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What is Disorientation?
a disturbance of orientation to person, place, or time
What is Delirium?
A disoriented reaction with restless and confusion. It may be associated with fear and hallucinations.
What is Confusion?
Involves inappropriate reactions to environmental stimuli, manifested by a disordered orientation in relation to person, place, and time.
What is Sundowning?
- occurs in the late afternoon and at night in older people
- characterized by drowsiness, confusion, ataxia, falling, agitation, and sometimes aggression
- associated with sedation, dementia, and changes in orienting cues such as light, familiar people, and objects
What is Distractibility?
The inability to concentrate one's attention without attention being drawn to unimportant or irrelevant stimuli.
What is Selective Inattention?
Blocking out those activities, objects, or concepts that produce anxiety.
What is Hypervigilance?
Excessive attention and altertness that guards against potential danger.
What is a Trance?
A sleeplike state with minimal environmental awareness, followed by amnesia for the experience.
What is Affect?
The observable component of emotions.
What is Appropriate Affect?
Consistent with the accompanying idea, though, or speech.
What is Inappropriate Affect?
Inconsistent with the accompanying idea, thought, or speech.
What is Blunted Affect?
A severe lack of affect.
What is Restricted or Constricted Affect?
Reduced, but less so than blunted affect.
What is Flat Affect?
The absence of any affective signs of emotion.
What is Labile Affect?
Rapid and abrupt changes in affect.
What is Free-floating Anxiety?
A pervasive anxiety that does not have a specific focus.
What is Echopraxia?
The meaningless imitation of another person's movements.
What is Catatonia?
Characterized by immobility or rigidity.
What is Stereotypy?
The repetition of fixed patterns of movement and speech (e.g., echolalia).
What is Psychomotor Agitation?
Excessive motor and cognitive activity, usually nonproductive and in response to inner tension.
What is Hyperactivity?
Restlessness, sometimes aggressive, or destructive activity, often associated with brain pathology.
What is Psychomotor Retardation?
Decreased or slowed motor and cognitive activity.
What is Aggression?
Forceful, angry, or destructive speech or behavior.
What is Acting Out?
The physical expression of thoughts and impulses.
What is Akathisia?
The state of restlessness characterized by an urgent need for movement, usually as a side effect of medication.
What is Ataxia?
The irregularity or failure of muscle coordination upon movement.
What is Circumstantiality?
Speech that is delayed in reaching the point and contains excessive or irrelevant details.
What is Tangentiality?
The abrupt changing of focus to a loosely associated topic.
What is Perseveration?
A persistent focus on a previous topic or behavior after a new topic or behavior has been introduced.
What is Flight of Ideas?
Refers to rapid shifts in thoughts from one idea to another.
What is Thought Blocking?
The interruption of a thought process before it is carried through to completion.
What is Delusions?
False beliefs about external reality without an appropriate stimulus that cannot be explained by the individual's intelligence or cultural background.
What is Compulsions?
A need to act on specific impulses to relieve associated anxiety.
What are Obsessions?
Constitute a persistent thought or feeling that cannot be eliminated by logical thought.
What is Pressured Speech?
Rapid and increased in amount. It may be difficult to interrupt.
What is Poverty of Speech?
Limited in amount and content.
WHat is Nonspontaneous Speech?
Consists of resopnses that are given only when spoken to directly.
What is Stuttering?
Consists of the repetition or prolongation of sounds or syllables.
What is Perseveration of Speech?
Continued repetition of a word or phrase.
What is Expressive (Broca's) Aphasia?
A disturbance in which the individual knows what he/she wants to say, but cannot say it.
What is Receptive (Wernicke's) Aphasia?
An organic loss of the ability to comprehend what has been said.
What is Nominal Aphasia?
Also known as Anomial or Amnestic.

The inability to name objects.
What is Global Aphasia?
Involves all forms of aphasia.
What are Hallucinations?
False sensory perceptions that are not in response to an external stimulus.
What are Illusions?
Misperceptions or misinterpretations of real sensory events.
What is Agnosia?
The inability to understand and interpret the significance of sensory input.
What is Astereognosis?
The inability to identify objects through touch.
What is Visual Agnosia?
The inability to recognize people and objects.
What is Apraxia?
The inability to carry out specific motor tasks in the absence of sensory or motor impairment.