Mental Heath Flashcards
Quiz-Passive aggressive personality
Its main distinguishing feature is indirect resistance to the demands or expectations of others through stubbornness, forgetfulness, inefficiency, procrastination, and other covert
means. Rather than refusing outright to perform a task, the passive-aggressive person will do it badly or procrastinate until the deadline for its completion has passed.
Quiz-Psychosis
A symptom of mental illness characterized by a radical change in personality and a distorted or diminished sense of objective reality.
Quiz-Placebo effect
In research, a scientifically significant response that cannot be explained by physiological variables and is assumed to be psychological in origin. Placebos are substances with no known pharmacological value that are given to members of a control group in an experiment.
Quiz-Narcissism
Excessive preoccupation with self and lack of empathy for others.
Quiz-Mania
A description of the condition opposite depression in manic-depressive psychosis, or bipolar disorder. It is characterized by a mood of elation without apparent reason.
Quiz-Introversion
A commonly used term for people who are quiet, reserved, thoughtful, and self-reliant and who tend to prefer solitary work and leisure activities.
Quiz-Id
In psychoanalytic theory, the most primitive, unconscious element of human personality. The id is the part of the personality that includes such basic biological impulses or drives as eating, drinking, eliminating wastes, avoiding pain, attaining sexual pleasure, and aggression.
Quiz- Extroversion
A term used to characterize people who are typically outgoing, friendly, and open toward others.
Quiz-Empathy
The capacity to vicariously experience and understand the thoughts and feelings of another person by putting oneself in that person’s place.
Quiz-Affect
The psychological term for an observable expression of emotion.
A persons affect is the expression of emotion or feelings displayed to other though facial expressions hand gestures, voice tone, and other emotional signs such as laughter or tears
Quiz-Ego
is that portion of the personality that imposes realistic limitations on the id.
Quiz-Desensitization
A behavior modification technique used to combat phobias and other irrational fears.
Quiz-Depression
An emotional state or mood characterized by one or more of these symptoms: sad mood, low energy, poor concentration, sleep or appetite changes, feelings of worthlessness or hopelessness, and thoughts of suicide.
Quiz-Apathy
Can be defined as an absence or suppression of emotion, feeling, concern, or passion, and it is an indifference to things generally found to be exciting or moving.
Quiz-Bipolar disorder
A condition (traditionally called manic depression) in which a person alternates between the two emotional extremes of depression and mania (an elated, euphoric mood).
Quiz-Superego
In psychoanalytic theory, the part of the human personality that represents a person’s inner values and morals; also known as conscience.
Quiz-Biofeedback
A technique that allows individuals to monitor their own physiological processes so they can learn to control them.
Aggression
Any act that is intended to cause pain, suffering or damage to another person.
Alienation
The state of being emotionally separated from others and from one’s own feelings
Antidepressants
Medications used to treat depression