AB PSYCH PRACTICE TEST 1 Flashcards
disturbance of orientation in time, place, or person. Delirium: Clouding of consciousness Disorientation: Coma:
Disorientation:
incomplete clear-mindedness with disturbances in perception and
attitudes.
Delirium:
Clouding of consciousness
Disorientation:
Coma:
Clouding of consciousness
lack of reaction to and unawareness of surroundings. Delirium: Stupor Disorientation: Coma:
Stupor
bewildered, restless, confused, disoriented reaction associated with fear and hallucinations. Delirium: Clouding of consciousness Disorientation: Coma:
Delirium:
profound degree of unconsciousness Coma vigil Clouding of consciousness Disorientation: Coma:
Coma:
\: 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:
Coma vigil
disturbed consciousness with hallucinations. Coma vigil Twilight state: Disorientation: Coma:
Twilight state:
abnormal drowsiness. Coma vigil Twilight state: Somnolence: Confusion:
Somnolence:
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:
Confusion:
often used as a synonym for complex partial seizure of psychomotor epilepsy. Coma vigil Dreamlike state: Somnolence: Confusion:
Dreamlike state
state of impaired awareness associated with a desire or inclination to sleep.
Selective inattention
Somnolence:
Hypervigilance:
Drowsiness
. Drowsiness
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:
Sundowning
inability to concentrate attention; state in which attention is drawn to
unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli.
Distractibility:
Sundowning
Hypervigilance:
Selective inattention
Distractibility:
blocking out only those that generate anxiety. Distractibility: Trance Hypervigilance: Selective inattention
Selective inattention
excessive attention and focus on all internal and external stimuli, usually
secondary to delusional or paranoid states.
Distractibility:
Trance
Hypervigilance:
Selective inattention
Hypervigilance:
: focused attention and altered consciousness, usually seen in hypnosis, dissociative
disorders, and ecstatic religious experiences.
Distractibility:
Trance
Hypervigilance:
Selective inattention
Trance
communicated emotional illness between two (or three) persons. Hypnosis Fausse reconnaissance: Amnesia: Folie a deux (or folie a trios):
Folie a deux (or folie a trios):
artificially induced modification of consciousness characterized by a heightened suggestibility. Hypnosis Fausse reconnaissance: Amnesia: Paramnesia: .
Hypnosis:
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): .
Amnesia:
falsification of memory by distortion of recall. Confabulation: Fausse reconnaissance: Retrospective falsification Paramnesia:
Paramnesia:
false recognition. Confabulation: Fausse reconnaissance: Retrospective falsification Paramnesia:
Fausse reconnaissance:
memory becomes unintentionally (unconsciously) distorted by being filtered through a person’s present emotional, cognitive, and experiential state. Confabulation: Fausse reconnaissance: Retrospective falsification Paramnesia:
Retrospective falsification
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:
Confabulation:
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:
Déjà vu
illusion of auditory recognition.
Jamais vu:
Deja pense:
Deja entendu:
Deja entendu:
illusion that a new thought is recognized as a thought previously felt or expressed. Jamais vu: Deja pense: False memory: Deja entendu:
Deja pense:
false feeling of unfamiliarity with a real situation that a person has experienced. Jamais vu: Deja pense: False memory: Deja entendu:
Jamais vu:
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:
False memory:
exaggerated degree of retention and recall; Eidetic Image: Hypermnesia Lethologica: Blackout:
Hypermnesia
visual memory of almost hallucinatory vividness. Eidetic Image: Hypermnesia Lethologica: Blackout:
Eidetic Image:
temporary inability to remember a name or a proper noun. Eidetic Image: Hypermnesia Lethologica: Blackout:
Lethologica:
amnesia experienced by alcoholics about behavior during drinking bouts; usually indicates that reversible brain damage has occurred. Eidetic Image: Blackout: Hypermnesia Lethologica:
Blackout:
a defense or mechanism characterized by unconscious forgetting of unacceptable ideas or impulses Blackout: Screen memory Repression:
Repression:
a consciously tolerable memory covering for a painful memory.
Blackout:
Screen memory
Repression:
Screen memory
new word created by a patient, often by combining syllables of other words, for idiosyncratic psychological reasons. Word Salad: Neologism: Verbigeration: Perseveration:
Neologism:
incoherent mixture of words and phrases. Word Salad: Neologism: Verbigeration: Perseveration:
Word Salad:
persisting response to a previous stimulus after a new stimulus has been presented. Word Salad: Neologism: Verbigeration: Perseveration:
Perseveration:
meaningless repetition of specific words of phrases. Word Salad: Neologism: Verbigeration: Perseveration:
Verbigeration:
psychopathological repeating of words or phrases of one person by another. Circumstantiality Echolalia: Incoherence Tangentiality:
Echolalia:
indirect speech that is delayed in reaching the point but eventually gets from original point to desired goal. Circumstantiality Echolalia: Incoherence Tangentiality:
Circumstantiality
inability to have goal-directed associations of thought; speaker never gets from desired point to desired goal. Circumstantiality Echolalia: Incoherence Tangentiality:
Tangentiality:
thought that is generally not understandable Circumstantiality Echolalia: Incoherence Tangentiality:
Incoherence
answer that is not in harmony with the question asked.
Flight of ideas:
Irrelevant answer:
Loose associations:
Irrelevant answer:
flow of thought in which ideas shift from one subject to another in a completely unrelated way. Flight of ideas: Irrelevant answer: Loose associations:
Loose associations:
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:
Flight of ideas:
association of words similar in sound but not in meaning; words have no logical connection. Blocking: Glossolalia Clang association
Clang association
expression of a revelatory message through unintelligible words.
Blocking:
Glossolalia
Clang association
Glossolalia
abrupt interruption in train of thinking before a thought or idea is finished; thought deprivation.
Blocking:
Glossolalia
Clang association
Blocking:
thought that gives little information because of vagueness, empty repetitions, obscure phrases. Blocking: Glossolalia Poverty of Content: Clang association
Poverty of Content:
includes persecutory delusion and delusion of reference, control and grandeur, paranoid ideation. Delusion of Poverty Nihilistic delusion: Somatic Delusion Paranoid Delusion:
Paranoid Delusion:
false belief involving functioning of the body. Delusion of Poverty Nihilistic delusion: Somatic Delusion Paranoid Delusion:
Somatic Delusion
false belief that he or she is bereft or deprived of material possessions. Delusion of Poverty Nihilistic delusion: Somatic Delusion Paranoid Delusion:
Delusion of Poverty
false feeling that the world is coming to an end. Delusion of Poverty Nihilistic delusion: Somatic Delusion Paranoid Delusion:
Nihilistic delusion:
unreasonable, sustained false belief, maintained less firmly than a delusion. Systematized delusion: Bizarre delusions Delusion Overvalued idea:
Overvalued idea:
a false beliefs united by a single event or theme. Systematized delusion: Bizarre delusions Delusion Overvalued idea:
Systematized delusion:
an absurd, totally implausible, strange false belief Systematized delusion: Bizarre delusions Delusion Overvalued idea:
Bizarre delusions
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:
Delusion
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:
Delusion
false belief that he or she is being harassed, cheated or persecuted. .Delusion of Persecution: Thought Broadcasting: Thought insertion: • Delusion of Grandeur:
Delusion of Persecution:
:
exaggerated conception of his or her importance, power or identity Delusion of Persecution: Thought Broadcasting: Thought insertion: • Delusion of Grandeur:
• Delusion of Grandeur:
• 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:
Thought Broadcasting:
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:
Thought insertion:
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:
Thought withdrawal:
false belief that the behavior of others refers to himself or herself. Delusion of Self- accusation: Delusion of Reference: Delusion of control: Thought withdrawal:
• Delusion of Reference:
false feeling of remorse and guilt. Delusion of Self- accusation: Delusion of Reference: Delusion of control: Thought withdrawal:
Delusion of Self- accusation:
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:
Delusion of control:
a delusion that a person’s thoughts are being controlled by other people or forces. Thought Control: Noesis: Cropolalia: Unio Mystica
Thought Control:
\: feeling of mystic unity with an infinite power Thought Control: Noesis: Cropolalia: Unio Mystica
Unio Mystica
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
Noesis: