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Psychology
Undergraduate 3
03/24/2013

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Term
Mental Status Exam
Definition
Appearance and Behavior
Orientation
Content of Thought
Thinking Style / Language
Affect / Mood
Perceptual Experiences
Sense of Self
Motivation
Cognitive Functioning
Insight and Judgement
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Approach
Dangerousness
Alertnes, orientation, intelligence
Executive functions
Term
Testing
Definition
Mental Status Exam
Psychological Testing (reliabilty, validity)
Inteligence Testing
personality and Diagnostic Testing
Behavioral Assessment
Environmental Assessment
Physiological Assessment
Psychosociological Assessment
Brain Imaging Techniques
Neuropsychological Assessment
Term
Insult
Definition
Overexposure to bad elements
Term
Injury
Definition
Disorder
Term
Signs
Definition
Observeable
Term
Symptoms
Definition
Internal
Ex: psychosis (disconnect from real world), depression (withdrawal from real world), mania (loaded with energy
Term
Delusions
Definition
Strongly seeded false beliefs
Term
Hallucinations
Definition
Sensory experience without the stimulus
Term
Disorganization
Definition
Logic / cognition gets fragmented
Term
Axis I
Definition
Treatable
Acute mental disorder
the "diseased"
Term
Axis II
Definition
Not quite treatable
Personality disorder
the "sufferers"
Term
Major Depression
Definition
Sad / depressed mood
Cognitive Triad
Vegetative symptoms
Suicideality
Term
Cognitive Triad for Depression
Definition
1. worthless
2. no help
3. nothing to look forward to
Term
Bipolard Disorder / Mania
Definition
mood: euphoric
cognitions: grandiosity
vegetative symptoms
behavioral disturbance
hard to get them to be compliant to medication
Term
Counter Transerence
Definition
Patients somehow make you feel how they feel
Schizophrenia: concern, confusion
Major depression: frustration, depression
Mania: irritability
Borderline: idealized, devalued, rejecting, helplessness
Antisocial: manipulated, devalued
Term
Dysregulation
Definition
Symptom of Mental Insult and Injury
No ability to subconsioucly control emotions
Term
Borderline
Definition
Emotional lability / sudden intense anger
Impulsivity
Self-harm, suicidality, swallowing objects
Identity disturbance
Interpersonal chaos
Frequently misdiagnosed for bipolar: difference = these changes are not over long periods of time. they are over hours / days
Term
Neuropsychological Assessment
Definition
Awareness orientation
Executive functions (attention, concentration, meory, abstract reasoning, insight, judgement)
Term
Other Assessment Instruments
Definition
WAIS-IV (intelligence tests)
Drawing pictures (copying one, draw a clock, house, tree, person, etc)
Write a narrative based on a picture
Rorshack Inkblot Test
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