Exam I Dr. J Definitions Flashcards
The pattern of observable behaviors which is the expression of a subjectively experienced feeling state (emotion) and is variable over time in response to changing emotional states
Affect
Inability to enjoy anything, even things once enjoyed
Anhedonic
A delusion that involves a phenomenon that the persons culture would regard as totally implausible
Bizarre delusion
Repeated and abrupt halt to speech as a result of losing one’s train of thought
Blocking
Slowed thinking incorporating unnecessary trivial details. Eventually the goal of the though is reached
Ccircustantiality
Speech in which words are chosen because of their sounds rather than their meanings
Clang
Thinking characterized almost exclusively by immediate sensory experience, rather than cognate abstractions
Concrete thinking
A plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
Confabulation
A pattern of speech in which a persons ideas slip off one track onto another that is completely unrelated
Derailment
Difficulty producing speech
Dysarthria
Feeling unwell or unhappy
Dysphoric
The repetition or echoing of verbal utterances made by another person
Echolalia
Preoccupation with oneself
Egomania
An exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation
Euphoric
Mood in the normal range, neither depressed or elevated
Euthymic
Speech consists of a steam of accelerated thoughts with abrupt changes from topic to topic with no central direction
Flight of ideas
The sharing of a fantasy by two closely associated friends
Folic a deaux
A disturbance in the form of thinking rather than an abnormality content
Formal thought disorder
Hallucination of taste
Gustatory hallucination
Bad breath
Halitosis
A mental state in which the person has continual hallucinations
Hallucinosis
Threatening hallucinations at the moment of falling asleep
Hypnagogic hallucinations