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AP- SAGU Q#2
Abnorm. Psych. SAGU Quiz #2
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Circumstantiality | incidental thinking. Speech that is indirect and delayed reaching the point because of unnecessary, non-essential details. The goal of the thinking is ultimately reached. |
| Clang Association | a disturbance in thinking in which the sound of the speech governs word choice. It may include rhyming or punning. |
| Claustrophobia | dread of closed places |
| Compulsion | a repetitive, compelling act, seemingly purposeful, that develops in response to an obsession or it is performed in accordance with certain rules or in a stereotypic manner. Uncontrollable impulse to perform an act repetitively. |
| Conversion Symptoms | a loss or alteration of physical functioning that suggests a physical disorder, but that is actually a direct expression of a psychological conflict or need. |
| Clouding of Consciousness | is impairment of retention, perception, and orientation. Common in organic mental disorders. |
| Coma | a state of unawareness, nonreactiveness, and profound unconsciousness |
| Confusion | disorientation in respect to time, place, or person accompanied by perplexity. Common in organic mental disorders. |
| Coprolalia | compulsive utterance of obscene words. |
| Delusion | fixed, false belief, based on incorrect inference (not in keeping with the person's cultural level)firmly sustained in spite of obvious proof to the contrary. |
| Persecutory Delusion | a belief that one is singled out for oppression, attack, or harassment. |
| Delusion of being controlled | a belief in which feelings, impulses, thought or actions, are experienced as being not one's own, as being imposed by some external force. |
| Bizarre Delusion | a false belief that involves a phenomenon that the person's culture would regard as totally implausible. |
| Delusions of Grandeur | an exaggerated belief in one's own importance, power, knowledge, or identity. |
| Nihilistic Delusions | a belief involving the theme of nonexistence of the self or part of the self, others or the world |
| Delusions of Reference | a false belief that the irrelevant remarks or acts of others refer to oneself. Also this may involve a false belief that events or objects in one's environement refer to oneself. |
| Somatic Delusions | a deluded interpretation of physical symptoms. Also value in spite of evidence to the contrary. |
| Delusional Jealousy | a false belief that one's sexual partner is unfaithful |
| Catalepsy | a generalized diminished responsiveness or immobility characterized by trance-like states. Found in organic mental disorders. |
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