Abnormal Psych Test 1 Glossary Of Terms

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residual

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phase of an illness that occurs after remission of the florid symptoms or the full syndrome

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prodromal

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early signs or symptoms of a dissorder

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psychomotor agitation

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excessi ve motor activity associated with a feeling of inner tension

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catatonic excitement

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excited motor activity apparently purposeless and not influenced by external stimuli

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compulsion

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repetitive and purposeless behavior in response to an obsession

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echolalia

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echoing of words

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echopraxia

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imitation of movements

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catatonic negativism

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an apparently motiveless resitance to all instructions or attempts to be moved (ex. firmly clech jaws when asked to open mouth)

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Those where the dissorders of the motor aspects

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Coming up are the disorders of perception

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Illusion

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misperception of real stimulus

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hallucination

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sensory perception without stimulus

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auditory hallucination

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h. of sound (most common voices)

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visual hallucination

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no external stimulus, but still see things

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olfactory hallucination

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smell things that arent there

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tactile hallucination

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feel things that arent there

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somatic hallucination

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feel things within the body (dif. than tactile hallucinations in that tactile is usually on outside of the body skin)

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Dissorders of Thinking

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Dissorders of thinking

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distractability

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attention drawn to irrelevant stimulus

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pressure of speech

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speech that is increased in amount accelaerated and difficult or impossible to inturrupt

manic episodes
shcizo
organic mentail dissoders
dimentia

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poverty of speech

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restricted, answers brief and unaloborate

manic episodes
shcizo
organic mentail dissoders
dimentia

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preservation

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persistent repition of words and ideas

Organic mental dissorders
shizo
psychotic dissorders

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circumstantiality

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speech that is inderect and gives too much details(wont get to the point)

OCD

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tangentiality

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strays from the topic and fails to return to the point

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flight of ideas

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continous flow with abrupt changes from topic to topic

manic episodes
organic metal disorders
schizo

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loosening of associations

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speech shifts from one subject to another that is completely unrelated

(think of watergate)

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clanging

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speech in which sounds rather than meaningful relationships govern word choice

rhyming and punning

schizo
manic depressant

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neologisms

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new words invented by the subject, distortions of words

schizophrenia

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incoherence

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speech that is not understandable: incoherence, illogical, no connection between phrases sentences

organic mental dissorders
schizo

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blocking

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lose thier train of thought, after seconds of silence cant recall

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illogical thinking

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contains obvious internal contradictions...may result from a delusional belief

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Dellusion

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false personal belief despite what everyone else believes

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persecutory dellusion

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a person or group is being harassed, cheated, persecuted

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grandiose delusion

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exagerated sense of ones importance

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delusion of refrence

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theme is that events, objects, or other poeple in the persons immediate environment is related to them

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somatic delusion

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delusions of the body...
people think they are pregnant when they are not
a person thinks their nose is horrible when its normal

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poverty delusion

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a person will become extremely poor

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jealous dellusion

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one sexual partner is unfaithful

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delusion of being controlled

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feelings thoughts and actions are being imposed by external control

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Nihilistic Delusion

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i no longer have a brain
there is no need to eat, because i have no insides

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Bizarre Delusion

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a false belief that is totally implausable

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systematized delusion

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single delusion with multiple elaborations related by a single event or theme

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paranoid ideation

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ideation, of less than delusional proportions, involving suspiciousness or the belief that one is being harassed, persecuted or unfairly treated

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grandiosity

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inflated appraisal of ones worth

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ideas of refrence

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idea held less firmly than a delusion..important significance

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obsessions

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recurrent and persistent sensless ideas

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phobia

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persistent irational fear

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poverty of content of speech

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adequate in amount, but conveys little information because of vagueness, content, etc

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Magical thinking

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the belief that you can will something into happening

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anxiety

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aprehension, tension, uneasiness

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panic attacks

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sudden onset of intense apprehension, fearfulness, or terror

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dysphoric mood

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unpleasant mood such as depression, irratability

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irratable mood

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internalized feeling of tension associated with being easily annoyed and provoked to anger

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euthymic mood

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normal range

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elevated mood

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more cheerful than normal

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euphoric mood

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exaggerated feeling of well being

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expansive mood

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lack of restrain in expressing ones feelings

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Mood congruent psychotic features

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delusions or hallucinations are connected to the mood

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mood incongruent psychotic features

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psychosis not connected to the mood

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disturbance of orientation

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confused about time of day, season, place, or who one is

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Hypermnesia

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exaggerated memory, ability to remember material that is not ordinarily availiby

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amnesia

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loss of memory

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Antrograde Amnesia

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loss of memory of events that occur after the onset

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retrograde amnesia

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loss of memory of events that occured before

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confabulation

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fabrications of facts..not consciously attempting to decieve

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pseudodementia

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clinical features resembling a dementia that are not due to organic brain dysfunciont or disease

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dementia

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a chronic, typically irreversible, loss of intellecutal functioning in consequence of organic brain pathology

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deja vu

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think its happened before

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jamais vu

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a person in a familiar situation percieves he has never experienced it before

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fugue

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a person suddenly leaves an activity to go on a journey, or wonder and it has nothing to do with what one was doing

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depersonalization

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an alteration of perception of experience...self estrangement
seeing oneself from above

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insomnia

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cant sleep

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conversion symptom

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loss or alteration of physical functioning that is psychologically based

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neurotic/neuroses

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no longer used...distressing symptoms, unwelcome psych state, not as severe as psychosis

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psychotic/psychoses

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gross impairment in reality..new reality
delusions or hallucinations

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ego-syntonic

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symptoms congruent with persons wishes, no desire to change

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ego-dystonic

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symptoms incongruent with persons wishes, desire to change