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Psych Nsg Term List
Psychiatric Nursing Term List
Question | Answer |
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Hypervigilant | Increased alertness or being watchful. |
Hallucination | False sensory perception without a stimuli. |
Concrete | Type of thinking in which a person uses the literal meaning of words. |
Flight of Ideas | Quickly going from one thought to another. |
Confabulates | Makes up stories due to a memory loss. |
Aloof | Distancing and reserved. |
Intrusive | Invades physical or personal space of another. |
Labile | Unpredictable mood swings. |
Grandiosity | Belief of an exaggerated self-importance. |
Ruminates | Inability to dismiss a thought. |
Echolalia | Repeats what others say. |
Psychomotor Retardation | Slow motor movements. |
Depressed | Feeling of sadness that causes dysfunction. |
Paranoia | Mistrustful and suspicious of others. |
Word Salad | Individual words that have no connection together. |
Delusion | False belief that can not be corrected by logic. |
Hypomania | A milder form of mania. |
Compulsion | Repetitive behavior. |
Ideas of Reference | Belief that an event in the environment has a special meaning. |
Perservation | Repeats a word or phrase. |
Clanging | Rhyming words. |
Echopraxia | Repeats movements of others. |
Blackout | No memory of functioning due to alcohol intake. |
Abstract | Hypothetical thinking. |
Obsession | Repetetive thoughts. |
Catatonic | Immobile and non-responsive. |
Superficial | Does not talk about anything significant. |
Blocking | Pauses or hesitates in speech and thought. |
Psychomotor Agitation | Fast motor movements. |
Poverty of Content | Answers questions with limited information. |
Circumstantiality | Detailed story that eventually reaches a goal. |
Flat | Blank facial expression. |
Visible | Seen in the milieu. |
Anhedonia | No Pleasure. |
Loose Association | Thinking characterized by speech in which ideas change from one subject to an unrelated topic. |
Guarded | Cautious and defensive. |
Religiosity | Preoccupied belief in religious ideas. |
Tangentiality | No point to the conversation. |
Manic | Extreme excitement or euphoria that causes increased activity. |
Amnesia | Inability to recall events. |
Dysthymic | Milder form of depression. |
Hypersomnia | Increased sleeping. |
Neologism | Making up new words. |
Flashback | Reliving a traumatic event. |
Pressured | Speech that is rapid and has force behind the words. |
Illusion | False sensory perception with a stimuli present. |