive disorder - dysthymic disorder - bipolar disorder
Shared psychotic disorder
Bulimia nervosa
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Mental retardation
38. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Dementia
Kleptomania
Sleep terror
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
39. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Schizophrenogenic mother
Specific phobia
Hypersomnia
Hypochondriasis
40. Persistent thoughts
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Obsession
Neuroleptic drugs
Schizoid personality disorder
41. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Agoraphobia
Amphetamines
Culturally competent interventions
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
42. Irresistible impulse to steal
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Wernicke'S syndrome
Kleptomania
Borderline personality disorder
43. Learned helplessness
Major depressive disorder
Martin Seligman
DSM (description & history)
Parkinson'S
44. Schizophrenia develops suddenly in response to a particular event - higher rate of recovery
Dyssomnias
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Reactive schizophrenia
45. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Schizophrenia (onset)
Delirium
Borderline personality disorder
Community psychology
46. Schizophrenic symptoms accompanying a depressive episode
Insomnia
Primary prevention
Schizoaffective disorder
Major depressive disorder
47. C - anxious or fearful; dependence and clinginess to others
Culturally competent interventions
Dependent personality disorder
Paranoid personality disorder
compulsion
48. 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
PsycINFO database
Reactive depression
Dependence
Klinefelter'S syndrome
49. Forgetting of events that occurred before the trauma
PsycINFO database
Narcolepsy
Post-traumatic stress disorder
retrograde amnesia
50. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
anterograde amnesia
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Dependence
Cretinism