PSYCHOLOGY

DEFINE:
• Addiction is a disease in which a person finds themselves unable to
stop using a substance or engaging in a behavior.
• Amnesia, loss of memory occurring most often as a result of damage
to the brain from trauma, stroke, Alzheimer disease, alcohol and drug
toxicity, or infection.
• Aggression as behavior that is intended to harm another individual
who does not wish to be harmed .
• Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder manifested when a person
refuses to eat an adequate amount of food or is unable to maintain
the minimal weight for a person's body mass index.
• Aphasia is a condition that robs you of the ability to communicate. It can
affect your ability to speak, write and understand language, both verbal and
written. Aphasia typically occurs suddenly after a stroke or a head injury.
• Bipolar disorder, also known as manic depression, is a mental illness that
brings severe high and low moods and changes in sleep, energy, thinking, and
behavior.
• People with this eating disorder engage in binge eating and purging
behaviors. What this means is that a person who suffers from Bulimia Nervosa
will have episodes during which they eat tremendous amounts of food
(usually foods that are high in calories) and then go vomit or use laxatives to
lose weight.
• Circumstantiality is defined as circuitous and non-direct thinking or speech
that digresses from the main point of a conversation.
• Catatonia is a group of symptoms that usually involve a lack of movement
and communication, and also can include agitation, confusion, and
restlessness. Until recently, it was thought of as a type of schizophrenia.
• psychological crisis is a life event that an individual perceives as stressful to
the extent that normal coping mechanisms are insufficient.
• Delirium is a serious disturbance in mental abilities that results in confused
thinking and reduced awareness of the environment. The start of delirium is
usually rapid — within hours or a few days.
• Grief can be described as the intense emotional and physical reaction that
an individual experiences following the death of a loved one.
• Libido ( sex drive) is a person's overall sexual drive or desire for sexual
activity.
• Echolalia is the unsolicited repetition of vocalizations made by another
person (when repeated by the same person, it is called palilalia).

• Echopraxia refers to a pathological automatic imitative response, or desire to

mimic other's behaviors.
• Paranoia involves intense anxious or fearful feelings and thoughts often
related to persecution, threat, or conspiracy. Paranoia occurs in many mental
disorders, but is most often present in psychotic disorders.
• Pica is an eating disorder typically defined as the persistent ingestion of
nonnutritive substances for at least 1 month at an age for which this
behavior is developmentally inappropriate.