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Midterm Exam Flashcards

1
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When the person is dreaming but fully aware that one is, and can make oneself awake from that dream

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Lucid dream

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2
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Jesse believes that the world is going to end and prepares for dooms day

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Nihilistic Day

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3
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When a person dreams of what one is so apprehensive about

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Anxiety dream

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4
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What is the correct order of the stages of development?

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Oral, anal phallic, Latency, Genetal

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5
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Can understand but cannot speak appropriately

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Motor Aphasia

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6
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What is an example of an regression?

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Returning to an earlier age to cope with the situation

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7
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Not a characteristic of primary processing

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Coherent

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8
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Terry is very anxious that she keeps walking back-and-forth

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Motor agitation

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9
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Apprehension in response to anticipate the danger

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Anxiety

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10
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Presence of the opposing impulses toward the same person at the same time

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Ambivalence

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During an interview, Anton ages 24 says I found it in my car, a guitar near a star

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Clang association

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12
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Martin maintain his arm in the position. It is placed for an extended period of time

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Waxy flexibility

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13
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A perceptual disturbances in the absence of a real stimulus

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Hallucination

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14
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Voicelessness as without any structure, abnormality

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Mutism

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15
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Executive functions involved, problem-solving, initiative, organizing, and the monitor and inhibit complex behaviors

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Prefrontal cortex

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16
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According to Sigmund freud, the super Ego

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Is responsible for gender identity and sexual

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17
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When the individual is unable to recognize every day objects and need them correctly, this is known as

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Agnosia

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18
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Ability to understand one’s situation

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Consciousness

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19
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Which one of the following is correct regarding changes in personality after traumatic brain injury

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Damage to the frontal lobe

20
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Betty is using ________ a defense mechanism

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Projection

21
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If the suffer is hosting the virus over many years, it may induce multiple symptoms of motor and cognitive dysfunction, and create a syndrome of impairment

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HIV dementia

22
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Incoherent mixture of words and phrases

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Word salad

23
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Tom and Sally have been dating for two years. Sally breaks up with Tom because he cheated on her with Betty. Sally tell her friend Kelly about Tom, but she tells her without showing any emotion. Tom continues to call Sally and treat her as he did when they were going out. Betty, who did not know about Sally, tells Tom that she is glad that he feels guilty for hurting Sally. She also tells him that it will take a long time to get over the guilt. Sally is using Ian; While she wanted to be a doctor, Gwen didh’t get accepted to a medical school and became a as a defense mechanism

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Isolation

24
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Jenny blocks are bad memories of high school bullies from her mind. This is what an example of defense mechanism?

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Repression

25
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Loss of interest in doing activities that were once enjoyed

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Anhedonia

26
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A general term for catatonia

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Cataplexy

27
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Damn is a shop owner and a thief he automatically accuses anyone who looks suspicious in his store of stealing what defense mechanism?

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Projection

28
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Pathological copying of movement

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Echopraxia

29
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Forcing thought streaming unconscious, in order to avoid the anxiety that would result if they were conscious is the definition of which defense mechanism

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Repression

30
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James fever uncle passes away from a long battle with illness, but he refuses to believe

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Denial

31
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Sudden loss of muscle tone in response to an extreme emotion

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Cataplexy

32
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If an individual suffers a traumatic event and has a neurological disorder, that means they may be unable to recall anything from the moment of injury, or to remain the memories of recent events this is known as

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Anterograde amnesia

33
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Anna’s husband died and she continues to set a place for him at the dinner table

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Denial

34
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Also referred as the normal range of mood

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Euthymia

35
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Helen presents a slow in her movements

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Motor retardation

36
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Kevin’s laugh when speaking of the death of his child

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Incongruent affect

37
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Often the first signs of neurological disorder are deficit in basic cognitive functions and also deficits in skills that involve problem solving planning and engaging in goal directed behavior this type of functions are known as?

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Executive functions

38
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Which is not true of dream categories

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Prophetic

39
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One of the most common features of neurological disorders or language deficits, and are collectively known as

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Aphasias

40
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Cognitive disturbance commonly found in depressed, elderly people

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Pseudodementia

41
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Mary is crying because she’s depressed

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Congruent affect

42
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Miriam, a 50 year old woman is focused and all her belongings being taken from her

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Dilution of poverty

43
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False belief being held onto against all logic

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Delusion

44
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A perceptual disturbances in the presence of real stimulus

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Illusion

45
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Which of the following statements is false in describing a person with a high achievement motive

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They consistently get better grades from easy choses scores

46
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Lots of normal speech melody

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Dysprosody

47
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Inability to describe once on emotion

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Alexithymia

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