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Psych terms Flashcards

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Thought disorder

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  • Disordered thinking as evidenced by disorganized speech

- Hearing voices, hallucinations or paranoia

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Magical thinking

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  • Belief that ones thoughts have ability to cause actions that defy normal laws of cause and effect
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Neologism

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Newly invented, nonsensical word

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Word salad

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Use of words haphazardly, without logical structure or meaning

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Circumstantiality

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  • Disturbance of associative thought into unnecessary details and inappropriate thoughts before ultimately communicating central idea
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Tangentiality

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  • Lack of observance to main subject of discourse

- Deviation from topic

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Perseveration

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  • Abnormal, compulsive and inappropriate repetition of words
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Loosening of association

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  • Frequent changing of subject and content that is not related to subject matter
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Derailment

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  • Sequence of unrelated or remotely related ideas

- Frame of reference changes from one sentence to next

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Flight of ideas

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  • Continuous but fragmented use of language
  • Train of thought followable but direction changes by chance stimuli from envt
  • Psychosis and mania
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Clanging

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  • Association of words characterized by rhyming, sound rather than logic
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Blocking

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Sudden break in free association as a defense against unpleasant ideas

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Glossolalia

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  • Speaking in tougues

- Sx of brain disease

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Poverty of content

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  • Speech that lacks meaning, quantity is greater than necessary for message conveyed
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Delusion

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  • Fixed, false belief that is not grounded in reality

- Remains despite contradicted

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Paranoid delusion

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  • Fixed, false belief that one is being harmed or persecuted by a person or group of people
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Delusion of persecution

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Delusion that others are out to embarrass and inflict suffering on you

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Delusion of grandeur

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  • Fixed, false belief that one posses superior qualities

- Great but unrecognized talent or insight

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Thought withdrawal

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Delusion that someone or something is removing thoughts from ones mind

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Thought broadcasting

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Delusions that others are telepathic, capable of hearing ones private thoughts

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Erotomania

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Fixed, false belief that another person, is ones secret admirer

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Catatonia

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  • Inability to move in a certain way
  • Stupor
  • State of unresponsiveness to external stimuli
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Cataplexy

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  • Abrupt loss of postural control after experiencing a strong emotion
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Mannerism

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Unusual habit, conscious or unconscious, which can be modified at will

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Automatism

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Performance of action without conscious thought or intention

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Psychomotor agitation

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  • Unintentional and purposeless motions that stem from mental tension and anxiety
  • Pacing
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Psychomotor retardation

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Slowing of thought and a reduction of physical movements

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Somnambulism

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Sleepwalking

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Akathisia

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  • Unpleasant muscular tension and restlessness

- Generally caused by medications

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Selective inattention

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Habitual lack of attention toward unpleasant or anxiety provoking stimuli

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Hypervigilance

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Abnormally increased level of alertness symptomatic of PTSD

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Flat affect

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Lacking emotional expression or reactivity

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Labile affect

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Pathological emotional expression that may not be mood congruent

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Dysphoric mood

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Profound state of unease or dissatisfaction in psych context

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Euphoric mood

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  • Intense state of transcendent happiness

- Overwhelming contentment

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Euthymic mood

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Average mood, neither elevated or depressed

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Expansive mood

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Emotional expression unaffected by others reaction

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Pressured speech

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  • Rapid, frenzied speech
  • Motivated by urgency not apparent to listener
  • Difficult to understand, tangential
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Sensory aphasia (wernicke)

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Severe impairment in ability to understand spoken or written words, process words into thoughts

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Motor aphasia (brocca)

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Inability to process thoughts into speech due to neuro damage
- Unable to repeat words of phrases

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Global aphasia

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  • Combined motor and sensory aphasia

- Inability to initiate speech or follow commands

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Hallucination

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Sensation or sensory perception experienced in absence of relevant stimulus

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Agnosia

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Loss of ability to interpret sensory stimuli without explanation

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Astereognosis

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Inability to perceive an object by handling it

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Depersonalization

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  • Alienation of normal identity

- outside observer with no control of own mental of physical processes

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Dissociative fugue

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  • Abandonment of personal identity, unable to recall who they are with no other reasonable explanation
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Intellectual disability

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aka- mental retardation

  • Onset during developmental period
  • Deficits and difficulty in functioning
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Concrete thinking

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  • Inability to understand abstract concepts

- Extreme literalism

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Impaired insight

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Diminished ability to recognize ones own condition, understand reality of a situation

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