Motor Behavior Flashcards
The aspect of the Psyche which includes impulses, motivations, wishes, drives, instincts, and cravings, as expressed by a person’s behavior or motor activity
Motor Behavior
The person’s pathological imitation of movements of another person
Echopraxia
Motor anomalies in nonorganic disorders
Catatonia
General term used to describe an immobile person that is constantly maintained
Catalepsy
Agitated, purposeless motor activity that is uninfluenced by external stimuli
Catatonic Excitement
Noticeable slowed motor activity, often to a point of immobility and seeming unawareness of sorroundings
Catatonic Stupor
Voluntary assumption of rigid posture, held against all efforts to be moved
Catatonic Rigidity
Voluntary assumption of inappropriate or bizarre posture which is generally maintained form a long periods of time
Catatonic Posturing
A condition wherein the person can be molded into a position that is maintained. When the examiner moves the person’s limb, the limb feels as if it were made of wax
Cerea Flexibilitas (waxy flexibility)
Motiveless resistance to all instructions or to all attempts to be moved
Negativism
Temporary muscle weakness and loss of muscle tone precipitated by variety of emotional states
Cataplexy
Repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech
stereotypy
Deep seated/ingrained and habitual involuntary movement
Mannerism
Automatic performance of an acts generally representative of unconscious symbolic activity
Automatism
Automatic following of suggestion
Command Automatism (automatic obedience)
Voicelessness that is caused by structural abnormalities or physical condition
Mutism
Abnormality in motor behavior that can manifest itself as psychomotor agitation, hyperactivity, tic, sleepwalking, or compulsion
Overactivity
Excessive motor and cognitive overactivity, usually non productive and in response in inner tension
Psychomotor agitation
restless, aggressive, and destructive activity often associated with some underlying organic pathology
Hyperactivity (restlessness)
Involuntary, spasmodic motor movement
Tic
Motor activity during sleep
Sleepwalking (Somnambulism)
Subjective feeling of muscular tension secondary to antipsychotic or other medication, which can cause restlessness, pacing, repeated sitting, and standing: can be mistaken for psychotic agitation
Akathisia
Uncontrollable impulse to perform an act repetitively
Compulsion
Compulsion to drink
Dipsomania