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AP- SAGU Q#1
Abnorm. Psych. SAGU Quiz #1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Affect | expression of a subjectively experienced emotional state |
| Restricted Affect | reduction in the expression and intensity of affects |
| Inappropriate Affect | inconsistent with the content of a person's thought and speech |
| Incongruent Affect | inconsistent with the person's mood, i.e. smiling or depression |
| Labile Affect | abrupt, shifting, rapid and repeated affects |
| Anxiety | diffuse, unpleasant, uneasiness, apprehension, and tension stemming from anticipated danger, either internal, external, or both |
| Free-floating Anxiety | severe, persistent, unfocused, generalized |
| Agitation | a state of restlessness and uneasiness often characterized by motor restlessness and other muscle manifestations |
| Tension | tautness, motor restlessness |
| Panic | acute anxiety of overwhelming proportiions often with sudden onset characterised by physical symptoms. It produces physiological changes and terror. |
| Normal | source of anxiety is actual and realistic |
| Ambivalence | coexistence of two opposing feelings toward the same individual or object |
| Apathy | lack of feeling, emotion, interest, or concern |
| Amnesia | pathological loss of memory. It may be organic or psychogenic. |
| Autistic Fantasy | persistent overindulgence in fantasy |
| Acting Out | a mechanism in which the person acts without reflection or apparent regard for negative consequences |
| Blocking | interruption of a train of speech or thought often before an idea has been completed. The person desribes losing his or her train of thought. |
| Catatonic Behavior | marked motor anomalies |
| Catatonic Excitement | excited motor activity, apparently purposeless |
| Catatonic Posturing | voluntary assumption of an inappropriate or bizarre postrue usually held for a long period of time. |
| Catatonic Rigidity | maintenance of a rigid posture against all efforts to be moved |
| Catatonic Stupor | marked decrease in reactivity to environement, reduction in spontaneous movements and activity. |
| Catatonic Waxy Flexibility | the person's limbs can be "molded" into any position. Condition in which a client passively retains the position into which he or she has been placed. |
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