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A Psychiatric SG1
Question | Answer |
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Loss of memory | amnesia |
Severe lack of responsiveness to others, preoccupation with inner thoughts; withdrawal and retarded language development. | autism |
Uncontrollable urge to perform act repeatedly. | compulsion |
The internalized conscience and moral part of the personality. | superego |
Unstable; undergoing rapid emotional change. | labile |
A fixed, false belief that cannot be changed by logical reasoning or evidence. | delusion |
Varying degree of uneasiness, apprehension, or dread often accompanied by palpitations, tightness in the chest, breathlessness, and choking sensations. | anxiety |
Delusions of persecution or grandeur or combinations of the two. | paranoia |
Sadness, hopelessness; depressive mood. | dysphoria |
The central coordinating branch of the personality. | ego |
Exaggerated feeling of well-being. | euphoria |
Nonreactive state; stupor. | mutism |
Absence of emotions; lack of interest or emotional involvement. | apathy |
Involves significant impairment of reality testing, with symptoms such as delusions | psychosis |
State of excessive excitability; hyperactivity and agitation. | mania |
Anxiety becomes a bodily symptom, such as blindness, deafness, or paralysis, that | conversion |
An involuntary, persistent idea or emotion. | obsession |
Techniques people employ to ward off the anxiety produced by these conflicts. | defense mechanisms |
Marked by intense fear or discomfort and symptoms such as palpitations, sweating, | panic attack |
Uncomfortable feelings are separated from their real object. In order to avoid mental | dissociation |
False or unreal sensory perception as, for example, hearing voices when none are | hallucination |
Represents the unconscious instincts | id |
Gradual loss of intelectual abilities | dementia |
Eating disorders | bulimia & anorexia |
Drugs that produce a state of CNS excitment, hyperactivity, hallucinations, delusions, HTN, mood change. | hallucinogens |