Psych terms

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Thought disorder

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• Disordered thinking as evidenced by disorganized speech

- Hearing voices, hallucinations or paranoia

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Magical thinking

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• Belief that ones thoughts have ability to cause actions that defy normal laws of cause and effect

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Neologism

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Newly invented, nonsensical word

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Word salad

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Use of words haphazardly, without logical structure or meaning

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Circumstantiality

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• Disturbance of associative thought into unnecessary details and inappropriate thoughts before ultimately communicating central idea

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Tangentiality

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• Lack of observance to main subject of discourse

- Deviation from topic

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Perseveration

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• Abnormal, compulsive and inappropriate repetition of words

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Loosening of association

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• Frequent changing of subject and content that is not related to subject matter

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Derailment

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• Sequence of unrelated or remotely related ideas

- Frame of reference changes from one sentence to next

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Flight of ideas

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• Continuous but fragmented use of language
• Train of thought followable but direction changes by chance stimuli from envt
• Psychosis and mania

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Clanging

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• Association of words characterized by rhyming, sound rather than logic

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Blocking

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Sudden break in free association as a defense against unpleasant ideas

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Glossolalia

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• Speaking in tougues

- Sx of brain disease

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Poverty of content

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• Speech that lacks meaning, quantity is greater than necessary for message conveyed

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Delusion

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• Fixed, false belief that is not grounded in reality

- Remains despite contradicted

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Paranoid delusion

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• Fixed, false belief that one is being harmed or persecuted by a person or group of people

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Delusion of persecution

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Delusion that others are out to embarrass and inflict suffering on you

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Delusion of grandeur

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• Fixed, false belief that one posses superior qualities

- Great but unrecognized talent or insight

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Thought withdrawal

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Delusion that someone or something is removing thoughts from ones mind

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Thought broadcasting

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Delusions that others are telepathic, capable of hearing ones private thoughts

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Erotomania

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Fixed, false belief that another person, is ones secret admirer

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Catatonia

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• Inability to move in a certain way
• Stupor
• State of unresponsiveness to external stimuli

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Cataplexy

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• Abrupt loss of postural control after experiencing a strong emotion

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Mannerism

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Unusual habit, conscious or unconscious, which can be modified at will

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Automatism

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Performance of action without conscious thought or intention

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Psychomotor agitation

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- Unintentional and purposeless motions that stem from mental tension and anxiety - Pacing

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Psychomotor retardation

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Slowing of thought and a reduction of physical movements

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Somnambulism

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Sleepwalking

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Akathisia

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- Unpleasant muscular tension and restlessness | - Generally caused by medications

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Selective inattention

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Habitual lack of attention toward unpleasant or anxiety provoking stimuli

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Hypervigilance

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Abnormally increased level of alertness symptomatic of PTSD

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Flat affect

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Lacking emotional expression or reactivity

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Labile affect

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Pathological emotional expression that may not be mood congruent

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Dysphoric mood

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Profound state of unease or dissatisfaction in psych context

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Euphoric mood

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- Intense state of transcendent happiness | - Overwhelming contentment

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Euthymic mood

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Average mood, neither elevated or depressed

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Expansive mood

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Emotional expression unaffected by others reaction

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Pressured speech

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- Rapid, frenzied speech - Motivated by urgency not apparent to listener - Difficult to understand, tangential

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Sensory aphasia (wernicke)

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Severe impairment in ability to understand spoken or written words, process words into thoughts

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Motor aphasia (brocca)

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Inability to process thoughts into speech due to neuro damage - Unable to repeat words of phrases

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Global aphasia

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- Combined motor and sensory aphasia | - Inability to initiate speech or follow commands

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Hallucination

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Sensation or sensory perception experienced in absence of relevant stimulus

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Agnosia

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Loss of ability to interpret sensory stimuli without explanation

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Astereognosis

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Inability to perceive an object by handling it

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Depersonalization

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- Alienation of normal identity | - outside observer with no control of own mental of physical processes

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Dissociative fugue

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- Abandonment of personal identity, unable to recall who they are with no other reasonable explanation

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Intellectual disability

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aka- mental retardation - Onset during developmental period - Deficits and difficulty in functioning

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Concrete thinking

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- Inability to understand abstract concepts | - Extreme literalism

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Impaired insight

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Diminished ability to recognize ones own condition, understand reality of a situation