Chapter 3 Vocab Flashcards
Assessment
How are we going to diagnose you (DSM)
Auditory Hallucination
Hearing something that isn’t really there
Compulsion
action or behavior
Delusion
False belief, idea that’s not true
Dysphoric Mood
Not happy
Euphoric Mood
Happy
Gustatory Hallucination
Taste that isn’t really there
Hallucination
False perception, having a sense of something that isn’t there
Affect
External expression of your moods
Mood
What is inside of you (only you know your mood, internal state of our emotion)
Obsession
You can’t stop thinking about something, unwanted thought that won’t go away
Olfactory Hallucination
Smell that isn’t really there
Objective Test
Paper and pen, you know what they are asking
Projective Test
You are projecting your personality, you don’t know what they are asking
Somatic Hallucination
Bodily feeling that isn’t really there
Tactile Hallucination
Touch that isn’t really there
Visual Hallucination
Seeing something that isn’t really there
Inappropriate Affect
Affect doesn’t fit situation (good grade but sad)
Intensity of Affect
Supper happy or super unhappy
Range of Affect
Flat affect-robotic
Strong affect-excited
Sense of Self
Who am I
Depersonalization
People don’t feel like they are real
Identity Confusion
Someone doesn’t know who they are
Reliability
Measures the same thing consistently
Validity
Measures what it is supposed to measure
DSM
Diagnostic and Statistic Manual of Mental Disorders by Psychiatric Association (first published in 1952 and most recent in 2013, revised in 2022)
Neurosis
Less severe (anxiety, depression)
Psychosis
More severe, hallucinations and delusions
Diagnosis
Symptom led to diagnosis
GAF Scale (Global Assessment of Functioning)
Measures psychological functioning
