Feb232018 Flashcards
A movement disorder characterized by a feeling of inner restlessness and a compelling need to be in constant motion is what?
Akathisia
Pathological imitation of movements of one person by another
Echopraxia
Automatic performance of an act or acts generally representing unconscious symbolic activity
automatisms
inabilitity to carry out specific tasks
Apraxia
lack of physical movements
akinesia
Motiveless resistance to all attempts to be moved: or to all instructions
Negativism
What is articulation difficulty?
Dysarthria
Loss of normal speech melody?
Dysprosody
Erratic and dysrhythmic speech: rapid and jerky spurts?
Cluttering
What is normal pleasant mood?
Euthymic
What is an unpleasant mood?
Dysphoric
What is Alexithymia?
a person’s inability to or difficulty in describing or being aware of emotions or mood
Loss of interest in and withdrawal from all pleasurable topics?
Anhedonia
What is feeling of intense rapture?
Ectasy
What is intense elation with feeling of grandeur?
Euphoria
What is severe reduction in the intensity of external tone of feeling?
Blunted affect
What is rapid and abrupt chances in emotional tone that is unrelated to external stimuli?
Labile affect
What should be included in a person’s community of thought?
goal directed and person’s ideas are logical
What is overinclusion of trivial or irrelevant details that imped the sense of getting to the point?
Circumstantiality
What are “thoughts associated by the sound of words rather than by their meaning?”
Clang associations
What is a breakdown in both the logical connections between ideas and the overall sense of logical thought?
Derailment
What is a succession of multiple associations so that thoughts seem to move abruptly from idea to idea?
Flight of ideas
What is the invention of new words or pharases or the use of conventional words in idiosyncratic ways?
Neologism
What is repetition out of context of words: pharases: or ideas?
Perservation
What is the patient answers the question, but really does not answer the question?
Tangentiality
What is a sudden disruption of thought or a break in the flow of ideas?
Thought blocking
What is exaggerated sense of one’s own importance: power or significance?
Grandiose
What is Gustatory Hallucinations?
Gustatory: what is sensory impression with no external stimulus
When falling asleeping: what are hallucinations that can happen?
Hypnogogic
When awaking up: what are hallucinations that can happen?
Hypnopompic
What is the loss of reality of the self?
Depersonalization
What is “the person feels that environment has changed and that external reality is no longer familiar?”
Derealization
What is misperception or misinterpretation of real simuli?
Illusions
What is insight is present; admits to an illness: agrees: need help?
True Emotional Insight
What is the ability to handle social situations and understand and adhere to reasonable social norms?
Judgment
What is ability to assess: discern: and choose among various options in a situation? (respect to judgement)
Critical Judgement
What is reflex performance of an action?
Automatic judgment
What is diminished ability to understand a sitaution correct and to act appropriately?
Impaired Judgement
What is consciouness (incomplete clear mindedness with disturbances in perception and attitudes)?
Clouded
What type of affect is less severely blunted, but clearly reduced?
Constricted Affect
What is disharmony between between emotional feeling , tone, idea, thought, and speech?
Abnormal affect
What is cultural modification of an individual, group of adapting to or borrowing traits from another culture; a merging of cultures as a result of prolonged contact?
Acculturation
What is psychomotor retardation?
signify depression or negative symptoms of schizophrenia
What is psychomotor agitation?
May occur with anxiety or mania, motor symptoms may follow patient’s illness
Illusions: misperception or misinterpretation of real stimuli (something is larger than it really is)?
Macropsia
_________ are fixed, false beliefs that are not in accordance with external reality. These false beliefs are firmly held despite what constitutes obvious proof. This delusional belief is not part of a culturally accepted belief.
delusions
What is a person who experiences obsessions, crecognize that the intrusiveness and unwated nature of their recurrent and persisten thoughts, is not normal unlike a patient with delusions?
Obsessions
What is poverty of speech?
What is poverty of content?
very little speech
vague content but of adequate amount
What is a person does not have the ability or difficulty describing or being aware of emotions or mood, schizophrenia?
Alexithymia
What is similing when a child dies or a promotion with sadness or anger?
Inappropriate affect
What are an actual external stimulus present in reality, which is misperceived or misinterpreted?
Illusions
What is the patient’s capacity to understand that there is a problem, to show awareness that they need treatment?
Insight
What is the feeling of intense rapture?
What is intense elation with feelings of grandeur?
Ectasy
Euphoria
What are feelings of joy, triumph, intense self-satisfaction, or optimism?
Elation
