psych glossary Flashcards
Thinking charac by the ability to grasp essentials as a whole, to break a whole into parts and discern its properties. To think symbolically.
Abstract thinking
A process by which a repressed mat’L, particularly painful experience or conflict, is brought back to consciousness; in this process, the person not only recalls, but also relives the repressed mat’L which is accompanied by affective responses
Abreaction
Reduced impulse to act and to think, asso with indifference about consequences of action
Abulia
Loss of ability to do calculations.
Not caused by anxiety or impairment of concentration.
Neurologic and learning d/o
Acalculia
Disordered speech in which statements are incorrectly formulated. May use by sounds, with inapp thought and expression
Acataphasia
Lack of feeling asso with an ordinarily charged subject.
Decathexis (detaching or transferring of emotion from thought)
In anxiety, dissociative, schizophrenic and bipolar)
Acathexis
Loss of sensation of physical existence
Acenesthesia
Fear of high places
Acrophobia
Behavioral response to an unconscious drive or impulse that brings about temporary partial relief of inner tension. Relief is attained by reaction in situation as if it were the situation that originally gave rise to the drive or impulse.
Acting out
Acting out is common in what personality d/o?
Borderline personality do
Nonsense speech asso with marked impairment of comprehension.
Mania, schizo and neurologic.
Aculalia
Inability to perform rapid alternating movements.
Neurologic and cerebellar lesion.
Adiadochokinesia
Weakness and fatigability, characteristics of neurasthenia and depression.
Adynamia
Excessive swallowing of air.
Aerophagia
Aerophagia is seen in what disorder?
Anxiety disorder.
External expression of inner emotional state.
Subjective and immediate emotion attached to ideas or mental representation of objects.
Affect
Lack or impairment of sense of taste.
Depression and neurologic.
Ageusia
Forceful, goal-directed action.
Motor counterpart of affect of rage, anger or hostility.
Aggression
Severe anxiety asso with motor restlessness
Agitation
Inability to comprehend sensation.
Agnosia
Fear of open places or leaving familiar setting of home.
Agoraphobia
Loss or impairment of ability to write.
Agraphia
Fear of cats
Ailurophobia
Subjective feeling of motor restlessness manifested by a compelling need to be in constant movement.
Seen as adverse effect of antipsychotic med.
Akathisia