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AB PSYCH PRACTICE TEST 1 Flashcards

1
Q 
disturbance of orientation in time, place, or person.
Delirium:
Clouding of consciousness
Disorientation:
Coma:
A

Disorientation:

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incomplete clear-mindedness with disturbances in perception and
attitudes.

Delirium:
Clouding of consciousness
Disorientation:
Coma:

A

Clouding of consciousness

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lack of reaction to and unawareness of surroundings.
Delirium:
Stupor
Disorientation:
Coma:
A

Stupor

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bewildered, restless, confused, disoriented reaction associated with fear and hallucinations.
Delirium:
Clouding of consciousness
Disorientation:
Coma:
A

Delirium:

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profound degree of unconsciousness
Coma vigil
Clouding of consciousness
Disorientation:
Coma:
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Coma:

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\: coma in which a patient appears to be asleep but ready to be aroused (also known
as akinetic mutism)
Coma vigil
Clouding of consciousness
Disorientation:
Coma:
A

Coma vigil

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disturbed consciousness with hallucinations.
Coma vigil
Twilight state:
Disorientation:
Coma:
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Twilight state:

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abnormal drowsiness.
Coma vigil
Twilight state:
Somnolence:
Confusion:
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Somnolence:

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disturbance of consciousness in which reactions to environmental stimuli are
inappropriate, manifested by a disordered orientation in relation to time, place or person.
Coma vigil
Twilight state:
Somnolence:
Confusion:

A

Confusion:

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often used as a synonym for complex partial seizure of psychomotor
epilepsy.
Coma vigil
Dreamlike state:
Somnolence:
Confusion:
A

Dreamlike state

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state of impaired awareness associated with a desire or inclination to sleep.

Selective inattention
Somnolence:
Hypervigilance:
Drowsiness

A

. Drowsiness

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sydrome in older people that usually occurs at night and is characterized by
drowsiness, confusion, ataxia and falling as the result of being overly sedated with
medication; also called sundowner’s syndrome.
Distractibility:
Sundowning
Selective inattention
Confusion:

A

Sundowning

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inability to concentrate attention; state in which attention is drawn to
unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli.
Distractibility:
Sundowning
Hypervigilance:
Selective inattention

A

Distractibility:

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blocking out only those that generate anxiety.
Distractibility: 
Trance
 Hypervigilance:
Selective inattention
A

Selective inattention

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excessive attention and focus on all internal and external stimuli, usually
secondary to delusional or paranoid states.
Distractibility:
Trance
Hypervigilance:
Selective inattention

A

Hypervigilance:

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: focused attention and altered consciousness, usually seen in hypnosis, dissociative
disorders, and ecstatic religious experiences.
Distractibility:
Trance
Hypervigilance:
Selective inattention

A

Trance

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17
Q 
communicated emotional illness between two (or three)
persons.
Hypnosis
Fausse reconnaissance:
Amnesia:
Folie a deux (or folie a trios):
A

Folie a deux (or folie a trios):

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18
Q 
artificially induced modification of consciousness characterized by a heightened
suggestibility.
Hypnosis
Fausse reconnaissance:
Amnesia:
Paramnesia:
.
A

Hypnosis:

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Q 
partial or total inability to recall past experiences, may be organic or emotional in origin.
Hypnosis
Fausse reconnaissance:
Amnesia:
Folie a deux (or folie a trios):
.
A

Amnesia:

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falsification of memory by distortion of recall.
Confabulation: 
Fausse reconnaissance:
Retrospective falsification
Paramnesia:
A

Paramnesia:

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Q 
false recognition.
Confabulation: 
Fausse reconnaissance:
Retrospective falsification
Paramnesia:
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Fausse reconnaissance:

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memory becomes unintentionally (unconsciously) distorted by being filtered through a person’s present emotional, cognitive, and experiential state.
Confabulation: 
Fausse reconnaissance:
Retrospective falsification
Paramnesia:
A

Retrospective falsification

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unconscious filling of gaps in memory by imagined or untrue experiences that a person believes but that have no basis in fact, most often associated with organic pathology,

Confabulation:
False memory
Retrospective falsification
Deja vu:

A

Confabulation:

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24
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illusion of visual recognition in which a new situation is uncorrectly
regarded as a repetition of a previous memory.
False memory:
Deja pense:
Déjà vu
Deja entendu:

A

Déjà vu

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illusion of auditory recognition.

Jamais vu:
Deja pense:
Deja entendu:

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Deja entendu:

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Q 
illusion that a new thought is recognized as a thought previously felt or
expressed.
Jamais vu:
Deja pense:
False memory:
 Deja entendu:
A

Deja pense:

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Q 
false feeling of unfamiliarity with a real situation that a person has
experienced.
Jamais vu:
Deja pense:
False memory:
 Deja entendu:
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Jamais vu:

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28
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a person’s recollection and belief by the patient of an event that did
not actually occur.
Jamais vu:
Deja pense:
False memory:
 Deja entendu:
A

False memory:

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29
Q 
exaggerated degree of retention and recall;
Eidetic Image:
Hypermnesia
Lethologica:
Blackout:
A

Hypermnesia

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visual memory of almost hallucinatory vividness.
Eidetic Image:
Hypermnesia
Lethologica:
Blackout:
A

Eidetic Image:

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temporary inability to remember a name or a proper noun.
Eidetic Image:
Hypermnesia
Lethologica:
Blackout:
A

Lethologica:

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32
Q 
amnesia experienced by alcoholics about behavior during drinking bouts; usually indicates that
reversible brain damage has occurred.
Eidetic Image:
Blackout: 
Hypermnesia
Lethologica:
A

Blackout:

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33
Q 
a defense or mechanism characterized by unconscious forgetting of unacceptable ideas or
impulses
Blackout: 
Screen memory
Repression:
A

Repression:

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a consciously tolerable memory covering for a painful memory.
Blackout:
Screen memory
Repression:

A

Screen memory

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35
Q 
new word created by a patient, often by combining syllables of other words, for idiosyncratic
psychological reasons.
Word Salad:
Neologism: 
Verbigeration:
 Perseveration:
A

Neologism:

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incoherent mixture of words and phrases.
Word Salad:
Neologism: 
Verbigeration:
 Perseveration:
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Word Salad:

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persisting response to a previous stimulus after a new stimulus has been presented.
Word Salad:
Neologism: 
Verbigeration:
 Perseveration:
A

Perseveration:

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meaningless repetition of specific words of phrases.
Word Salad:
Neologism: 
Verbigeration:
 Perseveration:
A

Verbigeration:

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39
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psychopathological repeating of words or phrases of one person by another.
Circumstantiality
Echolalia: 
 Incoherence
Tangentiality:
A

Echolalia:

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indirect speech that is delayed in reaching the point but eventually gets from original
point to desired goal.
Circumstantiality
Echolalia: 
 Incoherence
Tangentiality:
A

Circumstantiality

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inability to have goal-directed associations of thought; speaker never gets from desired point to desired goal.
Circumstantiality
Echolalia: 
 Incoherence
Tangentiality:
A

Tangentiality:

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thought that is generally not understandable
Circumstantiality
Echolalia: 
 Incoherence
Tangentiality:
A

Incoherence

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43
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answer that is not in harmony with the question asked.

Flight of ideas:
Irrelevant answer:
Loose associations:

A

Irrelevant answer:

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44
Q 
flow of thought in which ideas shift from one subject to another in a completely
unrelated way.
Flight of ideas: 
 Irrelevant answer:
 Loose associations:
A

Loose associations:

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rapid, continuous verbalizations or plays on words produce constant shifting from one idea to another, ideas tend to be connected.
Flight of ideas:
Irrelevant answer:
Loose associations:

A

Flight of ideas:

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46
Q 
association of words similar in sound but not in meaning; words have no logical
connection.
Blocking:
Glossolalia
Clang association
A

Clang association

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Q

expression of a revelatory message through unintelligible words.
Blocking:
Glossolalia
Clang association

A

Glossolalia

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abrupt interruption in train of thinking before a thought or idea is finished; thought deprivation.
Blocking:
Glossolalia
Clang association

A

Blocking:

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49
Q 
thought that gives little information because of vagueness, empty repetitions, obscure
phrases.
Blocking:
Glossolalia
Poverty of Content:
Clang association
A

Poverty of Content:

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50
Q 
includes persecutory delusion and delusion of reference, control and
grandeur, paranoid ideation.
Delusion of Poverty
Nihilistic delusion: 
 Somatic Delusion
 Paranoid Delusion:
A

Paranoid Delusion:

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51
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false belief involving functioning of the body.
Delusion of Poverty
Nihilistic delusion: 
 Somatic Delusion
 Paranoid Delusion:
A

Somatic Delusion

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52
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false belief that he or she is bereft or deprived of material possessions.
Delusion of Poverty
Nihilistic delusion: 
 Somatic Delusion
 Paranoid Delusion:
A

Delusion of Poverty

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53
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false feeling that the world is coming to an end.
Delusion of Poverty
Nihilistic delusion: 
 Somatic Delusion
 Paranoid Delusion:
A

Nihilistic delusion:

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unreasonable, sustained false belief, maintained less firmly than a delusion.
Systematized delusion: 
Bizarre delusions
 Delusion
Overvalued idea:
A

Overvalued idea:

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a false beliefs united by a single event or theme.
Systematized delusion: 
Bizarre delusions
 Delusion
Overvalued idea:
A

Systematized delusion:

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an absurd, totally implausible, strange false belief
Systematized delusion: 
Bizarre delusions
 Delusion
Overvalued idea:
A

Bizarre delusions

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57
Q 
false belief, based on incorrect inference about external reality, not consistent with patient’s
intelligence and cultural background.
Systematized delusion: 
Bizarre delusions
 Delusion
Overvalued idea:
A

Delusion

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Q 
false belief, based on incorrect inference about external reality, not consistent with patient’s
intelligence and cultural background.
Systematized delusion: 
Bizarre delusions
 Delusion
Overvalued idea:
A

Delusion

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59
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false belief that he or she is being harassed, cheated or persecuted.
.Delusion of Persecution:
 Thought Broadcasting:
Thought insertion:
• Delusion of Grandeur:
A

Delusion of Persecution:

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60
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exaggerated conception of his or her importance, power or identity
Delusion of Persecution:
 Thought Broadcasting:
Thought insertion:
• Delusion of Grandeur:
A

• Delusion of Grandeur:

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61
Q 
• delusion that a person’s thoughts can be heard by others, as though they
were being broadcast over the air.
Delusion of Persecution:
 Thought Broadcasting:
Thought insertion:
Delusion of Grandeur:
A

Thought Broadcasting:

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62
Q 
delusion that thoughts are being implanted in a persons mind by other
people or forces.
Delusion of Persecution:
 Thought Broadcasting:
Thought insertion:
Delusion of Grandeur:
A

Thought insertion:

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63
Q 
delusion that thoughts are being removed from a person’s mind by other people or forces.
Delusion of Persecution:
Thought withdrawal: 
Thought insertion:
Delusion of Grandeur:
A

Thought withdrawal:

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false belief that the behavior of others refers to himself or herself.
Delusion of Self- accusation:
Delusion of Reference: 
 Delusion of control:
Thought withdrawal:
A

• Delusion of Reference:

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65
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false feeling of remorse and guilt.
Delusion of Self- accusation:
Delusion of Reference: 
 Delusion of control:
Thought withdrawal:
A

Delusion of Self- accusation:

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66
Q 
false feeling that a person’s will, thoughts or feelings are being controlled by
external forces.
Delusion of Self- accusation:
Delusion of Reference: 
 Delusion of control:
Thought withdrawal:
A

Delusion of control:

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67
Q 
a delusion that a person’s thoughts are being controlled by other people or
forces.
Thought Control: 
 Noesis:
Cropolalia:
Unio Mystica
A

Thought Control:

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\: feeling of mystic unity with an infinite power
Thought Control: 
 Noesis:
Cropolalia:
Unio Mystica
A

Unio Mystica

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7. a revelation in which immense illumination occurs in association with a sense that a person has
been chosen to lead command.
Thought Control: 
 Noesis:
Cropolalia:
Unio Mystica
A

Noesis:

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70
Q 
compulsive utterance of obscene words.
Thought Control: 
 Noesis:
Cropolalia:
Unio Mystica
A

Cropolalia:

71
Q 
false belief that a person’s partner is being unfaithful.
Erotomania: 
Monomania:
Egomania: 
 Delusional Jealousy
A

Delusional Jealousy

72
Q 
delusional belief that someone is deeply in love with them.
Erotomania: 
Monomania:
Egomania: 
 Delusional Jealousy
A

Erotomania:

73
Q 
pathological self-preoccupation
Erotomania: 
Monomania:
Egomania: 
 Delusional Jealousy
74
Q 
preoccupation with a single object
Erotomania: 
Monomania:
Egomania: 
 Delusional Jealousy
A

Monomania:

75
Q

rapid speech that is difficult to interrupt

Dysarthria:
Cluttering:
Pressure of speech
Excessively loud or soft speech:

A

Pressure of speech

76
Q 
9. erratic and non-rhythmic speech.
Dysarthria:
Cluttering: 
Excessively loud or soft speech:
Stuttering
A

Cluttering:

77
Q 
8. : repetition of sounds or syllable leading to impaired speech.
Dysarthria:
Cluttering: 
Excessively loud or soft speech:
Stuttering
A

Stuttering

78
Q 
7.  loss of modulation or normal speech volume.
Dysarthria:
Cluttering: 
Excessively loud or soft speech:
Stuttering
A

Excessively loud or soft speech:

79
Q 
6.  difficulty in articulation
Dysarthria:
Cluttering: 
Excessively loud or soft speech:
Stuttering
A

Dysarthria:

80
Q

restriction of used speech; monosyllabic replies

Poverty of speech content:
Dysprody:
Nonspontaneous speech:
Poverty of speech:

A

Poverty of speech:

81
Q 
responses are given only when spoken to directly.
 Poverty of speech content: 
Dysprody:
Nonspontaneous speech:
Poverty of speech:
A

Nonspontaneous speech:

82
Q 
loss of normal speech melody
 Poverty of speech content: 
Dysprody:
Nonspontaneous speech:
Poverty of speech:
83
Q 
adequate speech but conveys little information due to vagueness or empty
phrases.
 Poverty of speech content: 
Dysprody:
Nonspontaneous speech:
Poverty of speech:
A

. Poverty of speech content:

84
Q

caused by a cognitive disorder where understanding remains but ability to speak is grossly
impaired.

Motor aphasia:
Sensory aphasia::
Alogia:
Nominal aphasia/ anomia/ amnestic aphasia

A

Motor aphasia:

85
Q
  1. organic loss of ability to comprehend the meaning of words.
    Sensory aphasia:
    Global aphasia:
    Alogia:
    Nominal aphasia/ anomia/ amnestic aphasia
A

Sensory aphasia:

86
Q

combination of grossly non-fluent aphasia and a severe fluent aphasia.
Sensory aphasia:
Global aphasia:
Alogia:
Nominal aphasia/ anomia/ amnestic aphasia

A

Global aphasia:

87
Q

inability to speak because of a mental deficiency or dementia
Sensory aphasia:
Cropopregia:
Alogia:
Nominal aphasia/ anomia/ amnestic aphasia

88
Q

involuntary use of vulgar or obscene language.
Sensory aphasia:
Cropopregia:
Alogia:
Nominal aphasia/ anomia/ amnestic aphasia

A

Cropopregia:

89
Q

difficulty in finding correct name for an object.
Sensory aphasia:
Cropopregia:
Alogia:
Nominal aphasia/ anomia/ amnestic aphasia

A

Nominal aphasia/ anomia/ amnestic aphasia

90
Q 
pathological imitation of movements of one person by another
Catatonic stupor:
Catatonic excitement:
catalepsy:
Echopraxia:
A

Echopraxia:

91
Q 
lack of physical movement, as in the extreme immobility of catatonic schizophrenia
 Akinesia: 
Catatonic posturing:
Catatonic rigidity: 
Cerea Flexibilitas (waxy flexibility)
92
Q

condition of a person who can be molded into a position
that is then maintained; when an examiner moves the person’s limb, the limb feels as if it were
made of wax.
Akinesia:
Catatonic posturing:
Catatonic rigidity:
Cerea Flexibilitas (waxy flexibility):

A

Cerea Flexibilitas (waxy flexibility):

93
Q 
voluntary assumption of an inappropriate or bizarre posture, generally
maintained for long periods.
 Akinesia: 
Catatonic posturing:
Catatonic rigidity: 
Cerea Flexibilitas (waxy flexibility):
A

Catatonic posturing:

94
Q 
voluntary assumption of a rigid posture, held against all efforts to be moved.
 Akinesia: 
Catatonic posturing:
Catatonic rigidity: 
Cerea Flexibilitas (waxy flexibility):
A

Catatonic rigidity:

95
Q 
a.  general term for an immobile position that is constantly maintained.
Catatonic stupor:
Catatonic excitement:
catalepsy:
Echopraxia:
A

catalepsy:

96
Q 
agitated, purposeless motor activity, uninfluenced by motor stimuli
Catatonic stupor:
Catatonic excitement:
catalepsy:
Echopraxia:
A

Catatonic excitement:

97
Q 
markedly slowed motor activity often to a point of immobility and seeming
unawareness of surroundings
Catatonic stupor:
Catatonic excitement:
catalepsy:
Echopraxia:
A

Catatonic stupor:

98
Q 
motiveless resistance to all attempts to be moved to all instructions.
Mutism:
Negativism:
Command Automatism:
Cataplexy:
A

Negativism:

99
Q 
pathological coordination
Polyphagia
 Ataxia: 
Tic
Compulsion:
A

Polyphagia

100
Q 
failure of muscle coordination
Polyphagia
 Ataxia: 
Tic
Compulsion:
101
Q 
uncontrollable impulse to perform an act repetitively
Polyphagia
 Ataxia: 
Tic
Compulsion:
A

Compulsion:

102
Q 
involuntary, spasmodic motor movement
Polyphagia
 Ataxia: 
Tic
Compulsion:
103
Q

temporary loss of muscle tone and weakness precipitated by a variety of emotional states.

Mutism:
Command Automatism:
Cataplexy:
psychomotor agitation

A

Cataplexy:

104
Q 
automatic following of suggestions
Mutism:
Command Automatism:
Cataplexy:
psychomotor agitation
A

Command Automatism:

105
Q 
voiceless without structural abnormalities
 Mutism:
Command Automatism:
Cataplexy:
psychomotor agitation
106
Q 
excessive motor and cognitive overactivity usually nonproductive and in
response to inner tension
Mutism:
Command Automatism:
Cataplexy:
psychomotor agitation
A

psychomotor agitation

107
Q 
restless; aggressive, destructive activity, often associated with some underlying brain pathology
Anergia:
Hyperactivity/ hyperkinesias
Abulia: 
 Astasia-abasia:
A

Hyperactivity/ hyperkinesias

108
Q 
reduced impulse to act and think, associated with indifference about consequences of action
Anergia:
Hyperactivity/ hyperkinesias
Abulia: 
 Astasia-abasia:
109
Q 
lack of energy
Anergia:
Hyperactivity/ hyperkinesias
Abulia: 
 Astasia-abasia:
110
Q 
the inability to stand or walk in a normal manner.
Anergia:
Hyperactivity/ hyperkinesias
Abulia: 
Astasia-abasia:
A

Astasia-abasia:

111
Q 
eating of filth and feces
Twirling: 
 Dyskinesia
Coprophagia:
Astasia-abasia:
A

Coprophagia:

112
Q 
difficulty in performing voluntary movements
Twirling: 
 Dyskinesia
Coprophagia:
Astasia-abasia:
A

Dyskinesia

113
Q 
a sign present in autistic children who continually rotate in the direction in which their head are turned.
Twirling: 
 Dyskinesia
Coprophagia:
Astasia-abasia:
114
Q 
false perception occurring while falling asleep
Gustatory Hallucination:
Olfactory Hallucination: 
Visual Hallucination:
Hypnagogic Hallucination:
A

Hypnagogic Hallucination:

115
Q 
•  false perception of taste
Gustatory Hallucination:
Olfactory Hallucination: 
Visual Hallucination:
Hypnagogic Hallucination:
A

Gustatory Hallucination:

116
Q 
• false perception of smell
Gustatory Hallucination:
Olfactory Hallucination: 
Visual Hallucination:
Hypnagogic Hallucination:
A

Olfactory Hallucination:

117
Q 
•  false perception involving sight
Gustatory Hallucination:
Olfactory Hallucination: 
Visual Hallucination:
Hypnagogic Hallucination:
A

Visual Hallucination:

118
Q 
• false perception of smell
Gustatory Hallucination:
Olfactory Hallucination: 
Visual Hallucination:
Hypnagogic Hallucination:
A

Olfactory Hallucination:

119
Q 
• false perception occurring while awakening from sleep.
Gustatory Hallucination:
Hypnopompic Hallucination: 
Tactile (Haptic) Hallucination
Hypnagogic Hallucination
A

Hypnopompic Hallucination:

120
Q 
•  false perception of touch or surface sensation
Gustatory Hallucination:
Hypnopompic Hallucination: 
Tactile (Haptic) Hallucination
Hypnagogic Hallucination
A

Tactile (Haptic) Hallucination:

121
Q 
•  false perception of sound
Macrosia: 
 Micropsia: 
Asteriognosia
Auditory Hallucination:
A

Auditory Hallucination:

122
Q 
objects are seen smaller than they are
Macrosia: 
 Micropsia: 
Asteriognosia
Auditory Hallucination:
A

Micropsia:

123
Q 
objects are seen larger than they are
Macrosia: 
 Micropsia: 
Asteriognosia
Auditory Hallucination:
124
Q 
inability to recognize objects by touch
Macrosia: 
 Micropsia: 
Asteriognosia
Auditory Hallucination:
A

Asteriognosia

125
Q 
sensation or hallucination caused by another sensation
Somatopagnosia:
 Synesthesia: 
Prosopagnosia
Visual Agnosia:
A

Synesthesia:

126
Q

perceptual abnormality associated with hallucinogenic drugs in which moving
objects are seen as a series of discrete and discontinuous images.
Somatopagnosia:
Trailing Phenomenon:
Prosopagnosia
Visual Agnosia:

A

Trailing Phenomenon:

127
Q 
inability to recognize objects or persons
Somatopagnosia:
 Synesthesia: 
Prosopagnosia
Visual Agnosia:
A

• Visual Agnosia:

128
Q 
inability to recognize faces
Somatopagnosia:
 Synesthesia: 
Prosopagnosia
Visual Agnosia:
A

Prosopagnosia:

129
Q 
•  inability to recognize a body part as his own.
Somatopagnosia:
 Synesthesia: 
Prosopagnosia
Visual Agnosia:
A

Somatopagnosia:

130
Q 
2.: an inability to recognized and interpret the significance of sensory impressions
Anosognosia:
Prosopagnosia
 Agnosia
Visual Agnosia:
131
Q 
inability to recognize a neurological deficit as occurring to himself.
Anosognosia:
Prosopagnosia
 Agnosia
Visual Agnosia:
A

Anosognosia:

132
Q 
a person’s expression of feelings without restraint; frequently with an overestimation of
their significance or importance.
Irritable mood: 
Euthymic mood:
Dysphoric mood
Expansive mood:
A

Expansive mood:

133
Q 
observed expression of emotion, possibly inconsistent with patient’s description of emotion. 
Prosopagnosia
 Agnosia
Affect:
Visual Agnosia:
134
Q 
an unpleasant mood.
Irritable mood: 
Euthymic mood:
Dysphoric mood
Expansive mood:
A

Dysphoric mood

135
Q 
person is easily annoyed and provoked to anger.
Irritable mood: 
Euthymic mood:
Dysphoric mood
Expansive mood:
A

Irritable mood:

136
Q 
person is easily annoyed and provoked to anger.
Irritable mood: 
Euthymic mood:
Dysphoric mood
Expansive mood:
A

Irritable mood:

137
Q 
condition in which the emotional tone is in harmony with the accompanying idea, thought, or speech
Inappropriate affect: 
Labile affect:
Appropriate affect:
Blunted affect:
A

Appropriate affect:

138
Q 
a pervasive and sustained emotion, subjectively experienced and reported by a patient and observed by others
Restricted or constricted affect:
Labile affect:
Blunted affect:
Mood:
139
Q 
rapid and abrupt changes in emotional feeling tone, unrelated to external stimuli.
Restricted or constricted affect:
Labile affect:
Blunted affect:
Mood:
A

Labile affect:

140
Q 
reduction in intensity of feeling tone less severe than blunted affect but clearly reduced.
Restricted or constricted affect:
Labile affect:
Blunted affect:
Mood:
A

Restricted or constricted affect:

141
Q 
disturbance in affect manifested by a severe reduction in the intensity of externalized
feeling tone.
Restricted or constricted affect:
Labile affect:
Blunted affect:
Mood:
A

Blunted affect:

142
Q

disharmony between the emotional feeling tone and the idea, thought, or speech accompanying it.
Inappropriate affect:
Labile affect:
Blunted affect:

A

Inappropriate affect:

143
Q

disharmony between the emotional feeling tone and the idea, thought, or speech accompanying it.
Inappropriate affect:
Labile affect:
Blunted affect:

A

Inappropriate affect:

144
Q 
oscillations between euphoria and depression or anxiety.
Grief or mourning: 
Mood swings (labile mood): 
Suicidal ideation:
Alexithymia
A

Mood swings (labile mood):

145
Q 
thoughts or act of taking one’s own life.
Anhedonia:
Grief or mourning: 
 Suicidal ideation:
Alexithymia
A

Suicidal ideation:

146
Q 
a person’s inability or difficulty in describing or being aware of emotions or mood.
Anhedonia:
Grief or mourning: 
 Suicidal ideation:
Alexithymia
A

Alexithymia

147
Q 
sadness appropriate to a real loss.
Anhedonia:
Grief or mourning: 
 Suicidal ideation:
Alexithymia
A

Grief or mourning:

148
Q 
loss of interest in and withdrawal from all regular activities, often associated with depression.
 Anhedonia:
Grief or mourning: 
 Suicidal ideation:
Alexithymia
A

Anhedonia:

149
Q 
air of confidence and enjoyment; a mood more cheerful than usual.
 Ecstasy:
Depression: 
 Elevated mood:
Euphoria:
A

Elevated mood:

150
Q 
intense elations with feelings of grandeur.
 Ecstasy:
Depression: 
 Elevated mood:
Euphoria:
151
Q 
feeling of intense rapture.
 Ecstasy:
Depression: 
 Elevated mood:
Euphoria:
152
Q 
psychopathological feeling of sadness.
Ecstasy:
Depression: 
 Elevated mood:
Euphoria:
A

Depression:

153
Q 
feeling of apprehension caused by anticipation of danger.
Panic: 
 Agitation
 Fear:
Anxiety:
154
Q 
acute, episodic, intense attack of anxiety associated with overwhelming feelings of dread and
autonomic discharge.
 Panic: 
 Agitation
 Fear:
Tension:
155
Q 
increased and unpleasant motor and psychological activity.
Panic: 
 Agitation
 Fear:
Tension:
156
Q 
severe anxiety associated with motor restlessness.
Panic: 
 Agitation
 Fear:
Tension:
157
Q 
anxiety caused by consciously recognized and realistic danger.
Panic: 
 Agitation
 Fear:
Tension:
158
Q 
pervasive, unfocused fear not attached to any idea.
Panic: 
Free-floating anxiety:
 Fear:
Tension:
A

Free-floating anxiety:

159
Q 
dulled emotional tone associated with detachment or indifference.
Abreaction: 
Ambivalence:
Apathy
Melancholia:
160
Q 
coexistence of two opposing impulses toward the same thing in the same person at the same
time.
Abreaction: 
Ambivalence:
 Guilt: 
Melancholia:
A

Ambivalence:

161
Q 
severe depressive state
Abreaction: 
Ambivalence:
 Guilt: 
Melancholia:
A

Melancholia:

162
Q 
emotion secondary to doing what is perceived as wrong
Abreaction: 
Ambivalence:
 Guilt: 
Melancholia
163
Q 
emotional release or discharge after recalling a painful experience
Abreaction: 
Ambivalence:
 Guilt: 
Melancholia
A

Abreaction:

164
Q 
loss of or decrease in appetite
Insomnia:
 Hyperphagia:
Anorexia:
Hypersomnia:
165
Q 
excessive sleeping
Insomnia:
 Hyperphagia:
Anorexia:
Hypersomnia:
A

Hypersomnia:

166
Q 
lack of or diminished ability to sleep
Insomnia:
 Hyperphagia:
Anorexia:
Hypersomnia:
167
Q 
increase in appetite and intake of food.
Diurnal Variation
 Hyperphagia:
Anorexia:
Hypersomnia:
A

Hyperphagia:

168
Q 
mood is regularly worst in the morning, immediately after awakening, and improves as the day progresses.
Diurnal Variation
 Constipation: 
Diminished Libido:
Fatigue:
A

Diurnal Variation

169
Q 
feeling of weariness, sleepiness, or irritability following a period of mental or bodily activity.
Diurnal Variation
 Constipation: 
Diminished Libido:
Fatigue:
170
Q 
inability to defecate or difficulty in defecating.
Diurnal Variation
 Constipation: 
Diminished Libido:
Fatigue:
A

Constipation:

171
Q 
decreased sexual interest, drive, and performance.
Diurnal Variation
 Constipation: 
Diminished Libido:
Fatigue:
A

Diminished Libido:

172
Q 
craving and eating of nonfood substances, such as paint and clay.
Fatigue:
 Pseudocyesis:
Pica
Bulimia:
173
Q 
insatiable hunger and voracious eating.
Fatigue:
 Pseudocyesis:
Pica
Bulimia:
174
Q

rare condition in which a patient has the signs and symptoms of pregnancy, such as
abdominal distention, breast enlargement, cessation of menses and morning sickness.
Fatigue:
Pseudocyesis:
Pica
Bulimia:

A

Pseudocyesis:

ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY (3 decks)

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