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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
Post-traumatic stress disorder
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Kleptomania
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
2. Paranoid - disorganized - catatonic - undifferentiated - residual
Tardive dyskinesia
Schizophrenia (types)
Phobia
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
3. Watered-down schizophrenia with few positive symptoms - if any
Dependent personality disorder
Residual (schizophrenia)
Avoidant personality disorder
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
4. Can result from long-term use of neuroleptics or psychotropics; characterized by involuntary - repetitive movements of tongue - jaw - or extremities
Shared psychotic disorder
Tardive dyskinesia
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Trichotillomania
5. Indicated by preoccupation with delusions or auditory hallucinations
dopamine
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Process schizophrenia
6. Frequently treated with anxiolytics
Panic attack
Antisocial
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Generalized anxiety disorder
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
Disorganized behaviour
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Culturally competent interventions
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
8. One with a history of good social and interpersonal skills likelier to recover than antisocial individual
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Learning disorders
Parasomnias
Cluster A personality (odd or eccentric disorders)
9. Made up events to fill in memory gaps
Confabulations
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Conversion disorder
Depressive realism
10. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Health psychology
Mental retardation
Fugue
Generalized anxiety disorder
11. Irresistible impulse to set fires
pathological gambling
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
pyromania
Developmental disorders
12. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; disregard for rights of others - absence of guilt
Schizophrenogenic mother
Antisocial
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Schizophrenia (description)
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
Dependence
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Erotomanic delusion
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
14. Ex. Nocturnal enuresis - bed wetting - usually treated with behaviour modification
Elimination disorders
Factitious disorder (group 9)
Erotomanic delusion
Schizophrenogenic mother
15. Irresistible urge dictates behaviour - giving in lessens tension - though disruptive to overall functioning; kleptomania - pyromania - pathological gambling - trichotillomania
Conversion disorder
Disorganized behaviour
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Specific phobia
16. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
Grandiose delusion
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
compulsion
17. A - odd or eccentric; distrust - suspicion
Klinefelter'S syndrome
Social phobia
Paranoid personality disorder
Amphetamines
18. Official APA journal - published monthly; archival - current issue - theoretical - and practical articles from all psychology
Learning disorders
American Psychologist
Cluster C personality (anxious or fearful disorders)
Schizophrenia (types)
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
American Psychology Association (APA)
Dementia
Insomnia
Fromm and Reichamn
20. Perhaps use of neologisms
Kleptomania
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
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
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
Learning disorders
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Anorexia nervosa
23. Motor immobility or waxy figure
pyromania
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Erotomanic delusion
Catalepsy (catatonia)
24. Abnormally present; delusions - perceptual hallucinations - nonsensical or disorganized speech - disorganized behaviour
Conversion disorder
Hypochondriasis
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
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)
Social phobia
Delirium
Disorganized behaviour
Borderline personality disorder
27. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
American Psychology Association (APA)
Obsession
28. Aka folie a deux; when two people have shared delusions
Shared psychotic disorder
Tardive dyskinesia
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Psychological Bulletin
29. Sleep abnormalities; hypersomnia - narcolepsy - etc.
Dyssomnias
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Antisocial
pyromania
30. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Histrionic personality disorder
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
Hypochondriasis
Stanley Hall
31. Recessive - genetic deficiency of hexosaminidase A; symptoms that resemble psychological disorders (e.g. schizophrenia or dementia)
Tay-Sachs disease
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Process schizophrenia
dopamine
32. Persistent thoughts
American Psychology Association (APA)
Obsession
pathological gambling
DSM (axes)
33. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Paranoid personality disorder
Confabulations
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
34. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
Dependent personality disorder
Alzheimer'S disease
Delirium
anterograde amnesia
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
David Rosenhan
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
Korsakoff'S syndrome
Schizotypal personality disorder
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
Panic attack
Echolalia (catatonia)
Wernicke'S syndrome
Schizophrenogenic mother
37. Abnormally absent; includes flat affect or restrictions in thought - speech - or behaviour
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
pathological gambling
Negative symptoms
Dementia
38. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Catalepsy (catatonia)
Dysthymic disorder
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Somatic delusion
39. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Huntington'S disease
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
40. Involve disruption of memory or identity; formerly psychogenic disorders; retrograde and anterograde amnesia - fugue - identity disorder - depersonalization
Cluster B personality (dramatic - emotional or erratic disorders)
compulsion
Dissociative disorders (group 10; +types)
Elimination disorders
41. Viewed schizophrenic world as simply misunderstood or artistic; felt they should not be treated
Thomas Szasz
Schizophrenia (onset)
Health psychology
Paranoid (schizophrenia)
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
Down syndrome
Shared psychotic disorder
Psychological abstracts
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
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
Reactive depression
Flat affect
DSM (description & history)
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
44. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Dependent personality disorder
Dysthymic disorder
Parasomnias
Tardive dyskinesia
45. Parroting
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Echolalia (catatonia)
Panic attack
Huntington'S disease
46. C - anxious or fearful; excessive orderliness and control - perfectionism - rigid conformity to rules and moral codes
Huntington'S disease
dopamine
diathesis-stress theory
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
47. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
Residual (schizophrenia)
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
diathesis-stress theory
Schizophrenia (types)
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
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
pathological gambling
Schizoaffective disorder
Erotomanic delusion