Intro to Behavioral Science

Question 1

What is Echopraxia?

Answer 1

pathological imitation of movements of one person by another

Question 2

What is Catalepsy?

Answer 2

general term for an immobile position that is constantly maintained

Question 3

What is Catatonic Stupor?

Answer 3

markedly slowed motor activity, often to a point of immobility and seeming unawareness of surroundings

Question 4

What is Waxy Flexibility?

Answer 4

condition of a person who can be molded into a position that is then maintained; when the examiner moves the person’s limb, the limb feels that it is made of wax

Question 5

What is Cataplexy?

Answer 5

temporary loss of muscle tone and weakness precipitated by a variety of emotional states

Question 6

What is Stereotypy?

Answer 6

repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech

Question 7

What is Psychomotor agitation?

Answer 7

excessive motor and cognitive over activity, usually nonproductive and in response to internal tension

Question 8

What is akathisia?

Answer 8

• subjective feeling of muscular tension secondary to antipsychotic or other medication, which can cause restlessness, pacing, repeated sitting and standing;
• can be mistaken for agitation

Question 9

What is Dyskinesia?

Answer 9

difficulty in performing voluntary movements, as in extrapyramidal disorders

Question 10

What is bradykinesia?

Answer 10

-slowness of motor activity with a decrease in normal spontaneous movement

Question 11

What is chorea?

Answer 11

random and involuntary quick, jerky, purposeless movements

Question 12

What is dystonia?

Answer 12

• slow, sustained contractions of the trunk or limbs;

- seen in medication induced dystonia

Question 13

What is a labile mood?

Answer 13

• mood swings

- oscillations between euphoria, depression, or anxiety

Question 14

What is Alexithymia?

Answer 14

-a person’s difficulty in describing or being aware of emotions or mood

Question 15

What is appropriate affect?

Answer 15

• condition in which the emotional tone is in harmony with the accompanying idea, thought, or speech;
• also further described as broad or full affect in which a full range of emotions is appropriately expressed

Question 16

What is an inappropriate affect?

Answer 16

disharmony between the emotional feeling tone and the idea, thought, or speech accompanying it

Question 17

What is a blunted affect?

Answer 17

disturbance in affect manifested by a severe reduction in the intensity or externalized feeling tone

Question 18

What is a restricted or constricted affect?

Answer 18

reduction in the intensity of externalized feeling tone

Question 19

What is a flat affect?

Answer 19

absence or near absence of any signs of affective expression; voice monotonous, face immobile

Question 20

What is pressured speech?

Answer 20

rapid speech that is increased in amount and difficult to interrupt

Question 21

What is a hallucination?

Answer 21

• false sensory perception not associated with real external stimuli;
• there may or may not be a delusional interpretation of the hallucinatory experience

Question 22

What is a mood congruent hallucination

Answer 22

• hallucination in which the content is consistent with either a manic or depressed mood;
  e. g. the manic patient would hear voices saying the patient is of inflated worth, power, and knowledge

Question 23

What is a mood in-congruent hallucination?

Answer 23

hallucination in which the content is not consistent with either a depressed or manic mood

Question 24

What is a command hallucination?

Answer 24

false perception of orders that a person may feel obliged to obey or unable to resist (often dangerous)

Question 25

What is an illusion?

Answer 25

misperception or misinterpretation of real external sensory stimuli

Question 26

What is dissociation?

Answer 26

defense mechanism involving the segregation of any group of mental or behavioral processes from the rest of the person’s psychic activity

Question 27

What is a thought process?

Answer 27

the flow of one idea to another in a logical process

Question 28

What is circumstantiality?

Answer 28

• indirect speech that is delayed in reaching the point but eventually gets from the original point to the desired goal;
• characterized by an over inclusion of details and parenthetical remarks

Question 29

What is tangentiality?

Answer 29

• inability to have goal directed associations of thought;

- speaker never gets from desired point to desired goal

Question 30

What is perseveration?

Answer 30

• persisting response to a previous stimulus after a new stimulus has been presented;
• often associated with cognitive disorders

Question 31

What is loosening of associations?

Answer 31

• flow of thought in which ideas shift from one subject to another in a completely unrelated way;
• when severe, speech may be incoherent

Question 32

What is a flight of ideas?

Answer 32

• rapid, continuous verbalizations or plays on words produce constant shifting from one idea to another;
• ideas tend to be connected but too fast for the listener to comprehend

Question 33

What is thought content?

Answer 33

-the reality drawn conclusions arising in thoughts

Question 34

What is a delusion?

Answer 34

a fixed false belief, based on incorrect inference about external reality, not consistent with the patient’s intelligence and cultural background, cannot be corrected by reasoning.

Question 35

What is an obsession?

Answer 35

pathological persistence of an irresistible thought or feeling that cannot be eliminated from consciousness by logical effort, associated with anxiety

Question 36

What is a compulsion?

Answer 36

• pathological need to act on an impulse that, if resisted, produces anxiety;
• repetitive behavior in response to an obsession or performed according to certain rules

Question 37

What is amnesia?

Answer 37

• partial or total inability to recall past experiences;

- may be medical or emotional in origin

Question 38

What is anterograde amnesia?

Answer 38

amnesia for events occurring after a point in time

Question 39

What is retrograde amnesia?

Answer 39

amnesia for events occurring before a point in time