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GRE Psychology: Clinical And Abnormal Psychology 2
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1. Learned helplessness
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Martin Seligman
Tay-Sachs disease
2. Oppositional defiant disorder and conduct disorder; indicated by patterns of behaviour that violate rules - norms - or the rights of others
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Mental retardation
Schizoaffective disorder
3. Korsakoff'S and Wernicke'S syndrome
Disruptive behaviour disorders (2 disorders)
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Confabulations
4. A - odd or eccentric; detachment - small range of emotion
Residual (schizophrenia)
Schizoid personality disorder
dissociative Identity disorder
Tic disorders
5. Forgetting of events that occurred after the trauma
Down syndrome
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Social phobia
anterograde amnesia
6. Aka hebephrenic schizophrenia; indicated by disorganized speech and behaviour - and flat affect
Obsession
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
Parkinson'S
Kleptomania
7. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; instability in relationships and emotions - impulsivity
Specific phobia
Borderline personality disorder
Delusional disorder
Parkinson'S
8. Usually treated with behavioural therapies that expose patient to anxiety-provoking stimulus to change response (i.e. systematic desensitization and flooding)
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Huntington'S disease
Schizophrenia (prognosis)
Specific anxiety disorders (treatment)
9. Ex. autism - indicated by severe problems with social skills - communication - and interests
dopamine
Nightmare
Tay-Sachs disease
Developmental disorders
10. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; shallow or excess emotion - attention-seeking
Histrionic personality disorder
Stanley Hall
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
Tay-Sachs disease
11. Abnormal movements - behaviours - emotions - perceptions during sleep; usually between transitions of wake to non-REM or wake to REM; somnambulism - sleep terrors - etc.
Phobia
Parasomnias
Kleptomania
Generalized anxiety disorder
12. Falling asleep uncontrollably during routine daily activity
Panic disorder
Alzheimer'S disease
Amphetamines
Narcolepsy
13. Suddenly fleeing to a new location - forgetting true identity - and/or establishing a new identity
Fugue
Psychological abstracts
Dementia
Delusions
14. Schizophrenia results from a physiological predisposition (abnormal brain chemistry) paired with an external stressor
Adjustment disorders (group 15)
diathesis-stress theory
Mood disorders (group 6; types)
Delirium - dementia - and amnestic and other cognitive disorders (group 2)
15. Frequently results from large - sudden changes or problems
Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
Life event stress
Dyssomnias
16. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Reactive schizophrenia
Parkinson'S
Eating disorders (group 12; types)
17. Irrational concern about having a serious disease
Erotomanic delusion
Schizophrenia (description)
Hypochondriasis
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
18. Panic attack - generalized anxiety disorder - specific anxiety disorders: panic disorder - agoraphobia - phobia - obsessive-compulsive disorder - post-traumatic stress disorder
Anxiety disorders (group 7; types)
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
Delirium
Schizoid personality disorder
19. Imitating gestures of others
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Echopraxia (catatonia)
Trichotillomania
Borderline personality disorder
20. Indicated by school achievement or standardized scores at least 2 SDs below mean for age and IQ
Tic disorders
Avoidant personality disorder
Delusions
Learning disorders
21. 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;
American Psychology Association (APA)
Obsession
Fromm and Reichamn
DSM IV disorder groups (16)
22. From vitamin B deficiency - loss of memory and orientation - often make up confabulations - Organic disorders that result from years of heavy drinking
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23. Irresistible impulse to set fires
pyromania
Process schizophrenia
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Catalepsy (catatonia)
24. B - dramatic - emotional or erratic; need for admiration - idea of superiority
Narcissistic personality disorder
American Psychology Association (APA)
American Psychologist
Major depressive disorder
25. Irresistble impulse to gamble
Community psychology
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Psychological Bulletin
pathological gambling
26. Mental retardation - learning disorders - developmental disorders - attention-deficit and disruptive behaviour disorders - tic disorders - elimination disorders
Obsessive-compulsive personality disorder
dissociative Identity disorder
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Disorders often diagnosed in childhood/adolescence (group 1; types)
27. 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
Major depressive disorder
Tay-Sachs disease
Narcolepsy
Obsessive-compulsive disorder
28. Reduce dopamine activity by blocking receptors; reducing schizophrenic symptoms (e.g. antipsychotic chlorpromazine); can cause Parkinsonès-like symptoms since they decrease dopamine activity
Neuroleptic drugs
Depressive realism
Undifferentiated (schizophrenia)
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
29. Assumption of 2+ identities that control behavior in different situations; formerly multiple personality disorder
Manic symptoms
Delusional disorder
dissociative Identity disorder
Kleptomania
30. Direct physiological result of a medical problem (e.g. depression due to hypothyroidism)
Mental disorders due to a general medical condition (group 3)
Panic attack
Residual (schizophrenia)
Echolalia (catatonia)
31. Schizophrenogenic mother
Fromm and Reichamn
Schizophrenia (onset)
Social phobia
Hypochondriasis
32. Finding of depressed people tend to be more realistic than nondepressed
Dysthymic disorder
Depressive realism
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Reactive schizophrenia
33. Use increase dopamine activity - produces schizophrenic-like paranoid symptoms
Anorexia nervosa
Disorganized behaviour
Histrionic personality disorder
Amphetamines
34. Symptoms of MDD (i.e. lower mood) are present more days than not for more than 2 years - but never an actual depressive episode
Anorexia nervosa
Insomnia
Dysthymic disorder
Nightmare
35. Repetitive behaviors or mental acts
Culturally competent interventions
Dyssomnias
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
compulsion
36. 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
Bipolar disorder
Culturally competent interventions
Dyssomnias
Borderline personality disorder
37. 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
Delusional disorder
DSM (description & history)
Major depressive disorder
Schizoaffective disorder
38. A - odd or eccentric; eccentricity - distorted reality
Fugue
Agoraphobia
Schizotypal personality disorder
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
39. Indicated by psychomotor disturbance such as catalepsy - excessive motor activity - prominent posturing - echolalia - echopraxia
Substance-related disorders (group 4)
Catatonic (schizophrenia)
Schizophrenogenic mother
Reactive depression
40. Psychology taken into community (community centres or schools) rather than individuals go to clinics and universities; emphasizes respect - recognizes logistics that keep needy people from seeking help
Avoidant personality disorder
Impulse control disorders not elsewhere classified (group 14; types)
Community psychology
Elimination disorders
41. Frequent disruption of sleep because of nightmares
Nightmare
Prominent posturing (catatonia)
Disorganized behaviour
Conversion disorder
42. Schizophrenia develops gradually - lower rate of recovery
Process schizophrenia
Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
pathological gambling
Erotomanic delusion
43. IQ 70 or below; mild 70-55 - moderate 55-40 - severe 40-25 - profound <25
Shared psychotic disorder
Developmental disorders
PsycINFO database
Mental retardation
44. Perhaps use of neologisms
Conversion disorder
Somatoform disorders (group 8; +types)
Panic attack
Nonsensical or disorganized speech
45. Frequent disruption of sleep because of screaming or crying
Dementia
Sleep terror
Parasomnias
Agoraphobia
46. Recessive - infant disease - excess amino acids - inborn error of metabolism
Primary prevention
Reactive depression
Phenylketonuria (PKU)
Disorganized (schizophrenia)
47. Major player in the physiology of various disorders - too much dopamine activity is believed to cause schizophrenia
Positive symptoms (schizophrenia)
diathesis-stress theory
Cretinism
dopamine
48. Hallucinations or delusions are present; schizophrenia - schizoaffective disorder - delusional disorder - shared psychotic disorder
dissociative Identity disorder
Hypochondriasis
Confabulations
Psychotic disorder (group 5; +types)
49. Characterized by rigid - pervasive - culturally abnormal personality; A (odd or eccentric) - B (dramatic - emotional or erratic) - C (anxious or fearful)
Schizoid personality disorder
Hypochondriasis
Personality disorders (group 16; +types)
Sleep disorders (group 13; types)
50. Anxiety in response to a stimulus (e.g. flying - heights - needles - or driving)
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Fugue
Specific phobia
Phobia