Psychiatric Nursing Terms to Remember
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What term refers to the mental forces that influence development and motivate behavior?

  • Somnambolism
  • Psychodynamics (correct)
  • Superego
  • Pyromania
  • Which term refers to the period of recovery from the symptoms of an illness?

  • Retardation
  • Remission (correct)
  • Sterotypy
  • Subconscious
  • What does the term 'seclusive' mean?

  • Deriving sexual satisfaction by inflicting pain on others
  • A morbid, uncontrollable impulse to set fires
  • Drawing away from others and remaining by oneself (correct)
  • Sleep walking
  • Which term refers to slowing down in action, thoughts, or both?

    <p>Retardation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for wearing the clothing of the opposite sex?

    <p>Transvestism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for deriving sexual satisfaction by inflicting pain upon others?

    <p>Sadism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term used to describe the inability to identify the date, time, and place?

    <p>Disorientation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which term refers to a false belief?

    <p>Delusion</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the term for the expression of an emotional conflict as a physical symptom?

    <p>Conversion</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Which term refers to a periodic overwhelming desire for alcoholic drinks?

    <p>Dipsomania</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the term 'Lucid interval' refer to?

    <p>A brief period of normal reasoning and judgment during mental illness</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What psychological method serves to solve conflicts and meet the needs of the personality?

    <p>Mental Mechanism</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In psychiatry, what does 'Id' refer to?

    <p>'Unconscious part of the personality containing primitive drives and desires'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Homosexual' refers to sexual attraction towards which type of individuals?

    <p>'Same sex'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    'Multiple personality' is a dissociative reaction where a person adopts how many different personalities?

    <p>'Two or more'</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does 'Empathy' involve in understanding others?

    <p>Appreciating another's feelings without experiencing the same emotional reaction.</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the definition of Narcissism?

    <p>Unconscious self love observed equally in childhood and adulthood</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does Pedophilia refer to?

    <p>Sexual love for children</p> Signup and view all the answers

    In Psychiatry, what does the term 'Organic Mental Disorder' refer to?

    <p>Psychiatric disorder caused by physical changes in body tissues</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What does the term 'Negativism' refer to?

    <p>Doing the opposite of desired behavior</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What do Neurologists specialize in?

    <p>Study and treatment of diseases of the nervous system</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the characteristic of someone who is 'Oriented'?

    <p>Identifying time, place, and person</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Psychiatric Terminology

    • Affect: a subjective feeling tone
    • Ambivalence: coexisting of two contrasting or opposing feelings
    • Amnesia: partial or complete loss of memory
    • Apathy: absence of interest or emotion in a situation that would ordinarily arouse a response
    • Autism: subjective thinking with much introspection, resulting in fantasy, delusion, and hallucination

    Conflict and Defense Mechanisms

    • Conflict: two opposing incompatible drives or action systems requiring the individual to make a choice between possible responses
    • Conversion: the expression of an emotional conflict as a physical symptom, relieving anxiety and unpleasant feelings
    • Delusion: a false belief
    • Depersonalization: loss of feeling of personal identity with oneself

    Personality and Identity

    • Ego: the conscious self that deals with reality
    • Egocentric: self-centered
    • Empathy: appreciating another's feelings without experiencing the same emotional reaction
    • Extrovert: an individual who focuses interest and directs energies outward from the self

    Psychiatric Disorders and Symptoms

    • Functional Mental Disorder: a psychiatric disorder in which organic change cannot be observed as a cause of the disease
    • Hallucination: a false sensory perception associated with special senses
    • Hyperactive: excessive physical and mental activity
    • Insomnia: inability to fall asleep
    • Lucid interval: a remission of symptoms in mental illness when the patient's reasoning and judgment appear normal for a brief period

    Mental Mechanisms and Disorders

    • Identification: a mental mechanism by which an individual unconsciously patterns himself after another person
    • Illusion: misinterpretation of someone or something in the environment
    • Incest: sexual relations between two people closely linked by blood ties
    • Multiple personality: a major dissociative reaction in which the person adopts two or more different personalities
    • Mutism: lack of verbal response which may be voluntary or involuntary

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    Test your knowledge of key terms in psychiatric nursing with this quiz. Terms such as affect, ambivalence, amnesia, apathy, and autism will be covered.

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