Terminology

Question 1

What is dysphoria?

Answer 1

Sadness

Question 2

What does idiographic mean? (i-dee-ow-gra-fuhk)

Answer 2

Focusing on the individual

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What is acute?

Answer 3

Occurring suddenly and time limited

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What is a delusion?

Answer 4

A belief that is completely false

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What is co-morbidity?

Answer 5

Multiple disorders

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What is mania?

Answer 6

State of excitement

Question 7

What is mental status?

Answer 7

Assessment of a person’s cognitive, emotional, and behavioral state

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What is a schema?

Answer 8

A collection of basic knowledge about a concept that serves as a guide

Question 9

What does nomothetic mean? (now-mow-theh-tuhk)

Answer 9

Focusing on groups of individuals

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What is chronic?

Answer 10

Continuing or ongoing

Question 11

What is decompensation?

Answer 11

Failure to cope in response to stress

Question 12

What is agnosia? (ag-now-zhuh)

Answer 12

An inability to recognize objects

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What does transdiagnostic refer to?

Answer 13

Description of treatments that apply the same principles across multiple disorders

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What is a prefrontal lobotomy?

Answer 14

Surgical procedure pioneered by Moniz which involved cutting in the frontal lobe area

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What are coping skills?

Answer 15

Methods people use to deal with stressful situations

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What is efficacy?

Answer 16

Measure of effectiveness of a treatment technique in psychotherapy

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What is epigenetics?

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Study of how environmental conditions can change the expression of genes without changing the genetic sequence

Question 18

What is etiology? (ee-tee-aa-luh-jee)

Answer 18

The cause of something

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What is a hallucination?

Answer 19

An experience involving the apparent perception of something not present

Question 20

What is malingering?

Answer 20

Faking for a purpose

Question 21

What is psychosis?

Answer 21

Loss of contact with reality

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What is validity?

Answer 22

The extent to which something measures what it is supposed to measure

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What is dissociation?

Answer 23

The mental process of disconnecting from one’s thoughts, feelings, memory, or identity

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What is euphoria?

Answer 24

Feelings of elation

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What is reliability?

Answer 25

The consistency of a measure

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What is alogia? (ay-low-jee-uh)

Answer 26

Difficulty in speaking

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What is aphasia?

Answer 27

An impairment of language

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What is word salad?

Answer 28

Unintelligible unorganized speech

Question 29

What is differential diagnosis?

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The process of determining which of two or more diseases or disorders with overlapping symptoms a particular patient has

Question 30

What is waxy flexibility?

Answer 30

Psychomotor symptom that leads to a decreased response to stimuli and a tendency to remain in an immobile posture

Question 31

What is vaginismus? (va-juh-niz-muhs)

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Painful spasmodic contraction of the vagina in response to sexual intercourse

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What is apraxia? (ay-prak-see-uh)

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Loss of ability to execute motor movements

Question 33

What is avolition? (a-vuh-li-shn)

Answer 33

A failure to engage in goal directed behavior

Question 34

What is clang?

Answer 34

An association of words by sound rather than by meaning

Question 35

What is transorbital lobotomy?

Answer 35

Often called the 'ice pick lobotomy,' it’s use was pioneered by Walter Freeman and consisted of forcing an ice pick into the back of the eyelid in order to destroy the part of the brain thought to be responsible for mental illness

Question 36

What is thought withdrawal?

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The belief that other people have the power to remove thoughts and/or feelings from a person’s mind

Question 37

What is depersonalization?

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A loss of identity or feeling detached from one’s self

Question 38

What is derealization?

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A feeling that one’s surroundings are not real

Question 39

What is thought insertion?

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The belief that others can insert thoughts, feelings, behaviors into one’s mind

Question 40

What is the diathesis stress model?

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The idea that psychological disorders arise from inherent vulnerabilities and environmental stressors

Question 41

What is thought broadcasting?

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The belief that others can hear or are aware of a person’s thoughts and/or feelings

Question 42

What is dyspareunia? (duh-spr-oo-nee-uh)

Answer 42

Painful sexual intercourse

Question 43

What is echolalia? (eh-kuh-la-lee-uh)

Answer 43

Mimicking and repeating something that is said

Question 44

What is hypomania?

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A condition similar to mania but less severe

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What are ideas of reference?

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The interpretation of common events as having high personal significance

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What is loose association?

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Lack of logical connections

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What is neologism?

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A made up word that only the person who made it up knows the definition of

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What is perseveration?

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Repetition of a particular response despite the cessation of a stimulus

Question 49

What is a schizophrenogenic mother? (schizo-phreno-genic)

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A discredited theory that mothers of people diagnosed with schizophrenia were responsible for their child’s diagnosis

Question 50

What is tardive dyskinesia? (taar-duhv-di-skuh-nee-zhuh)

Answer 50

A neurological disorder characterized by involuntary movements