Psychological Flashcards
Abnormal judgment
Lack of normal decision making
Affect
The expressed or observed emotional and social responses
Anxiety Reaction
Commonly known as an “anxiety attack”
Auditory Hallucinations
Hearing voices, noises, music, or sounds that are not actually real.
Depressed
Appearing sad, unhappy
Flat affect
Lack of normal interaction, monotone, unemotional
Homicidal ideation
Thoughts of killing another person
Non-communicative
Lacking the desire or ability to communicate
Odd affect
Strange interactions, unusual expressions, “weird”
Pressured speech
Abnormal rate of speech, speaking quickly and urgently
Suicidal ideation
Thoughts of killing oneself
Tangential thoughts
Thought processes that do not follow normal or logical progressions
Visual Hallucinations
Seeing objects, people, or things that do not actually exist
Withdrawn
Uninterested and non-participatory
