Ch 33 Key Terms

Question 1

behavior

Answer 1

an individual’s actions or reactions in response to external or internal stimuli.

Question 2

behavioral emergency

Answer 2

a situation in which a person acts in a way that is unacceptable or intolerable to others and oftentimes poses a danger to themselves or others.

Question 3

dependent lividity

Answer 3

a purplish discoloration of the skin in the lowest parts of the body due to the settling of blood following death; also called livor mortis.

Question 4

depression

Answer 4

a clinical state marked by feelings of sadness and self-loathing.

Question 5

livor mortis

Answer 5

a purplish discoloration of the skin in the lowest parts of the body due to the settling of blood following death; also called dependent lividity.

Question 6

crisis

Answer 6

a state of emotional turmoil within an individual in which the balance between thoughts and emotions is lost.

Question 7

neurosis

Answer 7

a condition in which a person exhibits abnormal behavior but remains able to understand the normal boundaries of reality.

Question 8

positional asphyxia

Answer 8

a fatal condition in which a patient’s body weight impairs the ability to breathe, resulting in suffocation.

Question 9

psychosis

Answer 9

a condition in which a person exhibits abnormal behavior and has altered perceptions of reality.

Question 10

reasonable force

Answer 10

the minimum force needed to keep a patient from hurting himself or others.

Question 11

restraint

Answer 11

any method, physical or mechanical, that restricts the movement of a patient.

Question 12

rigor mortis

Answer 12

stiffening of the body after death.

Question 13

schizophrenia

Answer 13

a psychiatric disorder in which a person cannot distinguish what is real from what is not real.

Question 14

suicide

Answer 14

the intentional taking of one’s own life.