AB PSYCH PRACTICE TEST 1 Flashcards
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disturbance of orientation in time, place, or person. Delirium: Clouding of consciousness Disorientation: Coma:
Disorientation:
incomplete clear-mindedness with disturbances in perception and
attitudes.
Delirium:
Clouding of consciousness
Disorientation:
Coma:
Clouding of consciousness
lack of reaction to and unawareness of surroundings. Delirium: Stupor Disorientation: Coma:
Stupor
bewildered, restless, confused, disoriented reaction associated with fear and hallucinations. Delirium: Clouding of consciousness Disorientation: Coma:
Delirium:
profound degree of unconsciousness Coma vigil Clouding of consciousness Disorientation: Coma:
Coma:
\: coma in which a patient appears to be asleep but ready to be aroused (also known as akinetic mutism) Coma vigil Clouding of consciousness Disorientation: Coma:
Coma vigil
disturbed consciousness with hallucinations. Coma vigil Twilight state: Disorientation: Coma:
Twilight state:
abnormal drowsiness. Coma vigil Twilight state: Somnolence: Confusion:
Somnolence:
disturbance of consciousness in which reactions to environmental stimuli are
inappropriate, manifested by a disordered orientation in relation to time, place or person.
Coma vigil
Twilight state:
Somnolence:
Confusion:
Confusion:
often used as a synonym for complex partial seizure of psychomotor epilepsy. Coma vigil Dreamlike state: Somnolence: Confusion:
Dreamlike state
state of impaired awareness associated with a desire or inclination to sleep.
Selective inattention
Somnolence:
Hypervigilance:
Drowsiness
. Drowsiness
sydrome in older people that usually occurs at night and is characterized by
drowsiness, confusion, ataxia and falling as the result of being overly sedated with
medication; also called sundowner’s syndrome.
Distractibility:
Sundowning
Selective inattention
Confusion:
Sundowning
inability to concentrate attention; state in which attention is drawn to
unimportant or irrelevant external stimuli.
Distractibility:
Sundowning
Hypervigilance:
Selective inattention
Distractibility:
blocking out only those that generate anxiety. Distractibility: Trance Hypervigilance: Selective inattention
Selective inattention
excessive attention and focus on all internal and external stimuli, usually
secondary to delusional or paranoid states.
Distractibility:
Trance
Hypervigilance:
Selective inattention
Hypervigilance:
: focused attention and altered consciousness, usually seen in hypnosis, dissociative
disorders, and ecstatic religious experiences.
Distractibility:
Trance
Hypervigilance:
Selective inattention
Trance
communicated emotional illness between two (or three) persons. Hypnosis Fausse reconnaissance: Amnesia: Folie a deux (or folie a trios):
Folie a deux (or folie a trios):
artificially induced modification of consciousness characterized by a heightened suggestibility. Hypnosis Fausse reconnaissance: Amnesia: Paramnesia: .
Hypnosis:
partial or total inability to recall past experiences, may be organic or emotional in origin. Hypnosis Fausse reconnaissance: Amnesia: Folie a deux (or folie a trios): .
Amnesia:
falsification of memory by distortion of recall. Confabulation: Fausse reconnaissance: Retrospective falsification Paramnesia:
Paramnesia:
false recognition. Confabulation: Fausse reconnaissance: Retrospective falsification Paramnesia:
Fausse reconnaissance:
memory becomes unintentionally (unconsciously) distorted by being filtered through a person’s present emotional, cognitive, and experiential state. Confabulation: Fausse reconnaissance: Retrospective falsification Paramnesia:
Retrospective falsification
unconscious filling of gaps in memory by imagined or untrue experiences that a person believes but that have no basis in fact, most often associated with organic pathology,
Confabulation:
False memory
Retrospective falsification
Deja vu:
Confabulation:
illusion of visual recognition in which a new situation is uncorrectly
regarded as a repetition of a previous memory.
False memory:
Deja pense:
Déjà vu
Deja entendu:
Déjà vu