Behaviour

Question 1

Types of behaviors

Answer 1

-hyperactivity
-hypoactivity
-repetitive activities
- negativism
-automatic obedience
-impulsiveness

Question 2

Psychomotor agitations

Answer 2

It is a form of hyperactivity characterised by excessive motor and cognitive over activity, usually non- productive and is associated with a feeling of inner turmoil.

Question 3

Excitement

Answer 3

It is a severe form of hyperactivity , excessive purposeless motor activity and the patient may destruct himself or others.

Question 4

Restlessness

Answer 4

It is a form of hyper activity

Subjective feeling of uneasiness, tension, and inability to sit still.
- It appears in form of:
- Pacing.
- Rooming back and front on foot.
- Crossing and uncrossing legs frequently.
- Inability to relax.

Question 5

Psychomotor retardation (psychomotor impairment)

Answer 5

• It involves slowdown in thought and motor movement.
• Slow and difficult motor and cognitive activities that in the extremes can entail complete inactivity.

Question 6

Catatonic Posturing (catalepsy)

Answer 6

Voluntary assumption of an inappropriate or bizarre posture the patient initiates positions by himself.
- Generally maintained for long periods of time.
- The absence of fatigue in such cases is remarkable.

Question 7

Stereotype

Answer 7

A monotonous repetition of certain movement or speech without purpose.
In movement: Touching the nose or pacing up and down the room.
In speech: Some words are repeated .
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Question 8

Mannerism

Answer 8

⮚A repeated habitual involuntary movement.
⮚Which is not monotonous and is keeping with the personality character.
⮚Paranoid patient salutes repeatedly in a grandiose manner.

Question 9

Preservation (repetition)

Answer 9

⮚Involuntary repetition of the same recent thought, phrase, or motor response.
⮚A patient, who was eating, continues to use the spoon as if eating even after the plate is empty.

Question 10

Waxy flexibility

Answer 10

⮚A condition in which a patient’s limbs retain any position into which they are manipulated by another person.
⮚When the examiner moves the person’s limb, he feels as if it was made of wax.
⮚Occurs especially in catatonic schizophrenia

Question 11

Echopraxia

Answer 11

⮚Pathological imitation of movements of one person by another.
⮚In schizophrenia (especially the catatonic form).

Question 12

Negativism

Answer 12

⮚Verbal or nonverbal opposition or resistance to outside suggestions and advice or even doing the opposite.
⮚Motor: When the patient was asked to look up, he looked down.
⮚Speech: When he was asked a question, he didn’t answer.
⮚Visceral: Retention of saliva, urine or faeces.

Question 13

Automatic obedience

Answer 13

⮚Strict obedience of command without critical judgment.
⮚The person may respond to an inner voice, as in schizophrenia.
⮚Or to another person’s command, as in hypnosis.

Question 14

Impulsiveness

Answer 14

The performance of an unconscious wish, action that is sudden, abrupt, unplanned and directed toward immediate gratification.