Perception Terms Flashcards
1
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Sensation or sensory perception experienced in absence of a relevant external stimulus.
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Hallucinations
2
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Idiopathic loss of ability to interpret sensory stimuli.
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Agnosia
3
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Inability to perceive and recognize the form of an object via touch
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Asterognisis
4
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Sense of alienation from normal identity, as though one has become an outside observer with no control of one’s own mental or physical processes.
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Depersonalization
5
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State of mind wherein one’s entire personal identity is abandoned and no reasonable explanation is available.
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Dissociative fugue
