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Mental Health

Exam 3

QuestionAnswer
affect emotional expression
bland affect weak emotional tone
flat affect appears to have a lack of emotional tone
avolition lack of motivation and disregards daily activities and hygiene
alogia decreased verbal communication... don't like to talk
anosognosia lack of insight or awareness of illness.... don't realize they have a problem
anhedonia inability to experience pleasure
anergia lack of energy
waxy flexibility holding our arm out and leaving it there til someone comes back and stay put it down
delusions false beliefs that cannot be changed with reasonable arguement
grandiose delusion believes that they are of a higher power
nihilistic delusion diaster
persecutory delusion think people are out to get them
somatic delusion thinking the body is changing unrealistically like growing a tail or 3rd arm
delusion of reference you think people are thinking or talking about you when they aren't
paranoia suspiciousness of others and their actions
magical thinking thinking that an object holds super powers
religiosity obsession with religious ideas
circumstantiality extremely detailed and lengthy disclosure about a topic
tangentiality introducing additional topics or detail in a conversation so that there is a permanent detour from the original focus of a conversation
associative looseness thinking process characterized by speech in which ideas shift from one unrelated subject to another
mutism an individuals inability to speak
presevation persistently repeating the same word
echolalia a parrot like repetition of overheard words
clang association rhyming words
neologisms made up words
word salad stringing together words that don't make sense
hallucination perceptual experience without actual sensory stimuli involves one of the 5 senses
illusion person exaggerates a stimuli that is actually there... when something is there but not what they said it is
depersonalization feelings of unreality; lost of identity
echopraxia
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