Affect and Mood Flashcards
(27 cards)
Mood
Sustained emotion colouring the persons perception of the world
Mood pervasiveness
Sustained duration of mood
Mood reactivity
Fluctuations in mood occurring with change to ones environment
Affect
Present emotional responsiveness inferred from observation
Grief reactions
Normal emotional reactions to traumatic event
Stress reactions
Normal emotional reaction to stress
Anxious foreboding
Sense that something terrible will happen without knowledge of what
Depressed mood
Feeling depressed
Smiling depression
Dissociation of affect where depressed individual showing falsified smile
Belle indifference
Individual undisturbed by condition such as in conversion disorder
Perplexity
The tentative, bewildered, puzzled state
Morbid expressions of emotion
Abnormal expression of emotion where sufferer is unaware of abnormal expression
Incongruity of affect
Misdirection of emotions
Blunted affect
Significant reduction in the intensity of emotional expression
Constriction/flattening
absence of near absence of any sign of affective expression
Labile affect
Abrupt changes in emotion largely unrelated to external stimuli (liable to change; easily altered)
Affective incontinence
Difficulty controlling emotions
Morbid disorders of emotion
Abnormal reaction triggered by stressful even but does not resolve with removal of stressor
Anhedonia
Significant diminshed enjoyment of previously pleasureable activites
Somatization
Experience of bodily symptoms DT psychological causation
Loss of emotional resonance
Loss of normal reactive changes of emotion to environment
Diurnal mood variation
Variation in mood depending on time of the day
Morbid anxiety/agitation
Abnormal anxiety and agitation
Apathy
Lack of feeling, emotion, interest and concern
