PSYCHOLOGY VOCABULARY TERMS
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- AFFECT
- OUTWARD EXPRESSION OF INTERNAL EMOTION
- ANHEDONIA
- TOTAL LOSS OF PLEASURE IN ACTIVITIES THAT USUALLY GIVE PLEASURE
- AKINESIA
- LOSS OF SPONTANEOUS SPEECH, DECREASED GESTURING, APATHY, DECREASED OR ABSENT MOVEMENTS; CAN BE A SIDE EFFECT OF ANTIPSYCHOTIC MEDS
- AMBIVALENCE
- HAVING TWO STRONG BUT OPPOSING FEELINGS OR IDEAS SIMULTANEOUSLY
- APHASIA
- LANGUAGE DISTURBANCE
- APRAXIA
- IMPAIRED ABILITY TO CARRY OUT MOTOR FUNCTIONS DESPITE INTACT MOTOR FUNCTION
- ARBITRARY INFERENCE
- DRAWING AN ERRONEOUS CONCLUSION FRFOM AN EXPERIENCE
- AGNOSIA
- FAILURE TO RECOGNIZE OR IDENTIFY NEW OBJECTS DESPITE INTACT SENSORY INFORMATION
- AKATHISIA
- HIGH LEVEL OF MOTOR AGITATION IN WHICH THERE IS A NEED TO MOE AROUND CONSTANTLY; EXTRAPYRAMIDAL SIDE EFFECT OF NEUROLEPTIC DRUGS
- AVOIDANCE TRAINING
- AVOIDING UNPLEASANT STIMULI BY AVOIDING UNDESIRED BEHAVIOR
- BIOFEEDBACK
- TECHNIQUE IN WHICH PATIENT IS PROVIDED ELECTRONIC FEEDBACK ON THEIR STATE OF RELAXATION TO BRING RESPONSES UNDER VOLUNTARY CONTROL
- BLOCKING
- SUDDEN CESSATION OF TRAIN OF THROUGHT
- BRADYKINESIA
- ABNORMAL SLOWNESS OF MOVEMENT AND MENTAL RESPONSES
- CIRCUMSTANTIALITY
- DIFFICULTY IN GETTING TO THE POINT BECAUSE OF UNNECESSARY OR TEDIOUS DETAILS AND IRRELEVANT PARENTHETICAL REMARKS
- CLANG ASSOCIATIONS
- PATTERNS OF SPEECH IN WHICH RHYMING OR PUNNING IS USED FOR WORD CHOICE.
- CONFABULATION
- UNCONSCIOUS FILLING-IN OF MEMORY WITH FABRICATED FACTS OR EXPERIENCES
- COMPULSION
- PERSISTENT IMPULSE TO REPEAT AN IRRATIONAL OR APPARENTLY USELESS ACT
- CONFUSION
- DISORIENTATION TO PERSON, PLACE OR TIME
- COUNTERTRANSFERENCE
- SITUATION IN WHICH THE THERAPIST TRANSFERS FEELINGS AND EMOTIONS OF PAST RELATIONSHIPS ONTO THE PATIENT
- DEJA vU
- AN ILLUSION IN WHICH A NEW SITUATION IS INCORRECTLY VIEWED AS A REPETITION OF A PREVIOUS SITUATION
- DELIRIUM
- ACUTE, REVERSIBLE, ORGANIC CONDITION WITH REDUCED ABILITY TO MAINTAIN ATTENTION TO EXTERNAL STIMULI AND DISORGANIZED THINKING
- DELUSION
- FALSE FIXED BELIEFS THAT ARE MAINTAINED DESPITE INCONTROVERTIBLE EVIDENCE TO THE CONTRARY AND ARE OUTSIDE THE CULTURE; MAY BE PARANOID, SOMATIC OR SHARED WITH ANOTHER PERSON
- DELUSIONS OF GRANDEUR
- DELUSION INVOLVING EXAGGERATED CONCEPT OF ONE'S OWN IMPORTANCE, POWER, KNOWLEDGE, OR THAT ONE HAS A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP WITH A DEITY OR IMPORTANT PERSON
- DELUSION OF PERSECUTION
- DELUSION THAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO HARM, SPY ON, OR OTHERWISE INTERFERE WITH PERSONAL AFFAIRS
- DELUSION OF REFERENCE
- DELUSION THAT ORDINARY EVENTS, OBJECTS, OR BEHAVIORS OF OTHERS HAVE PARTICULAR MEANING SPECIFICALLY FOR ONSELF
- DENIAL
- IGNORING OR BEHAVING AS IF AN UNDESIREABLE SITUATION DOES NOT EXIST
- DEPERSONALIZATION
- BELIEF THAT ONE IS UNREAL, STRANGE, AND DETACHED FROM THE ENVIRONMENT
- DEREALIZATION
- BELIEF THAT THE REST OF THE WORLD IS UNREAL, STRANGE, AND DETACHED FROM ONESELF
- DICHOTOMOUS THINKING
- SEEING THINGS IN AN ALL OR NOTHING WAY
- DISPLACEMENT
- SHIFTING OF EMOTION ATTACHED TO ONE PERSON OR EVENT TO ANOTHER PERSON OR EVENT IN ORDER TO RESOLVE EMOTIONAL CONFLICT
- DOUBLE DEPRESSION
- MAJOR DEPRESSION SUPERIMPOSED ON TOP OF DYSTHYMIA
- DYSTONIA
- ABNORMAL MUSCLE TONE - INCLUDES TORTICOLLIS OCULOGYRIC CRISIS AND SUSTAINED CONTRACTION OF OTHER MUSCLE GROUPS INCLUDING THE TONGUE AND JAW
- ECHOLALIA
- STEREOTYPED REPETITION OF ANOTHER PERSON'S WORDS OR PHRASES
- ECHOPRAXIA
- STEROTYPED REPETITION OF ANOTHER PERSON'S BODY MOVEMENTS
- EROTOMANIC DELUSION
- FALSE BELIEF THAT SOMEONE ELSE, USUALLY OF HIGHER STATUS, IS IN LOVE WITH ONESELF
- EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS
- PLANNING, ORGANIZING, SEQUENCING AND ABSTRACTING
- EXTINCTION
- DECREASE OR LOSS OF A BEHAVIOR DUE TO THE LACK OF PISITIVE REINFORCEMENT
- FLIGHT OF IDEAS
- CONTINUOUS FLOW OF RAPID SPEECH THAT JUMPS FROM TOPIC TO TOPIC, USUALLY BASED ON ASSOCIATIONS BUT MAY BE TOTALLY DISORGANIZED
- FLOODING
- THERAPY IN WHICH THE PATIENT IS DIRECTLY EXPOSED TO THINGS THAT THEY WISH TO AVOID UNTIL THE WISH TO AVOID IT IS EXTINGUISHED
- FORMICATION
- TACTILE HALLUCINATION IN WHICH BUGS ARE FELT TO BE CRAWLING ON THE SKIN
- FREE ASSOCIATION
- TECHNIUE OF PSYCHOANALYTIC PSYCHOTHERAPY IN WHICH THE PATIENT SAYS WHAEVER COMES INTO HIS OR HER MIND
- HALLUCINATIONS
- FALSE PERCEPTIONS OF A SENSORY STIMULUS IN THE ABSENCE OF THAT STIMULUS; MAY INCLUDE AUDITORY, VISUAL, GUSTATORY, OLFACTORY, TACTILE, KINESTHETIC, HYPNAGOGIC OR HYPNOPOMPIC
- HYPNAGOGIC
- HALLUCINATION OCCURS WHILE WAKING UP
- HYPNOSIS
- THEUSE OF TRANCE STATES TO MAKE PATIENT MORE SUGGESTIBLE
- HYPOMANIC
- MANIC OR DEPRESSIVE TYPE MOOD THAT DOES NOT IMPAIR SOCIAL OR OCCUPATIONAL FUNCTIONING
- HYPNOPOMPIC
- HALLUCINATION OCCURS WHILE FALLING ASLEEP
- IDEAS OF REFERENCE
- INTERPRETATION OF UNRELATED EVENTS AS HAVING RELEVANCE TO ONESELF
- ILLUSION
- FALSE INTERPRETATION OF A REAL SENSORY INPUT
- INSIGHT
- PROCESS BY WHICH THE MEANING OF AN EXPERIENCE BECOMES CLEAR
- INSOMNIA
- DIFFICULTY IN FALLING ASLEEP OR STAYING ASLEEP; MAY BE INITIAL, MIDDLE OR TERMINAL
- ISOLATION
- WAY OF SEPARATING THE AFFECT FROM THE CONTENT OF PAINFUL EVENT; OFTEN BY OBJECTIFYING IT.
- JARNAIS VU
- FAMILIAR SITUATIONS ARE EXPERIENCED AS UNFAMILIAR
- KINDLING SENSITIZATION THEORY
- EXPOSURE TO AN EPISODE OF MOOD DISORDER PREDISPOSES A PERSON TO HAVE ANOTHER EPISODE OF THAT MOOD DISORDER
- LABILE AFFECT
- SUDDEN SHIFTS IN EMOTIONAL STATE
- LOOSE ASSOCIATIONS
- SHIFTING IDEAS FROM ONE TO ANOTHER WITH NO LOGICAL CONNECTION
- MAGNIFICATION
- MAKING AN EXPERIENCE "BIGGER THAN IT IS" TO GIVE IT A NEGATIVE INTERPRETATION
- MINIMIZATION
- MAKING AN EXPERIENCE "SMALLER THAN IT IS" TO GIVE IT A NEGATIVE INTERPRETATION
- MIXED EPISODE
- EPISODE OF MANIC DEPRESSION IN WHICH MANIA AND DEPRESSION OCCUR CONCURRENTLY
- MOOD
- SUBJECTIVE EXPERIENCE OF AN EMOTION
- MOOD CONGRUENT
- APPLIED TO AFFECT, HALLUCINATIONS AND DELUSIONS WHEN THE CONTENT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE PREDOMINANT MOOD; ASSOCIATED WITH AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
- MOOD INCONGRUENT
- APPLIED TO AFFECT, HALLUCINATIONS AND DELUSIONS WHEN THE CONTENT IS NOT CONSISTENT WITH THE PREDOMINANT MOOD; ASSOCIATED WITH PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS
- NEOLOGISM
- NEW WORDS CREATED OUT OF ELEMENTS OF OLD WORDS
- NEUROLEPTIC MALIGNANT SYNDROME
- COMPLICATION OF ANTIPSYCHOTIC MEDICATION; CAN INCLUDE THE DEVELOPMENT OF MUSCULAR RIGIDITY, ELEVATED TEMP, DIAPHORESIS, DYSPHAGIA, TREMOR, INCONTINENCE, MUTISM, TACHYCARDIA, LABILE BLOOD PRESSURE, LEUKOCYTOSIS, ELEVATED cpk AND ALTERED LEVELS OF CONSCIOUSNESS
- OBSESSIONS
- PERSISTENT INTRUISIVE THOUGHT, IDEA OR IMPULSE THAT IS UNWANTED AND DISTRESSING
- OPISTHOTONUS
- EXTREME HYPEREXTENSION OF HEAD, BACK, ANKLES AND FEET, ASSOCIATED WITH ACUTE DYSTONIC REACTIONS
- ORGANIC BRAIN SYNDROM
- SYNDROME OF MENTAL ILLNESS DUE TO AN ORGANIC CAUSE SUCH AS STROKE OR EPILEPSY
- OVERGENERALIZATION
- MAKING CONCLUSIONS ABOUT EXPERIENCES AND RELATIONSHIPS BASED ON LITTLE EXPERIENCE
- PARANOID DELUSIONS
- BELIEF THAT ONE IS THE CENTER OF A CONSPIRACY, THAT THEY AR BEING FOLLOWED OR THAT PEOPLE ARE THINKING BAD THOUGHTS ABOUT THEM; IDEATION IS SIMILAR BUT LESS FIRMLY HELD
- PARKINSONIAN TREMOR
- COARSE, RHYTHMIC, RESTING TREMOR WITH A FREQUENCY OF 3 AND 6 CYCLES PER SECOND; ASSOCIATED WITH USE OF NEUROLEPTICS
- PRESERVATION
- REPETITION OF THE SAME WORDS OR PHRASES AFTER THE STIMULUS FOR THE RESPONSE HAS CEASED
- PERSONALITY DISORDER
- PATTERN OR TRAIT OF BEHAVIOR THAT DIFFERS FROM OTHERS IN THE CULTURE; CODED ON AXIS II
- PERSONALIZATION
- INTERPRETING EVENTS AS APPLYING TO ONESELF WEN THEY HAVE NO RELATIONSHIP AT ALL
- PHOBIA
- AN ADMITTEDLY IFFATIONAL FEAR OF A PARTICULAR OBJECT OR SITUATION
- POSITIVE IMAGERY
- USE OF PLEASANT IMAGES TO IMPROVE MOOD OR DECREASE ANXIETY
- POVERTY OF SPEECH
- SPEECH THAT IS MINIMAL IN RESPONSE TO QUESTIONS
- PRESSURED SPEECH
- RAPID SPEECH THAT IS DIFFICULT TO INTERRUPT, COMMONLY FOUND IN MANIA
- PROJECTION
- ATTRIBUTING TO OTHERS UNWANTED FEELINGS OR IDEAS THAT ARE EXPERIENCED WITHIN ONESELF
- PSEUDODEMENTIA
- DEMENTIA-LIKE PRESENTATION DUE TO ANOTHER PSYCHIATRIC ILLNESS (EG, MAJOR DEPRESSION OR SCHIZOPHRENIA)
- PSYCHOMOTOR AGITATION
- MOTOR RESTLESSNESS AND HYPERACTIVITY
- PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION
- DECREASED MOTOR ACTIVITY
- PSYCHOSIS
- DISORDERED THINKING IN WHICH REALITY CANNOT BE DISTINGUISHED FROM FANTASY
- PUNISHMENT
- A SPECIFIC UNDESIRED BEHAVIOR IS FOLLOWED BY NEGATIVE REINFORCEMENT
- RABBIT SYNDROME
- RAPID MOVMENTS OF THE LIPS THAT MIMIC CHEWING; ASSOCIATED WITH USE OF ANTIPSYCHOTIC MEDICAATIONS
- REACTION FORMATION
- SUBSTITUTING THE OPPOSITE ATTITUDE FOR ONE THAT IS PSYCHOLOGICALLY PAINFULL
- REAL RELATIONSHIP
- RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PATIENT AND THE ANALYST THAT IS REALISTIC AND GENUINE
- REGRESSION
- RETURN TO A MORE PRIMITIVE WAY OF BEHAVIOR AS A WAY TO ADAPT TO A STRESSFUL SITUATION
- REINFORCEMENT
- FOLLOWING A DESIRED BEHAVIOR WITH A PLEASURABLE CONSEQUENCE
- REPRESSION
- SUPPRESSION OF PAINFUL EMOTIONS AND MEORIES FROM AWARENESS
- RESISTANCE
- ANY OPPOSITION THE PATIENT MAY GIVE TO EXPOSING THE SUBCONSCIOUS
- SELECTIVE ABSTRACTION
- TAKING A DETAIL OUT OF CONTEXT AND USING IT TO DENIGRATE THE WHOLE EXPERIENCE
- SOCIOPATHIC
- PERTAINING TO ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIORS SUCH AS IMPULSIVENESS, VIOLENCE, CAPRICIOUSNESS OR DELINQUENCY
- SOMATIC DELUSIONS
- BELIEF THAT A MECHANICAL DEVICE HAS BEEN PLACED IN ONE'S BODY, THAT ONE'S BODY IS UNDER THE CONTROL OF OTHERS OR THAT PART OF ONE'S BODY IS NOT THEIR OWN
- SOMATIC HALLUCINATIONS
- BELIEF THAT EXTERNAL FORCE IS CAUSEING SOMATIC EFFECTS ON ONE'S BODY, FREQUENTLY SEXUAL IN NATURE
- SPLITTING
- SITUATION IN WHICH THE PATIENT DIVIDES PEOPLE INTO THOSE WHO ARE GOOD AND THOSE WHO ARE BAD
- STEREOTYPING
- ISOLATED, PURPOSELESS MOVEMENT THAT IS PERFORMED REPEATEDLY
- STUPOR
- STAGE OF DEMENTED CONSCIOUSNESS THAT IS ONE STAGE MORE ALERT THAN COMA
- TANGENTIALITY
- OBLIQUE, DIGRESSIVE OR IRRELEVANT REPLIES TO QUESTIONS, NOT ADDRESSING THE CENTRAL THEME
- TARDIVE DYSKINESIA
- UNUSUAL MOTOR MOVEMENTS; COMMONLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE USE OF NEUROLEPTICS
- THOUGHT BROADCASTING
- BELIEF THAT THOUGHTS ARE BEING TRANSMITTED TO THE ENVIRONMENT
- THOUGHT DISORDER
- DISTURBANCE OF THINKING THAT AFFECTS THOUGHT CONTENT OR PROCESS
- THOUGHT INSERTION
- DELUSION THAT THOUGHTS THAT ARE NOT ONE'S OWN ARE BEING INSERTED INTO ONE'S HEAD
- THOUGHT WITHDRAWAL
- BELIEF THAT OTHER PEOPLE ARE TAKING ONE'S THOUGHTS AWAY
- UNDOING
- SUBSTITUTING ONE BEHAVIOR FOR ANOTHER IN AN ATTEMPT TO MODIFY THE INITIAL BEHAVIOR
- VEGETATIVE SIGNS
- INCLUDE DISTURBANCES OF SLEEP, LOSS OF APPETITE, WEIGHTLOSS, CONSTIPATION AND LOSS OF SEXUAL INTEREST
- WORD SALAD
- MEANINGLESS MIX OF WORDS AND PHRASES