Glossary Terms Flashcards
_____: A pattern of observable behaviors that is the expression of a subjectively experienced feeling state (emotion)
affect
Absence or near absence of any sign of affective expression is _____ affect
flat
Abnormal variability in affect with repeated, rapid, and abrupt shifts in affective expression is _____ affect
labile
_______: Loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells that occurs
in the absence of either impairment of the specific sense or significant memory loss.
Alogia
Alogia:
Loss of ability to recognize objects, persons, sounds, shapes, or smells that occurs
in the absence of either impairment of the specific sense or significant memory loss.
An inability to recall important autobiographical information that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting
Amnesia
Anhedonia
Lack of enjoyment from, engagement in, or energy for life’s experiences; deficits in the capacity to feel pleasure and take interest in things.
The apprehensive anticipation of future danger or misfortune accompanied by
a feeling of worry, distress, and/or somatic symptoms of tension. The focus of anticipated danger may be internal or external.
Anxiety
Anxiety :
The apprehensive anticipation of future danger or misfortune accompanied by
a feeling of worry, distress, and/or somatic symptoms of tension. The focus of anticipated danger may be internal or external.
An inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed activities.
Avolition
Mechanisms that mediate the individual’s reaction to emotional conflicts and to external stressors.
defense mechanism
A false belief based on incorrect inference about external reality that is firmly
held despite what almost everyone else believes and despite what constitutes incontrovertible and obvious proof or evidence to the contrary
Delusion
The experience of feeling detached from, and as if one is an outside
observer of, one’s mental processes, body, or actions (e.g., feeling like one is in a dream;
a sense of unreality of self, perceptual alterations; emotional and/or physical numbing;
temporal distortions; sense of unreality).
Depersonalisation
The experience of feeling detached from, and as if one is an outside observer of, one’s surroundings (e.g., individuals or objects are experienced as unreal,
dreamlike, foggy, lifeless, or visually distorted).
Derealisation
Orientation toward immediate gratification, leading to impulsive behavior driven by current thoughts, feelings, and external stimuli, without regard for past
learning or consideration of future consequences.
disinhibition
