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