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
Threatening hallucinations at the moment of waking from sleep
Hynopompic hallucination
Abnormal anxiety about ones health; the persistent neurotic conviction that one is or is likely to become ill
Hypochondria
The belief that ones partner is sexually unfaithful
Infidelity delusion
Repeated and rapid shifts from one extreme to another
Labeled
Hallucination that people or objects are smaller than they appear
Lilliputian hallucination
Speech characterized by slipping from one train of thought to another loosely related train of thought
Loosening
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
Magical thinking
Seeing everything in the filed of view as smaller than in really it
Microplasia
Hallucination in which the content is mood appropriate
Mood-congruent hallucination
Hallucination in which the content is not mood appropriate
Mood-incongruent hallucination
Unable or unwilling to speak
Mutism
Opposition or resistance, either convert or overt, to outside suggestions or advice
Negativism
The use of a newly made up word, or an everyday word send in an idiosyncratic way
Neologism
The delusion of non-existence of the self or part of the self
Nihilistic delusion
Mental operations carry on past the point that they serve a function. Ex) what day is it? Monday what time is it? Monday
Preservation
Speech that conveys little information because it is vague
Poverty of content
Less speech than normal
Poverty of speech
Speech that conveys little information because of vagueness, empty repetitions, or stereotyped or obscure phases
Poverty of thought
Describes a morbid increase in action or movements presumed to result from psychic rather than physical disturbances
Pychomotor Agitation
The lack of ability to evaluate the external world objectively and to differentiate adequately between it and the internal world
Reality testing
A delusion centered on the idea that events, objects, or other persons in ones environment have a particular and unusual significance
Referential delusion
A delusion whose main content pertains to the appearance or funcitoning of ones own body
Somatic delusion
Hallucination involving the sensation of being strangled, feeling that insects are crawling beneath the skin, or feeling of sexual stimulation
Somatic hallucination
A very sleepy state
Somnolence
The hallucination of a sense other than the one being stimulated stimulated. For example, a sound may evoke sensations of color
Synesthesia hallucination
A single false belief with multiple elaborations or a sgroup of false beliefs that the person relates to a single event or theme
Systematized delusion
Habitually untalkative
Taciturn
Hallucination of touch
Tactile hallucination
Replying to a question in an oblique or irrelevant way
Tangentiality
The belief tha ones thoughts are being broadcasted out loud so that they can be perceived by other s
Thought broadcasting
The belief that certain of ones thoughts are not ones own, but rather are inserted into ones mind
Thought insertion
The belief that one would like to think a thought, but someone or something has removed that thought
Thought withdrawal
Part of the body moves repeatedly, quickly, suddenly, and uncontrollably
Tic
Speech that is an incoherent and incomprehensible mix of words and phrases
Word salad
