terminology Flashcards
Affect
The outward expression of the persons emotional state
Agnosia
Inability to recognize or name objects despite intact sensory abilities
Akathisia
Intense need to move about: restless movement, pacing, inability to remain still, inner restlessness.
Alogia
A lack of any real meaning or substance in what the persons says
Anhedonia
Inability to derive pleasure from previously pleasurable activities
Apathy
Lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern.
Avolition
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.
Blunted affect
Significant reduction in the intensity of emotional expression.
Broad affect
Displaying a full range of emotions
Clang associations
Ideas related to one another based on sound or rhyming rather than meaning
Dissociation
removing oneself from a situation or memory as a defense mechanism
Dyskinesia
Any disturbance of movement. It may also be induced by medication.
Dysphoric
low mood
Euthymic
normal/level mood
Flat affect
showing no facial expression
flight of ideas
Excessive amount and rate of speech composed of fragmented or unrelated ideas; racing, often unconnected thoughts.
Hypomania
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.
Ideas of Reference
Belief or interpretation that events are personally directed to him/her e.g. news or television has a personal message
Incongruent Affect
When expression doesn’t match the mood or situation, e.g. silly or giddy regardless of circumstance.
Labile
Rapidly changing or fluctuating, such as someone’s mood or emotions
Loose associations
Disorganized thinking that jumps from one idea to another with little or no evident relation between the thoughts
Pressured speech
Unrelenting, rapid, often loud talking without pauses
Psychosis
Cluster of symptoms including delusions, hallucinations, and grossly disordered thinking and behaviour
Restricted affect
Displaying one type of emotional expression, usually serious or somber
Tangential thinking
Wandering off the topic and never providing the information requested
Thought blocking
Stopping abruptly in the middle of a sentence or train of thought; sometimes the person is unable to continue the idea
Thought broadcasting
delusional belief that others can hear or know what the person is thinking
Thought insertion
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
Thought withdrawal
A delusional belief that others are taking the person’s thoughts away and that the person is powerless to stop it
Command hallucinations
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
