Terms Flashcards
attention
ability to remain focused; distruption cause distractibility
consciousness
state of awareness that response to external stimuli; distrubances are usually result of prain pathology; disorientation, delirium, confusion
Delirium
an acute, reversible disorder that presents as a disoriented raction with confusion, lability and distruances in behavior (agression)
Sundowner syndrome
- occurs in lat afternoon/at night in older people (with dementia)
- drowsiness, confusion, ataxia, falling, agitation, and sometimes agression
- associated with sedation/oversedation. dementia, and chaneges in orienting cues such as light, familiar people and objects
remote memory
ability to recall events of the distant past, AKA long-term memory
procedural memory
an automatic, sequence of behavior such as conditioned responses
declarative memory
recall specific to consciously learned facts, such as school
semantic memory
knowing meaning of words and abilty to classify info
episodic memory
knowledge of one’s personal experiences
prospective memory
- the capcaity to remember to carry out actions in the future, such as knowing you have appointment scheudled, to turn off the stove, and to pay the bills
- important to live** safely and independently**
Retrograde amnesia
the inability to remember event that occurred prior to the precipitating events
echopraxia
meaningless imitation of another person’s movement
catatonia
immobility of rigdity
stereotypy
repetition of fixed patterns of movement and speech
akathisia
state of restlessness characterized by an urgen need for movement, usually as a side effect of meds.
