Terminology Flashcards
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Sadness
Dysphoria
Focusing on the individual
Idiographic
Occurring suddenly and time limited
Acute
A belief that is completely false
Delusion
Multiple disorders
Co-Morbility
State of excitement
Mania
Assessment of a person’s cognitive, emotional, and behavioral state
Mental Status
A collection of basic knowledge about a concept that serves as a guide
Schema
Focusing on groups of individuals
Nomothetic
Continuing or ongoing
Chronic
Failure to cope in response to stress
Decompensation
An inability to recognize objects
Agnosia
Description of treatments that apply the same principles across multiple disorders
Transdiagnostic
Surgical procedure pioneered by Moniz which involved cutting in the frontal lobe area
Prefrontal Lobotomy
Methods people use to deal with stressful situations
Coping Skills
Measure of effectiveness of a treatment technique in psychotherapy
Efficacy
Study of how environmental conditions can change the expression of genes without changing the genetic sequence
Epigenetics
The cause of something
Etiology
An experience involving the apparent perception of something not present
Hallucination
Faking for a purpose
Malingering
Loss of contact with reality
Psychosis
The extent to which something measures what it is supposed to measure
Validity
The mental process of disconnecting from one’s thoughts, feelings, memory, or identity
Dissociation
Feelings of elations
Euphoria
The consistency of a measure
Reliability
Difficulty in speaking
Alogia
An impairment of Language
Aphasia
Unintelligible unorganized speech
Word Salad
The process of determining which of two or more diseases or disorders with overlapping symptoms a particular patient has
Differential Diagnosis
Psychomotor symptom that leads to a decreased response to stimuli and a tendency to remain in an immobile posture.
Waxy Flexibility
Painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina in response to sexual intercourse
Vaginismus
Loss of ability to execute motor movements
Apraxia
A failure to engage in goal directed behavior
Avolition
An association of words by sound rather than by meaning
Clang
Often called the “ice pick lobotomy,” it’s use was pioneered by Walter Freeman and consisted of forcing an ice pick into the back of the eyelid in order to destroy the part of the brain thought to be responsible for mental illness.
Transorbital Lobotomy
The belief that other people have power to remove thoughts and/or feelings from a person’s mind.
Thought Withdrawal
A loss of identity or feeling detached from one’s self
Depersonalization
A feeling that one’s surrounding are not real
Derealization
The belief that others can insert thoughts, feelings, behaviors into one’s mind
Thought Insertion
The idea that psychological disorders arise from inherent vulnerabilities and environmental stressors
Diathesis Stress Model
The belief that others can hear or are aware of a person’s thoughts and/or feelings
Thought Broadcasting
Painful sexual intercourse
Dyspareunia
Mimicking and repeating something that is said
Echolalia
A condition similar to mania but less severe
Hypomania
The interpretation of common events as having high personal significance
Idea of Reference
Lack of logical connections
Loose Association
A made up word that only the person who made it up knows the definition of
Neologism
Repetition of a particular response despite the cessation of a stimulus
Perseveration
A discredited theory that mothers of people diagnosed with schizophrenia were responsible for their child’s diagnosis
Schizophrenogenic Mother
A neurological disorder characterized by involuntary movements
Tardive Dyskinesia
