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Vocabulary - 9/8
September 8
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The emotional reaction associated with an experience. | AFFECT |
| A side effect of antipsychotic drug therapy. Motor restlessness and intolerance of inactivity. A person may not be able to sit still, are jumpy and appear distracted. | AKATHISIA |
| Inability to experience or even imagineany pleasant emotion. | ANHEDONIA |
| Sudden break in free association as a defense to unpleasant ideas. | BLOCKING |
| Phase in Schizophrenia where patient is unresponsive marked by the tendency to assume and remain in a fixed posture and the inability to move or talk. | CATATONIA |
| Observed in Schizophrenia, Disturbance of associative thought and speech process, patient digresses into unneccessary details and inappropriate thoughts before communicating the central idea. | CIRCUMSTANTIALITY |
| Speech Disorder, marked by use of words grouped by their sound or rhyme rather than their meaning. | CLANG ASSOCIATION |
| Behavioral reaction to memory loss. Pt fills in memory gaps with inappropriate words or fabricated ideas, often in great detail. | CONFABULATION |
| A false belief that can NOT be changed by logic. | DELUSION |
| A delusion that causes the patient to read an unintended meaning into the acts or words of others; often interpreted as ridicule. | DELUSIONS OF REFERENCE |
| Repetition of words heard. | ECHOLALIA |
| Repetition of movements seen. | ECHOPRAXIA |
| Literal Translation no abstract thinking. | CONCRETE THINKING |
| False perceptions without stimulus. Involves any of the 5 senses. | HALLUCINATIONS |
| Falsely interpreting real environment stimulus. | ILLUSIONS |
| Defense mechanism, Childlike Mannerism | REGRESSION |
| Defense mechanism, used in attempt to stabilize and provide structure to disorganized thoughts and behaviors. Preoccupation with religious ideas. | RELIGIOSITY |
| A random jumble of words with no logical connection. | WORD SALAD |
| Invention of new words that have meaning to psychotic person but not to others. | NEOLOGISMS |
| Muscular weakness. | AKINESIA |
| Involuntary muscle movements of face, arms, legs and neck. | DYSTONIA |
| Uncontrolled rolling back of the eyes. | OCULOGYRIC CRISIS |
| Tremors, shuffling gait, drooling, rigidity | PSEUDOPARKINSONISM (Parkinson-like SYMPTOMS) |
| Bizarre facial and tongue movement leading to stiff neck and difficulty swalling. Is a late EPS symptom with no treatment. | TARDIVE DYSKINESIA |
| EPS -Extrapyramidal Reactions | Pseudoparkinsonism, Akinesia, Akathisia, Dystonia, Oculogyric Crisis |
| Defect in ability to perform voluntary movement. | DYSKINESIA |
| Greatly diminished emotional response to a situation of condition. (diminished) | BLUNTED AFFECT |
| Virtual absence of emotional response to a situation or condition. (Absence) | FLAT AFFECT |
| A thinking process characterized by speech in which ideas shift from one unrelated topic to another and the individual is unaware that the topics are unrelated. | Associative Looseness (Looseness of association) |
| Primitive form of thinking, individual believes that thinking about an occurrence can make it happen. | MAGICAL THINKING |
| Persistent repetition of the same words or ideas in response to different questions. | PERSEVERATION |
| Inability to get the point of a story. Speaker introduces many unrelated topics until the original topic of discussion is lost. | TANGENTIALITY |
| Contion with Schizophrenia, passively yields all movable body parts to any efforts made at placing them in certain positions. | WAXY FLEXIBILITY |
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