Psychiatric Disorders Definitions Flashcards
What is a feeling or emotion manifested by facial expressions or body language?
Affect
What is the absence of interest in or pleasure from performance of acts that would ordinarily be enjoyable?
Anhedonia
What is medication designed to treat anxiety?
Anxiolytic
What is excessive eating beyond the amount necessary to satisfy appetite?
Binge
What is a syndrome of psychomotor retardation characterized by periods of physical rigidity and lack of response to outside stimuli?
Catatonia
What is an uncontrollable impulse to perform an act, often repeatedly, as an unconscious mechanism to avoid unacceptable ideas or desires, which by themselves arouse anxiety?
Compulsion
What is a false belief or wrong judgment held with conviction despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary?
Delusion
What is a behavior that is neither goal directed or guided by rational or preconceived plan?
Disorganized Behavior
What is speech in which the statements are not logically connected to each other?
Disorganized speech
What is an unconscious separation of a group of mental processes from the rest of the conscious awareness?
Dissociation
What is the disturbance in amount, quality, or timing of sleep?
Dyssomnia
What are higher levels of cognitive/mental functioning including planning, abstraction, inductive reasoning, and organizing?
Executive functioning
What is the subjective perception of an object or an event when no such stimulus or situation exists?
Hallucination
What is a misinterpretation or false perception of a real sensory stimulus?
Illusion
What is a sudden, often unreasonable, determination to perform some act, the performance of which often provides a sense of relief or a release of tension?
Impulse
