Psychiatric Disorders Definitions

Question 1

What is a feeling or emotion manifested by facial expressions or body language?

Answer 1

Affect

Question 2

What is the absence of interest in or pleasure from performance of acts that would ordinarily be enjoyable?

Answer 2

Anhedonia

Question 3

What is medication designed to treat anxiety?

Answer 3

Anxiolytic

Question 4

What is excessive eating beyond the amount necessary to satisfy appetite?

Answer 4

Binge

Question 5

What is a syndrome of psychomotor retardation characterized by periods of physical rigidity and lack of response to outside stimuli?

Answer 5

Catatonia

Question 6

What is an uncontrollable impulse to perform an act, often repeatedly, as an unconscious mechanism to avoid unacceptable ideas or desires, which by themselves arouse anxiety?

Answer 6

Compulsion

Question 7

What is a false belief or wrong judgment held with conviction despite incontrovertible evidence to the contrary?

Answer 7

Delusion

Question 8

What is a behavior that is neither goal directed or guided by rational or preconceived plan?

Answer 8

Disorganized Behavior

Question 9

What is speech in which the statements are not logically connected to each other?

Answer 9

Disorganized speech

Question 10

What is an unconscious separation of a group of mental processes from the rest of the conscious awareness?

Answer 10

Dissociation

Question 11

What is the disturbance in amount, quality, or timing of sleep?

Answer 11

Dyssomnia

Question 12

What are higher levels of cognitive/mental functioning including planning, abstraction, inductive reasoning, and organizing?

Answer 12

Executive functioning

Question 13

What is the subjective perception of an object or an event when no such stimulus or situation exists?

Answer 13

Hallucination

Question 14

What is a misinterpretation or false perception of a real sensory stimulus?

Answer 14

Illusion

Question 15

What is a sudden, often unreasonable, determination to perform some act, the performance of which often provides a sense of relief or a release of tension?

Answer 15

Impulse

Question 16

What is the inability to fall or stay asleep in the absence of external impediments during the period sleep should occur?

Answer 16

Insomnia

Question 17

What is a pervasive feeling, tone, or internal emotional state which, when impaired, can markedly influence virtually all aspects of a person’s behavior or perception of external events?

Answer 17

Mood

Question 18

What is the state in which the individual interprets and regards everything in relation to himself and not to others?

Answer 18

Narcissism

Question 19

What is a recurrent and persistent idea, though or impulse to carry out an act?

Answer 19

Obsession

Question 20

What is a belief system that includes extreme suspiciousness and mistrust of others?

Answer 20

Paranoia

Question 21

What is an abnormal increase in physical and emotional behavior?

Answer 21

Psychomotor agitation

Question 22

What is the abnormal slowing in physical and emotional activity?

Answer 22

Psychomotor retardation

Question 23

What is the mental and behavioral disorder causing gross distortion or disorganization of a person’s mental capacity; a defective response and capacity to recognize reality, communicate and relate to others to the degree of interfering with the person’s capacity to cope with ordinary demands of everyday life?

Answer 23

Psychosis

Question 24

What is to cause copious evacuation of the bowels and stomach by the induction of vomiting, or the use of enemas or laxative?

Answer 24

Purge

Question 25

What is an event or situation that induces psychological, emotional or behavioral distress?

Answer 25

Stressor