Cognition Flashcards
Flashbacks
Vivid, detailed and long lasting memories associated with intense emotion
Intrusive recollaections
Intrusive memories of experiences without emotional familiarity of flashbacks
Dissociative amnesia
Sudden amnesia DT extreme trauma -personal identity
Fugue/wandering state
Associate with dissociative amnesia- travels to another town or country and is often found wondering and lost
Confabulation
Falsification of memory occurring in clear consciousness in association with organic pathology ie. filling in the gaps
Pseudologia fantastica
Fluent plausible lying without organic brain pathology
Munchausens syndrome
Pathological lying in which the patient presents to the hospital with bogus illness’s
Deja vu
A new thought/experience is recognised as having previously occurred
Jamais vu
Knowledge that an event has been experienced before but with no associated feelings of familiarity