Definitions Flashcards
What is dysarthria
Problem with articulation of speech.
What is aphasia
Brain damage in a place where language resides. Fluent= sensory, can produce language but cannot understand.
Nonfluent= motor, cannot produce language but can understand.
What is apraxia
Cannot carry out skilled movement
What is prosody
Emotional tone in the voice.
Name the different forms of thought
Tangentiality- answer questions off the point.
Circumstantiality- answer in round about way
Flight of idea- speak rapidly
Derailment- beginning if sentence makes sense but end does not
Perseverance- patient persevere with one answer For every question.
Loosening of association- completely does not make sense
Describe what a delusion is and the characterization of delusions.
A delusion is a belief.
Delusions can be either simple or complex( full of detail). The theme can be bizarre or non bizarre. and be of religiosity, grandiosity, persecutory, jealousy or erotic.
What is a hallucination and Name the type of hallucinations?
A hallucination is a false sensory perception in absence of a stimulus. Visual, auditory, olfactory, gustatory (taste), tactile.
What is an illusion
It is a misconception of a real stimulus.
Define Depersonalization and Derealization
Depersonalization- sense that you are not real
Derealization- sense that your environment is not real.
What is episodic memory?
Episodic memory is memory of the moment.
Define psychogenic fugue.
Psychogenic fugue is reversible amnesia of personal identity and one tends to impulsively wonder. One becomes confused about who they are and creates new identities.
