Exam I Dr. J Definitions Flashcards

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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

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Affect

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Inability to enjoy anything, even things once enjoyed

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Anhedonic

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A delusion that involves a phenomenon that the persons culture would regard as totally implausible

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Bizarre delusion

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Repeated and abrupt halt to speech as a result of losing one’s train of thought

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Blocking

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Slowed thinking incorporating unnecessary trivial details. Eventually the goal of the though is reached

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Ccircustantiality

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Speech in which words are chosen because of their sounds rather than their meanings

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Clang

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Thinking characterized almost exclusively by immediate sensory experience, rather than cognate abstractions

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Concrete thinking

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A plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered

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Confabulation

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A pattern of speech in which a persons ideas slip off one track onto another that is completely unrelated

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Derailment

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10
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Difficulty producing speech

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Dysarthria

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11
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Feeling unwell or unhappy

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Dysphoric

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12
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The repetition or echoing of verbal utterances made by another person

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Echolalia

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13
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Preoccupation with oneself

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Egomania

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14
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An exaggerated feeling of well-being or elation

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Euphoric

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15
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Mood in the normal range, neither depressed or elevated

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Euthymic

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16
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Speech consists of a steam of accelerated thoughts with abrupt changes from topic to topic with no central direction

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Flight of ideas

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17
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The sharing of a fantasy by two closely associated friends

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Folic a deaux

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18
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A disturbance in the form of thinking rather than an abnormality content

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Formal thought disorder

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19
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Hallucination of taste

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Gustatory hallucination

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20
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Bad breath

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Halitosis

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21
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A mental state in which the person has continual hallucinations

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Hallucinosis

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22
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Threatening hallucinations at the moment of falling asleep

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Hypnagogic hallucinations

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23
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Threatening hallucinations at the moment of waking from sleep

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Hynopompic hallucination

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Abnormal anxiety about ones health; the persistent neurotic conviction that one is or is likely to become ill

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Hypochondria

25
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The belief that ones partner is sexually unfaithful

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Infidelity delusion

26
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Repeated and rapid shifts from one extreme to another

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Labeled

27
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Hallucination that people or objects are smaller than they appear

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Lilliputian hallucination

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Speech characterized by slipping from one train of thought to another loosely related train of thought

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Loosening

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The belief that ones thoughts, words or actions will cause or prevent a specific outcome in some way that defies commonly understood laws of nature

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Magical thinking

30
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Seeing everything in the filed of view as smaller than in really it

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Microplasia

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Hallucination in which the content is mood appropriate

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Mood-congruent hallucination

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Hallucination in which the content is not mood appropriate

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Mood-incongruent hallucination

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Unable or unwilling to speak

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Mutism

34
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Opposition or resistance, either convert or overt, to outside suggestions or advice

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Negativism

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The use of a newly made up word, or an everyday word send in an idiosyncratic way

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Neologism

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The delusion of non-existence of the self or part of the self

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Nihilistic delusion

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Mental operations carry on past the point that they serve a function. Ex) what day is it? Monday what time is it? Monday

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Preservation

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Speech that conveys little information because it is vague

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Poverty of content

39
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Less speech than normal

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Poverty of speech

40
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Speech that conveys little information because of vagueness, empty repetitions, or stereotyped or obscure phases

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Poverty of thought

41
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Describes a morbid increase in action or movements presumed to result from psychic rather than physical disturbances

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Pychomotor Agitation

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The lack of ability to evaluate the external world objectively and to differentiate adequately between it and the internal world

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Reality testing

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A delusion centered on the idea that events, objects, or other persons in ones environment have a particular and unusual significance

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Referential delusion

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A delusion whose main content pertains to the appearance or funcitoning of ones own body

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Somatic delusion

45
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Hallucination involving the sensation of being strangled, feeling that insects are crawling beneath the skin, or feeling of sexual stimulation

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Somatic hallucination

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A very sleepy state

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Somnolence

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The hallucination of a sense other than the one being stimulated stimulated. For example, a sound may evoke sensations of color

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Synesthesia hallucination

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A single false belief with multiple elaborations or a sgroup of false beliefs that the person relates to a single event or theme

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Systematized delusion

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Habitually untalkative

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Taciturn

50
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Hallucination of touch

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Tactile hallucination

51
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Replying to a question in an oblique or irrelevant way

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Tangentiality

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The belief tha ones thoughts are being broadcasted out loud so that they can be perceived by other s

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Thought broadcasting

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The belief that certain of ones thoughts are not ones own, but rather are inserted into ones mind

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Thought insertion

54
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The belief that one would like to think a thought, but someone or something has removed that thought

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Thought withdrawal

55
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Part of the body moves repeatedly, quickly, suddenly, and uncontrollably

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Tic

56
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Speech that is an incoherent and incomprehensible mix of words and phrases

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Word salad