CNS 4 (Behavior) Flashcards
Repetitive behaviors that the person feels driven to perform in response to an obsession, aimed at preventing or reducing anxiety or a dreaded event or situation; these behaviors are excessive and unrealistically connected to the provoking stimulus
Compulsions
Recurrent persistent thoughts, images, or urges experienced as intrusive and unwanted that the person tries to ignore, suppress, or neutralize with other thoughts or actions (for example, performing a compulsive behavior)
Obsessions
Persistent irrational fears, accompanied by a compelling desire to avoid the provoking stimulus
Phobias
Apprehensive anticipation of future danger or misfortune accompanied by feelings of worry, distress, and/or somatic symptoms of tension.
Anxieties
A sense that the environment is strange, unreal, or remote
Feelings of Unreality
A sense that one’s self or identity is different, changed, unreal; lost; or detached from one’s mind or body
Feelings of Depersonalization
False fixed personal beliefs that are not amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence; types of delusions include:
● Persecutory
● Grandiose
● Jealous
● Erotomanic—the belief than another person is in love with the individual
● Somatic—involves bodily functions or sensations
● Unspecified—includes delusions of reference without a prominent persecutory or grandiose component, or the belief that external events, objects, or people have a particular and unusual personal significance (for example, commands from the radio or television)
Delusions
Misinterpretations of real external stimuli, such as mistaking rustling leaves for the sound of voices
Illusions
Perception-like experiences that seem real but, unlike illusions, lack actual external stimulation. The person may or may not recognize the experiences as false. It may be auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory, tactile, or somatic. False perceptions associated with dreaming, falling asleep, and awakening are not classified as this.
Hallucinations
