Week 20 Flashcards
Anhedonia
Loss of interest or pleasure in activities one previously found enjoyable or rewarding
Attributional style
The tendency by which a person infers the cause or meaning of behaviors or events
Chronic stress
Discrete or related problematic events and conditions which persist over time and result in prolonged activation of the biological and/or psychological stress response
Early adversity
Single or multiple acute or chronic stressful events, which may be biological or psychological in nature occurring during childhood and resulting in a biological and/or psychological stress response
Grandiosity
Inflated self-esteem or an exaggerated sense of self-importance and self-worth
Hypersomnia
Excessive daytime sleepiness, including difficulty staying awake or napping, or prolonged sleep episodes
Psychomotor agitation
Increased motor activity associated with restlessness, including physical actions
Psychomotor retardation
A slowing of physical activities in which routine activities (e.g., eating, brushing teeth) are performed in an unusually slow manner
Social zeitgeber
- Zeitgeber is German for “time giver.”
- Social zeitgebers are environmental cues, such as meal times and interactions with other people, that entrain biological rhythms and thus sleep-wake cycle regularity
Socioeconomic status (SES)
A person’s economic and social position based on income, education, and occupation
Suicidal ideation
Recurring thoughts about suicide, including considering or planning for suicide, or preoccupation with suicide
Alogia
A reduction in the amount of speech and/or increased pausing before the initiation of speech
amotivation
A reduction in the drive or ability to take the steps or engage in actions necessary to obtain the potentially positive outcome
Catatonia
- Behaviors that seem to reflect a reduction in responsiveness to the external environment
- This can include holding unusual postures for long periods of time, failing to respond to verbal or motor prompts from another person, or excessive and seemingly purposeless motor activity
Diagnostic criteria
The specific criteria used to determine whether an individual has a specific type of psychiatric disorder (DSM-5)
Disorganized behavior
Behaviour or dress that is outside the norm for almost all subcultures (this would include odd dress, odd makeup or unusual rituals)
Disorganized speech
Speech that is difficult to follow, either because answers do not clearly follow questions or because one sentence does not logically follow from another
Dopamine
A neurotransmitter in the brain that is thought to play an important role in regulating the function of other neurotransmitters
Episodic memory
The ability to learn and retrieve new information or episodes in one’s life
Flat affect
A reduction in the display of emotions through facial expressions, gestures, and speech intonation
Functional capacity
The ability to engage in self-care (cook, clean, bathe), work, attend school, and/or engage in social relationships
Hallucinations
Perceptual experiences that occur even when there is no stimulus in the outside world generating the experiences (They can be auditory, visual, olfactory (smell), gustatory (taste), or somatic (touch)
Magnetic resonance imaging
A set of techniques that uses strong magnets to measure either the structure of the brain, or how the brain functions when a person performs cognitive tasks (e.g., working memory or episodic memory) or other types of tasks
Neurodevelopmental
Processes that influence how the brain develops either in utero or as the child is growing up
