Psych Vocab Flashcards
Abstract thinking
ability to make associations or interpretations about a situation or comment
Concrete thinking
when the client continually gives literal translations; abstraction is diminished or absent
Agoraphobia
fear of being outside
Akathisia
Intense need to move about
Akinesia
partial or complete loss or suppression of muscle movement (Absence of movement)
Alogia
a lack of any real meaning or substance in what the client says
ambivalence
coexistence of contradictory feelings about an object, person, idea
Anhedonia
Having no pleasure or joy in life, loosing any sense of pleasure from activities formerly enjoyed
Anxiety state
a condition marked by more or less continuous anxiety and apprehension
Apathy
indifference, insensibility,lack of emotion
apraxia
impaired ability to execute motor functions despite intact motor abilities
catatonia
psychomotor disturbance, either motionless or excessive motor
Clang association
an unusual speech pattern seen in decompensated psychoses in which words rhyme or sound alike “Mr.bang sang, tang, clang”
Confabulation
clients may make up answers to fill in memory gaps, associated with organic brain problems
counter transference
occurs when the therapist displaces onto the client attitudes or feelings from his or her past.
transference
occurs when the client displaces onto the therapist attitudes and feelings that the client originally experienced in other relationships
Delirium
a syndrome that involves a disturbance of consciousness accompanied by a change in cognition
Dementia
A mental disorder that involves multiple cognitive deficits
Delusion
A fixed, false belief not based in reality
