Psych Vocab

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acrophobia

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extreme fear of high places

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adjustment disorder

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maladaptive reaction to identifiable life events that is expected to remit when the stress ceases

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affect

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the subjective experience of emotion attached to ideas or mental representations of people or things; outward manifestations can be classified as broad, restricted, blunted, flattened, labile, appropriate, or inappropriate

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affective disorder

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mood disorder

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agitation

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anxiety associated with motor restlessness

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agoraphobia

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extreme fear of open places or of leaving familiar settings, may be assoc. with panic attacks

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akathisia

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motor restlessness manifested by a strong need to be in mvmt ("ants in my pants"); may be a side effect of antipsychotic meds or SSRIs

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akinesia

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lack of physical mvmt, as in the immobility of catatonic schizophrenia or as an extrapyramidal side effect of antipsychotic meds

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alexithymia

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inability or diff. in describing or being aware of one's emotions

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ambivalence

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presence of strong simultaneous contrasting attitudes, ideas, feelings, or drives

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anhedonia

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inability to experience pleasure

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anxiety

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unpleasant emotional state assoc. with psychophysiological changes in response to an intrapsychic conflict; in contrast to fear, the danger or threat is unreal

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apathy

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lack of feelings or interest in one's surroundings

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appropriate affect

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emotional tone in harmony with the accomanying idea or thought

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blocking

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involuntary cessation or interruption of thought processes or speech because of unconscious emotional factors, such as having auditory hallucinations

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blunted affect

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disturbance of affect manifested by a severe reduction in the intensity of externalized feeling tone

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bradykinesia

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slowness of motor activity and a decrease in normal spontaneous mvmt

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broad affect

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normal range of the expression of a subjectively experienced feeling state with variability in facial expression, pitch of voice, and body mvmts.

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catalepsy

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condition in which persons maintain the body position into which they were places aka waxy flexibility, cerea flexibilitas

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cataplexy

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temporary sudden loss of muscle tone, causing immobilization; can be precipitated by a variety of emotional states; characteristically seen in narcolepsy

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catatonia

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state of stupor; esp a type of schizophrenia characterized by muscular rigidity, stupor, and negativism

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catatonic rigidity

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fixed and sustained motoric position that is resistant to change

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cerea flexibilitas

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catalepsy

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circumstantiability

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disturbance in the associative thought and speech processes in which a patient digresses into unnecessary details and inappropriate thoughts before communicating the central idea

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clang associations; clanging

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association or speech directed by the sound of a word rather than by its meaning; punning and rhyming may occur

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claustrophobia

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abnormal fear of closed spaces

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clouding of consciousness

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any disturbance of consciousness in which the person is not fully awake, alert, and oriented

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compulsion

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uncontrollable, repetitive, and unwanted performance of an act

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concrete thinking

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thought characterized by actual and immediate things and events, rather than by abstractions

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confabulation

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unconscious filling of gaps of memory by imagining experiences or events that have no basis in fact. ex: alcoholic patient

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constricted affect

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reduction in intensity of feeling tone less but more severe than that of blunted affect

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deja vu

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illusion of visual recognition in which a new situation is incorrectly regarded as a repetition of a previous experience

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delusion

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false belief that is firmly held, despite objective and obvious contradictory proof or evidence and despite the fact that other members of the culture do not share the belief

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delusion of control

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a person's thoughts, feelings, or actions are not one's own, but are being imposed by some external force

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delusion of grandeur (grandiose delusion)

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exaggerated concept of one's importance, power, knowledge, or identity

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delusion of jealousy

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one's lover is unfaithful

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delusion of persecution

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one is being attacked, harassed, or conspired against

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delusion of reference

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events, objects, or the behaviors of others have a particular and unusual meaning specifically for oneself

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somatic delusion

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pertaining to the functioning of one's body

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depersonalization

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sensation of unreality concerning oneself or parts of oneself, that may occur under stress or fatigue

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derailment

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extreme deviation in train of thought; sometimes used synonymously with loosening of association

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derealization

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sensation of changing reality or that one's surroundings have altered

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disorientation

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impairment of awareness of time, place, person, or situation

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dyskinesia

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any disturbance of mvmt, as in extrapyramidal dyskinesia

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dysphoria

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feeling of unpleasantness or discomfort; a mood of general dissatisfaction, depression, and anxiety

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dysprosody

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loss of normal speech melody or prosody

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echolalia

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repetition of another person's words or phrases

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elation

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affect consisting of feelings of joy, euphoria, or optimism

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emotional lability

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excessive emotional responsiveness characterized by unstable and rapidly changing feelings

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euphoria

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exaggerated feeling of well-being that is inappropriate to apparent events

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euthymia

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denoting normal mood

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expansive modd

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mood characterized by feelings of grandiosity

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flat affect

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absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression

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flight of idea

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rapid succession of fragmentary thoughts or speech in which content changes abruptly and speech may by incoherent

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hallucination

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false sensory perception occurring in the absence of any relevant external stimulation of the sensory modality involved

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idea of reference

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misinterpretation of incidents and events in the outside world as having a direct personal reference to oneself; if present with sufficient frequency or intensity or organized and systematized, they constitute delusions of reference

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illusion

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perceptual misinterpretation of a real external stimulus

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immediate memory

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reproduction, recognition, or recall or perceived material w/i seconds after presentation

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inappropriate affect

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emotional tone out of harmony with the idea, thought, or speech accompanying it

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la belle indifference

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inappropriate lack of concern about one's disability; commonly seen in conversion disorder

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labile affect

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affective expression characterized by abrupt shifts from one mood or affect to another

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logorrhea

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uncontrollable, excessive talking

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long-term memory

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reproduction, recognition, or recall of experience or info that was experienced in the distant past; aka remote memory

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loosening of associations

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thinking disturbance involving a disorder in the logical progression of thoughts, manifested by unrelated and unconnected ideas shifting from one subject to another

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mood

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pervasive and sustained feeling tone that is experienced subjectively; distinguished from affect, the external expression of the internal feeling tone

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neologism

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new word or phrase whose derivation cannot be understood

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overvalued idea

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false or unreasonable belief or idea that is sustained with less intensity or duration than a delusion

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paranoid ideation

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thinking dominated by suspicious or persecutory content

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phobia

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persistent, intense fear of an object or situation

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poverty of content of speech

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speech that is quantitatively adequate, but qualitatively inadequate because it consists of minimal, vague, or repetitious information

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pressure of speech; pressured speech

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inc. in amount of spontaneous speech

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psychogenic

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produced or caused by psychological factors with no organic basis

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psychomotor agitation

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physical and mental overactivity associated with a feeling of inner turmoil

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tangentiality

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disturbance in which the person replies to a question in an oblique, digressive manner and the central idea is not communicated; failure to communicate the central idea distinguishes tangentiality from circumstantiality, in which the goal idea is reached in a delayed or indirect manner

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thought broadcasting

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delusion that one's thoughts are being broadcast or projected into the environment

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thought insertion

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delusion that thoughts are being implanted into one's mind by other people or forces

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thought withdrawal

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delusion that one's thoughts are being removed from one's mind by other people or forces

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waxy flexibility

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catalepsy

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word salad

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incoherent, essentially incomprehensible mixture of words or phrases