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Mental Health
Exam 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| affect | emotional expression |
| bland affect | weak emotional tone |
| flat affect | appears to have a lack of emotional tone |
| avolition | lack of motivation and disregards daily activities and hygiene |
| alogia | decreased verbal communication... don't like to talk |
| anosognosia | lack of insight or awareness of illness.... don't realize they have a problem |
| anhedonia | inability to experience pleasure |
| anergia | lack of energy |
| waxy flexibility | holding our arm out and leaving it there til someone comes back and stay put it down |
| delusions | false beliefs that cannot be changed with reasonable arguement |
| grandiose delusion | believes that they are of a higher power |
| nihilistic delusion | diaster |
| persecutory delusion | think people are out to get them |
| somatic delusion | thinking the body is changing unrealistically like growing a tail or 3rd arm |
| delusion of reference | you think people are thinking or talking about you when they aren't |
| paranoia | suspiciousness of others and their actions |
| magical thinking | thinking that an object holds super powers |
| religiosity | obsession with religious ideas |
| circumstantiality | extremely detailed and lengthy disclosure about a topic |
| tangentiality | introducing additional topics or detail in a conversation so that there is a permanent detour from the original focus of a conversation |
| associative looseness | thinking process characterized by speech in which ideas shift from one unrelated subject to another |
| mutism | an individuals inability to speak |
| presevation | persistently repeating the same word |
| echolalia | a parrot like repetition of overheard words |
| clang association | rhyming words |
| neologisms | made up words |
| word salad | stringing together words that don't make sense |
| hallucination | perceptual experience without actual sensory stimuli involves one of the 5 senses |
| illusion | person exaggerates a stimuli that is actually there... when something is there but not what they said it is |
| depersonalization | feelings of unreality; lost of identity |
| echopraxia |