terminology

Question 1

Affect

Answer 1

The outward expression of the persons emotional state

Question 2

Agnosia

Answer 2

Inability to recognize or name objects despite intact sensory abilities

Question 3

Akathisia

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Intense need to move about: restless movement, pacing, inability to remain still, inner restlessness.

Question 4

Alogia

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A lack of any real meaning or substance in what the persons says

Question 5

Anhedonia

Answer 5

Inability to derive pleasure from previously pleasurable activities

Question 6

Apathy

Answer 6

Lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern.

Question 7

Avolition

Answer 7

Lack of initiative or goals; one of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The person may wish to do something, but the desire is without power or energy.

Question 8

Blunted affect

Answer 8

Significant reduction in the intensity of emotional expression.

Question 9

Broad affect

Answer 9

Displaying a full range of emotions

Question 10

Clang associations

Answer 10

Ideas related to one another based on sound or rhyming rather than meaning

Question 11

Dissociation

Answer 11

removing oneself from a situation or memory as a defense mechanism

Question 12

Dyskinesia

Answer 12

Any disturbance of movement. It may also be induced by medication.

Question 13

Dysphoric

Answer 13

low mood

Question 14

Euthymic

Answer 14

normal/level mood

Question 15

Flat affect

Answer 15

showing no facial expression

Question 16

flight of ideas

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Excessive amount and rate of speech composed of fragmented or unrelated ideas; racing, often unconnected thoughts.

Question 17

Hypomania

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A period of abnormally and persistently elevated, expansive or irritable mood lasting 4 days. Does not impair the ability to function and does not include psychotic features.

Question 18

Ideas of Reference

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Belief or interpretation that events are personally directed to him/her e.g. news or television has a personal message

Question 19

Incongruent Affect

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When expression doesn’t match the mood or situation, e.g. silly or giddy regardless of circumstance.

Question 20

Labile

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Rapidly changing or fluctuating, such as someone’s mood or emotions

Question 21

Loose associations

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Disorganized thinking that jumps from one idea to another with little or no evident relation between the thoughts

Question 22

Pressured speech

Answer 22

Unrelenting, rapid, often loud talking without pauses

Question 23

Psychosis

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Cluster of symptoms including delusions, hallucinations, and grossly disordered thinking and behaviour

Question 24

Restricted affect

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Displaying one type of emotional expression, usually serious or somber

Question 25

Tangential thinking

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Wandering off the topic and never providing the information requested

Question 26

Thought blocking

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Stopping abruptly in the middle of a sentence or train of thought; sometimes the person is unable to continue the idea

Question 27

Thought broadcasting

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delusional belief that others can hear or know what the person is thinking

Question 28

Thought insertion

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A delusional belief that others are putting ideas or thoughts into the person’s head; that is, the idea are not those of the person

Question 29

Thought withdrawal

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A delusional belief that others are taking the person’s thoughts away and that the person is powerless to stop it

Question 30

Command hallucinations

Answer 30

A belief that someone is commanding them to do something and that they have to do it. Can be dangerous if the commands threaten themselves or others