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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Manifested by physical or bodily symptoms that cause reduced functioning; conversion disorder - hypochondriasis; formerly 'psychosomatic' disorders
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Generalized anxiety disorder
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Histrionic personality disorder
2. Diathesis-stress theory; physiological predisposition (excess dopamine) paired with external stressor
Schizophrenia (etiology)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Somatic delusion
3. Creating physical complaints through fabrication or self-infliction to assume sick role for attention
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Schizotypal personality disorder
Shared psychotic disorder
Schizophrenia (description)
4. Perhaps use of neologisms
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
anterograde amnesia
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Bulimia nervosa
5. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Schizotypal personality disorder
Process schizophrenia
Schizophrenia (description)
Korsakoff'S syndrome
6. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Schizoaffective disorder
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
7. Founder of American Psychology Association (APA)
Health psychology
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Stanley Hall
8. Irresistible impulse to set fires
Post-traumatic stress disorder
pyromania
Mental retardation
Developmental disorders
9. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Parkinson'S
Hypochondriasis
10. Presence of an identifiable stressor (e.g. divorce) that results in emotional difficulty and decreased function
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Dependent personality disorder
Schizophrenia (etiology)
11. Erroneous or distorted thinking
Delusions
American Psychologist
Fromm and Reichamn
Disorganized behaviour
12. Form of mental retardation caused by iodine deficiency
Elimination disorders
Generalized anxiety disorder
Dependent personality disorder
Cretinism
13. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.
Dyssomnias
Cretinism
Negative symptoms
pyromania
14. Characterized by obsessions or compulsions that are time-consuming - distressing - and disruptive; typical obsessions might be about locking the door - or becoming contaminated; typical compulsions might be checking behaviour - counting - or hand was
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Pick'S disease
Schizoid personality disorder
Factitious disorder (group 9)
15. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Elimination disorders
Parasomnias
16. Persistent thoughts
Somatic delusion
Obsession
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Dementia
17. Delirium and dementia related to Alzheimer'S - Parkinson'S and alcoholism)
Disorganized behaviour
Reactive depression
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
Process schizophrenia
18. Anxiety around social or performance situations
Schizophrenia (description)
Social phobia
Health psychology
Psychological Bulletin
19. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Kleptomania
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Schizophrenia (types)
dopamine
20. Dependence and abuse of various substances
Culturally competent interventions
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Bipolar disorder
Neuroleptic drugs
21. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Narcissistic personality disorder
Wernicke'S syndrome
retrograde amnesia
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
22. 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;
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Health psychology
Major depressive disorder
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
23. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Reactive depression
Fromm and Reichamn
Shared psychotic disorder
David Rosenhan
24. 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
Health psychology
Phobia
Nightmare
Schizophrenia (etiology)
25. 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
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Panic attack
Phobia
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
26. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
Schizophrenogenic mother
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Grandiose delusion
compulsion
27. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Specific phobia
Fugue
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Grandiose delusion
28. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
David Rosenhan
Process schizophrenia
DSM (description & history)
29. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Primary prevention
Stanley Hall
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Elimination disorders
30. Gestures - mannerisms - or grimacing
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Health psychology
Dependence
31. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
diathesis-stress theory
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Alzheimer'S disease
Erotomanic delusion
32. Difficulty falling/staying asleep
Insomnia
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Avoidant personality disorder
anterograde amnesia
33. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
Tardive dyskinesia
Residual (schizophrenia)
Social phobia
34. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
Hypochondriasis
35. Irresistible impulse to steal
diathesis-stress theory
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
dissociative Identity disorder
Kleptomania
36. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
Neuroleptic drugs
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Parkinson'S
37. Binge eating with harmful ways to prevent weight gain (e.g. induced vomiting or laxative use)
Bulimia nervosa
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Reactive depression
Schizoid personality disorder
38. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
DSM (description & history)
Parasomnias
Confabulations
Schizoaffective disorder
39. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
Schizophrenogenic mother
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
Antisocial
40. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Erotomanic delusion
Delusional disorder
Schizophrenia (onset)
Tay-Sachs disease
41. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Specific phobia
Paranoid personality disorder
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
42. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Trichotillomania
Hypochondriasis
Tay-Sachs disease
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
43. 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
Phobia
Elimination disorders
Tic disorders
Culturally competent interventions
44. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Down syndrome
Psychological Bulletin
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Grandiose delusion
45. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Mental retardation
Process schizophrenia
diathesis-stress theory
Residual (schizophrenia)
46. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Borderline personality disorder
pathological gambling
diathesis-stress theory
Paranoid personality disorder
47. Antisocial - borderline - histrionic - narcissistic
Shared psychotic disorder
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
compulsion
Elimination disorders
48. Male with one Y and 2 X chromosomes - hypogonadism and reduced fertility; other physical and behavioural differences and problems with varying severity
49. 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
Major depressive disorder
Sexual and gender identity disorders (group 11; types)
Culturally competent interventions
Dependence
50. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Hypochondriasis
Psychological Bulletin
Depressive realism
Residual (schizophrenia)