perception Flashcards
False perceptions in the absence of stimuli to account for them
Hallucinations
most common type of hallucination
auditory
pero pwede din visual, tactile, olfactory or gustatory
hallucination as one is going asleep
hypnagogic
hallucination as one is waking up from sleep
hypnopompic
Misperception of stimuli
illusions
Feeling that one is not oneself or that something has changed
depersonalization
Feeling that one’s environment has changed in some strange way that is difficult to describe
derealization
Selective loss or disuse of knowledge of specific objects because of emotional disturbances (psych)
Agnosia
Inability to recognize a physical deficit in oneself
Anosognosia
Inability to recognize a part of one’s body as own
Somatopagnosia (ignorance of body)
Inability to recognize objects or person seen
Visual Agnosia
Inability to recognize objects by touch
Astereognosis
Inability to recognize faces
Prosopagnosia
Inability to carry out specific tasks
Apraxia
Inability to comprehend more than one element into visual scene at a time or to integrate the parts into a whole
Simultagnosia
Inability to perform rapid alternating movements
Dysdiadochokinesia
Sensory syndrome preceding an attack
Aura
Development of symbolic physical symptoms and distortions involving the voluntary muscles or special sense organs, not under voluntary control and not explained by any physical disorder
Conversion Phenomena
Unconscious defense mechanism involving segregation of any group of mental or behavioral processes from the rest of the person’s psychic activity
Dissociation
Loss of sensory modalities resulting from emotional conflicts
Hysterical Anesthesia
State in which objects seem larger than they are
Macropsia
State in which objects seem smaller than they are
Micropsia
Dissociative disorder characterized by a period of almost complete amnesia, during which a person flees from an immediate life situation and begins a different life pattern
fugue
One person who appears at different times to be 2 or more entirely different characters
Multiple Personality
