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Psychiatric Terminology Study Guide
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Psychiatric Terminology Study Guide
Psychiatric Terminology Study Guide
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1
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What is abuse in psychiatric terminology?
Answer
Excessive use of a substance that differs from societal norms.
2
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Define affect in the context of psychiatric terminology.
Answer
Emotional range attached to ideas outwardly manifested.
3
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What does 'blunt' mean when describing affect?
Answer
Slow or dull.
4
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What does 'flat affect' indicate?
Answer
Absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression.
5
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Describe 'inappropriate affect'.
Answer
Incongruent between the emotional feeling and outward expression.
6
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What does 'labile' describe in relation to mood?
Answer
Unstable mood with rapid change.
7
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What is 'broad affect'?
Answer
Shows full range of emotional expression.
8
Question
Define 'restricted affect'.
Answer
Shows one type of expression.
9
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What does it mean to be 'agitated'?
Answer
To be in excitement with severe motor restlessness.
10
Question
Define akathisia.
Answer
Motor restlessness generally expressed as the inability to sit still.
11
Question
What is akinesia?
Answer
Absence of movement.
12
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Define alogia.
Answer
Inability to speak.
13
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What does ambivalent mean in terms of feelings/emotions?
Answer
Opposing feelings/emotions (e.g., love and hate).
14
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What is anhedonia?
Answer
Feeling of no joy.
15
Question
Define anxiety.
Answer
Feeling of apprehension or tension; fear of the unknown.
16
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What is apathy?
Answer
Lack of feeling, interest, concern, or emotion.
17
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Describe associative looseness.
Answer
Disorganized thinking that jumps from one idea to another with no evident relation between the thoughts.
18
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What is bipolar disorder (manic-depressive)?
Answer
A mood disorder characterized by one episode of manic behavior with or without a history of depression.
19
Question
Define circumstantiality.
Answer
Client eventually answers the question being asked, but only after giving an excessive amount of unnecessary details.
20
Question
What is clang association?
Answer
Rhyming of words.
21
Question
Define 'confused'.
Answer
Bewildered, unclear.
22
Question
What is coprolalia?
Answer
Repeating words socially unacceptable.
23
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Define confabulation.
Answer
Unconscious filling of gaps in memory or untrue experiences that a person believes but have no basis in reality. Detailed fantasy.
24
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What is cyclothymia?
Answer
Mood swings of hypomania and depression.
25
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Define dependence in the context of drug use.
Answer
A state where a drug user takes or increases dose of a drug in order to prevent the onset of symptoms or withdrawal.
26
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What does it mean to be disinhibited?
Answer
A state in which a person is unable to suppress urges or statements which is socially unacceptable.
27
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What is disorientation?
Answer
Disturbances in orientation of time, place or person.
28
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Define dysthymia.
Answer
A 2 years chronic depressed mood disturbances.
29
Question
What is a delusion?
Answer
Fixed false beliefs that have no basis in reality.
30
Question
Describe a paranoid delusion.
Answer
Somebody is going to kill me