PY606 Abnormal Psychology Definitions-- Week 13 (4/03/06)
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- This term has historically received a number of different definitions, none of which has achieved universal acceptance. The narrowest definition of (WORD) is restricted to delusions or prominent hallucinations, with the hallucinations occurring in the ab
- psychotic
- The phase of an illness that occurs after remission of the florid symptoms or the full syndrome.
- residual phase
- A person's bilogical status as male, female, or uncertain. Depending on the circumstances, this determination may be based on the appearance of the external genitalia or on karyotyping.
- sex
- An objective manifestatin of a pathological condition. Signs are observed by the examiner rather than reported by the affected individual.
- sign
- Repetitive, seemingly driven, and nonfunctional motor behavior (e.g., hand shaking or waving, body rocking, head banging, mouthing of objects, self-biting, picking at skin or body orifices, hitting one's own body.)
- stereotyped movements
- Any life event or life change that may be associated temporally (and perhaps causally) with the onset, occurrence, or exacerbation of a mental disorder.
- stressor (psychosocial)
- A state of unresponsiveness with immobility and mutism.
- stupor
- A subjective manifestation of a pathological condition. Symptoms are reported by the affected individual rather than observed by the examiner.
- symptom
- A grouping of signs and symptoms, based on their frequent co-occurrence, that may suggest a common underlying pathogenesis, course, familial pattern, or treatment selection.
- syndrome
- A condition in which a sensory experience associated with one modality occurs when another modality is stimulated, for example, a sound produces the sensation of a particular color.
- synesthesia
- An involuntary, sudden, rapid, recurrent, nonrhythmic, sterotyped motor movement or vocalization.
- tic
- Severe gender dysphoria, coupled with a persistent desire for the physcial characteristics and social roles that connote the opposite bilogical sex.
- transsexualism
- A sudden, difficult-to-resist urge or drive to perform an act that often results in a sense of relief or release of tension.
- impulse