A and P 3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Hallucinogens | substance creating distortions of the mind |
| conversion disorder | person transforms anxiety into illness that has no med. basis but an individual shows physical symptoms of disorder |
| supression | voluntary blocking of unpleasant feelings and experiences from ones mind |
| healthy person | learns to deal with these situations by accepting, understanding, and coping with the reactions to them so life can go on |
| acrophobia | fear of heights |
| aerophobia | fear of fresh air/ drafts |
| agoraphobia | fear of crowds, public places |
| arachnophobia | fear of spiders |
| OCD | repeated irrational impulses that individual feels must continue |
| Posttraumatic stress syndrome | individual experiences symptoms following exposure to an extremely traumatic event |
| mental health | relative state of mind in which a person whos healthy is able to cope with and adjust tothe recurrent stresses of everyday living in an acceptable way |
| CNC stimulants | substance increases activity of cns, causing increased heart rate,BP, heightened behaviorer activity and increased alertness |
| mental disorders | disturbances of emotional stability, as shown in maladaptive behavior and impaired functions |
| regression | response to stress in which the individual revents to an earlier level of development and the comfort measure associate with that level of function |
| somatoform sleep and factitious disorders | neurotic disorders symptoms suggesting physical illness/ disease, for which theres not evidence of organisms |
| anxiety and lack of self esteem | 2 biggest obstacles to achieving mental health |
| anxiety disorders | state of mind in which individual feels increased tension, apprehension, a painful increase of helplessness, uncertainy, fear, jitteriness and worry. generalized anxiety disorder - panic disorder |
| amnesia | short/long term memory loss |
| delirium | state of frenzied excitement |
| dementia | progressive disorder characterized by confusion |
| cyclothymiacs disorders | chronic mood disorder - numerousperiods of mood swings from depression to happiness |
| cognitive disorders | disorders that affect individuals ability to perceive, think,reason, and remember |
| schizophrenia | condition in which thinking processes are disturbed by delusions, hallucinations/both |
| Compensation | an effort to overcome, or make up for real/ imagined inadequacies |
| denial | refusal to admit/ acknowledge the reality of something, thus avoiding emotions, conflict/ anxiety |
| mental health | characteristic way of thinking, behaving, and reacting to your surroundings |
| repression | bodys unconcious reaction used to protect itself from conflict/ anxieties |
| sublimation | (the one exception to repression) rechanneling/ redirecting ones unacceptable impulses and drives into constructive activities |
| intoxication | minuse of drugs- impaired judgement, slurred speech, loss of coordination, irritability, and mood change |
| dissociation | idea,thought,emotion/mental process in separated from consciousness and there by loses emotional significance |
| projection | ego defense mechanism where by an individual unconsciously identifies with another person with some object |
| projection 2 | act of transferring ones own unacceptable thoughts/feelings on to someone else |
| CNS depressants | substance slows activity of the CNS, causing impaired motor activity, judgement and concentration |
| claustrophobia | fear of enclosed spaces |
| nyctophobia | fear of the dark |
| zoophobia | fear of animals |
| psychosis | condition characterized by loss of contact with reality |
| displacement | process of transfering a feeling/ emotions from the original idea/ object to a substituted idea of object |
| rationalization | attempting to make excuses or invent logical reasons to justify unacceptable feelings/ behaviors |
| compulsions | habitual use of inappropriate/ stereotyped ways of coping with the environment |
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