Motor Behavior

Question 1

The aspect of the Psyche which includes impulses, motivations, wishes, drives, instincts, and cravings, as expressed by a person’s behavior or motor activity

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Motor Behavior

Question 2

The person’s pathological imitation of movements of another person

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Echopraxia

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Motor anomalies in nonorganic disorders

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Catatonia

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General term used to describe an immobile person that is constantly maintained

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Catalepsy

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Agitated, purposeless motor activity that is uninfluenced by external stimuli

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Catatonic Excitement

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Noticeable slowed motor activity, often to a point of immobility and seeming unawareness of sorroundings

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Catatonic Stupor

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Voluntary assumption of rigid posture, held against all efforts to be moved

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Catatonic Rigidity

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Voluntary assumption of inappropriate or bizarre posture which is generally maintained form a long periods of time

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Catatonic Posturing

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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

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Cerea Flexibilitas (waxy flexibility)

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Motiveless resistance to all instructions or to all attempts to be moved

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Negativism

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Temporary muscle weakness and loss of muscle tone precipitated by variety of emotional states

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Cataplexy

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Repetitive fixed pattern of physical action or speech

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stereotypy

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Deep seated/ingrained and habitual involuntary movement

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Mannerism

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Automatic performance of an acts generally representative of unconscious symbolic activity

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Automatism

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Automatic following of suggestion

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Command Automatism (automatic obedience)

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Voicelessness that is caused by structural abnormalities or physical condition

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Mutism

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Abnormality in motor behavior that can manifest itself as psychomotor agitation, hyperactivity, tic, sleepwalking, or compulsion

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Overactivity

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Excessive motor and cognitive overactivity, usually non productive and in response in inner tension

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Psychomotor agitation

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restless, aggressive, and destructive activity often associated with some underlying organic pathology

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Hyperactivity (restlessness)

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Involuntary, spasmodic motor movement

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Tic

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Motor activity during sleep

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Sleepwalking (Somnambulism)

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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

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Akathisia

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Uncontrollable impulse to perform an act repetitively

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Compulsion

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Compulsion to drink

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Dipsomania

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Compulsion to steal

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Kleptomania

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Excessive and compulsive need for coitus in a woman

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Nymphomania

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Excessive and compulsive need for coitus in a man

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Satyriasis

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Compulsion to pull out one’s hair

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Trichotillomania

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Automatic activity compulsive in nature, anxiety-reducing in origin

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Ritual

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Decreased in motor and cognitive activity, as in psychomotor retardation; visible slowing thought, speech movements

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Hypoactivity (hypokinesis)

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Simple, imitative motor activity of childhood

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Mimicry

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Forceful-goal directed action that maybe verbal or physical; the motor counterpart of the affect of rage, anger, or hostility

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Aggression

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Direct expression of an unconscious wish or impulse in action; unconscious fantasy is lived out impulsively in behavior

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Acting Out