Psych Clinical

Question 1

Disturbance of orientation to time, place or person

Answer 1

Disorientation

Question 2

A state of impaired awareness associated with a desire or inclination to sleep

Answer 2

Drowsiness

Question 3

abnormal drowsiness

Answer 3

Somnolence

Question 4

consciousness disturbance and patient is not aware

about the surroundings

Answer 4

Dream like state

Question 5

occur in older persons that usually occurs at night

and is characterized by drowsiness, confusion, ataxia, and falling as a result of being overly sedated with medications

Answer 5

Sun downing syndrome

Question 6

A disturbance of consciousness

Answer 6

Delirium

Question 7

condition in which the patient is immobile, mute, and unresponsive to any stimuli neither external, nor internal

Answer 7

Stupor

Question 8

unresponsive to all stimuli (pain), impaired consciousness

Answer 8

Coma

Question 9

state of restricted consciousness, starts and ends abruptly, amnesia is complete

Answer 9

Twilight state

Question 10

memory loss, as does psychogenic
amnesia, but it also including traveling away from
home or from one’s usual work locale. memory loss, as does psychogenic amnesia, but it also including traveling away from home or from one’s usual work locale.

Answer 10

Fugue

Question 11

Excess unproductive over activity characterized by

speeding and restlessness

Answer 11

Agitation

Question 12

sever form of hyperactivity, excessive purposeless motor activity and the patient may destruct himself
or other

Answer 12

Excitement

Question 13

sleep walking

Answer 13

Somnambulism

Question 14

It is a monotonous repetition of certain movement without purpose.

Answer 14

Stereotypy

Question 15

It is a repeated movement which isn’t monotonous and

keeping with the personality character.

Answer 15

Mannerism

Question 16

it is the maintenance of imposed postures however abnormal they may be the absence of fatigue in such cases is remarkable

Answer 16

Waxy flexibility

Question 17

imitating the movement of another person

Answer 17

Echopraxia

Question 18

Frequent opposition to suggestion

Answer 18

Negativism

Question 19

the performance of all simple commands in a robot-like fashion may be present in catatonic.

Answer 19

Automatic obedience

Question 20

is an action that is sudden , abrupt , unplanned

and directed toward immediate gratification

Answer 20

Impulsiveness

Question 21

Extremely slow and different movement that in the

extremes can entail complete inactivity and incontinence

Answer 21

Psychomotor retardation

Question 22

repeated irregular movements involving a muscle group

Answer 22

Tics

Question 23

restriction in the amount / quantity of speech

used. replies may be monosyllabic

Answer 23

Poverty of speech

Question 24

verbal responses given only when asked or spoken to directly; no self-initiation of speech

Answer 24

Nonspontaneous speech

Question 25

pauses and repetition of parts of words that breaks

the flow of speech

Answer 25

Stuttering

Question 26

loss of normal speech intonation /melody

Answer 26

loss of normal speech intonation /

melody

Question 27

The patient has difficulty forming words, difficulty thinking of specific word, uses incorrect words, or making up words (neologisms)

Answer 27

Aphasia

Question 28

Dull / absence of emotional experience Patient may state: I do not feel anything, I feel nothing

Answer 28

Apathy

Question 29

A state of the absence of emotional

expression but experience is present

Answer 29

Indifference

Question 30

Holding at the same time of two opposing emotions, attitudes, ideas or wishes toward the same person, situation or object

Answer 30

Ambivalence

Question 31

it is feeling of happiness How with air of confidence and

enjoyment associative with increase motor activity.

Answer 31

Elation

Question 32

it is a heightened feeling of psychological well being inappropriate to apparent event.

Answer 32

Euphoria

Question 33

Rapid and abrupt changes in emotional state, unrelated to external stimuli

Answer 33

Labile Mood