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