Chapter 10: Psychiatric & Cognition Flashcards
Stereotypy
Repetition of fixed patterns of movement and speech (echolalia)
Akathisia
State of restlessness characterized by urgent need for movement, usually side effect of meds
Circumstantiality
Speech that is delayed in reaching the point and contains excessive or irrelevant details
Tangentiality
Abrupt changing of focus to a loosely associated topic
Flight of Ideas
rapid shifts in thoughts from one to another
Thought blocking
interruption of a thought process before it is finished
Loosening of Association
disorder of the logical progression of thoughts where seemingly unrelated and unconnected ideas shift from one to another
Nominal aphasia
Inability to name objects
Illusions
misperceptions or mininterpretations of real sensory events
Agnosia
Inability to understand and interpret the significance of sensory input
Recent memory
Recall events within the past few days
Recent past memory
Recall events of the past few months
Remote memory
Recall events of the distant past, aka long-term memory
Procedural Memory
Automatic sequence of behavior such as conditioned responses
Declarative Memory
Consciously learned facts, such as school subjects
Semantic Memory
Knowing the meaning of words and the ability to classify information. Includes things that are common knowledge, such as the names of colors, the sounds of letters, the capitals of countries and other basic facts acquired over a lifetime.
Episodic Memory
Knowledge of one’s personal experiences
Prospective Memory
Remembering to carry out future actions.
DSM-IV Axis I
Clinical disorders
Axis II
Personality disorders & “mental retardation”
Axis III
General medical conditions
Axis IV
Psychosocial & environmental problems