memory, insight and judgement

Question 1

Ability to reproduce or recall what has been learned or retained through activities or experiences

Answer 1

memory

Question 2

2 steps of memory

Answer 2

Encoding: “putting information into a filing cabinet”

Retrieval: “getting the information from the filing cabinet”

Question 3

Facilitation of the ability to detect or identify a particular stimulus based on a specific recent experience

Answer 3

priming

Question 4

Autobiographical memory responsible for storing a record of our past experiences

Answer 4

Episodic memory

Question 5

Store of general, factual knowledge about the world, concepts, rules and language

Answer 5

Semantic memory

Question 6

LTM that cannot be inspected consciously - “Knowing how”

Answer 6

procedural memory

Question 7

“Knowing that”; supports the conscious recollection of facts and events, available to conscious recollection

Answer 7

Declarative memory

Question 8

Inaccessible to awareness and is expressed only by engaging specific processing systems

Answer 8

Non-declarative memory

Question 9

Active store to hold information being manipulated

Answer 9

Short-term memory

Question 10

Like a computer screen, a kind of mental workspace where various operations are performed on current data

Answer 10

working memory

Question 11

Storage memory, holds large amounts of information in fairly passive state for possible future retrieval

Answer 11

long term memory

Question 12

Functions over period of seconds

Answer 12

Immediate memory

Question 13

Applied to scale of minutes to days

Answer 13

Recent memory

Question 14

Encompasses months to years

Answer 14

Remote memory

Question 15

Partial or total inability to recall past experiences, may be organic or emotional in origin; affects declarative memory only

Answer 15

amnesia

Question 16

loss of new learning ability that extends across all sensory modalities and stimulus domains

Answer 16

anterograde amnesia

Question 17

loss of knowledge acquired before amnseia

Answer 17

Retrograde amnesia

Question 18

Impaired ability to learn new information or the inability to recall previously learned information, as a result of which there is significant impairment in social or occupational functioning

Answer 18

Amnestic disorder

Question 19

Disturbance of memory in which reality and fantasy are confused

Answer 19

paramnesia

Question 20

false recognition

Answer 20

Fausse reconnaissance

Question 21

memory becomes unintentionally (unconsciously) distorted by being filtered through the person’s emotional, cognitive, and experiential state

Answer 21

Retrospective falsification

Question 22

unconscious filling of gaps in memory by imagining experiences that have no basis in fact

Answer 22

Confabulation

Question 23

illusion of visual recognition in which a new situation is incorrectly regarded as repetition of previous experience

Answer 23

de ja vu

Question 24

illusion that one is hearing one has heard previously

Answer 24

de ja entendu

Question 25

condition in which a thought never entertained before is incorrectly regarded as a repetition of a previous thought

Answer 25

de ja pense

Question 26

a person’s recollection and belief by the patient of an event that did not actually occur (emotional, physical, or sexual trauma that did not occur)

Answer 26

false memory

Question 27

Exaggerated degree of retention and recall; can be elicited by hypnosis or certain prodigies, may also be a feature of OCD

Answer 27

Hypermnesia

Question 28

Unusually vivid or exact mental image of objects previously seen or imagined

Answer 28

Eidetic imaging

Question 29

consciously tolerable memory covering for painful memory

Answer 29

Screen memory

Question 30

Unconscious forgetting of unacceptable ideas or impulses

Answer 30

Repression

Question 31

Momentary forgetting of a name or a proper noun

Answer 31

Lethologica

Question 32

Amnesia experienced by alcoholics about behaviour during drinking bouts

Answer 32

Blackout

Question 33

Capacity for leaving and ability to recall, to integrate constructively and to apply what was learned

Answer 33

intelligence

Question 34

IQ class

Answer 34

■ Mild: 50-70

■ Moderate: 35-50

■ Severe: 20-40

■ Profound: <20

Question 35

significant limitations in both intellectual and functioning (reasoning, learning and problem solving) and in adaptive behaviour (conceptual, social and practical skills) that emerge before 18 y/o.

Answer 35

mental retardation or Intellectual disability

Question 36

Global developmental delay

Answer 36

<5 y/o with severe defects

Question 37

general impairment in intellectual functioning without clouding of consciousness; characterized by failing memory, difficulty with calculation, distractibility alterations in mood and affect, impaired judgement, reduced facility with language and disorientation

Answer 37

Dementia

Question 38

clinical features of dementia but caused by organic condition

Answer 38

Pseudodementia

Question 39

literal thinking

Answer 39

Concrete thinking

Question 40

ability to grasp the essential of a whole, to break a whole into its parts, and to discern common properties.

Answer 40

Abstract thinking

Question 41

5 levels of insight

Answer 41

complete denial of illness

slight awareness and needing help but denying

awareness of being sick but blaming it on others, external events, or medical or unknown organic factors.

Intellectual Insight - good understanding of illness; may be able to discuss illness in a clear and objective way but have not fully accepted their illness/motivated to change behaviour.

True emotional Insight - deep understanding of illness, impact on own, and other people’s lives; motivated to change and improve

Question 42

deep understanding of illness and how it has shaped their personality and relationships; integrated into their sense of self and able to live a meaningful and fulfilling life

Answer 42

Personal Insight

Question 43

essential component to good judgement

Analyze information, identify biases and assumptions, evaluate evidences and make sound decisions.

Answer 43

Critical thinking

Question 44

ability to think logically and objectively without being swayed by emotions, biases or other factors that may cloud judgement.

Answer 44

Rational thinking

Question 45

reflex performance of an action.

Answer 45

Automatic thinking