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
Confusion about the time of day, date, or season (time); where one is(place); or who one is (person).
Disorientation
A condition in which a person experiences intense feelings of depression, discontent, and in some cases indifference to the world around them.
Dysphoria
Presence, while depressed, of two or more of the following: 1) poor appetite
or overeating, 2) insomnia or hypersonnnia, 3) low energy or fatigue, 4) low self-esteem,
5) poor concentration or difficulty making decisions, or 6) feelings of hopelessness.
Dysthymia
A mental and emotional condition in which a person experiences intense feelings of well-being, elation, happiness, excitement, and joy.
Euphoria
A nearly continuous flow of accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic that are usually based on understandable associations, distracting
stimuli, or plays on words. When the condition is severe, speech may be disorganized
and incoherent.
Flight of Ideas
A state of decreased mental activity, characterized by sluggishness, drowsiness, inactivity, and reduced alertness.
lethargy
A mental state of elevated, expansive, or irritable mood and persistently increased level of activity or energy.
Mania
A mental state characterized by very severe depression.
Melancholia
Mood in the “normal” range, which implies the absence of depressed or
elevated mood.
Euthymic
Lack of restraint in expressing one’s feelings, frequently with an overvaluation of one’s significance or importance.
Expansive
Recurrent and persistent thoughts, urges, or images that are experienced, at
some time during the disturbance, as intrusive and unwanted and that in most individuals cause marked anxiety or distress.
Obsessions
The pattern of specific and nonspecific responses a person makes to stimulus events that disturb his or her equilibrium and tax or exceed his or her ability to cope.
Stress
Lack of psychomotor activity, which may range from not actively relating to the environment to complete immobility.
Stupor
Below a specified level or threshold required to qualify for a particular condition.
Subsyndromal
An involuntary, sudden, rapid, recurrent, nonrhythmic motor movement or vocalization.
Tic
Unpleasant or uncomfortable thoughts that cannot be consciously controlled by trying to turn the attention to other subjects.
Worry
