Affect

Question 1

Appropriate affect

Answer 1

The normal condition in which emotional tone is in harmony with the accompanying idea thought or speech

Question 2

Inappropriate affect

Answer 2

Disparity between emotional feeling tone of idea thought and speech accompanying it

Question 3

Blunted affect

Answer 3

A disturbance of affect manifested by a serve reduction in the intensity of externalised feeling

Question 4

Restricted or constricted affect

Answer 4

A reduction in the intensity of feeling tone

less severe than blunted affect but clearly reduced

Question 5

Flat affect

Answer 5

Absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression voice monotonous face immobile

Question 6

Labile affect

Answer 6

Rapid and abrupt changes in emotional feeling tone unrelated to external stimuli