Psych Shelf
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Created by:
kcondon on January 17, 2010
Subjects:
psychiatry, usmle step 2 rapid review
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Delusion of Reference | events, objects, or persons in one's environment that are belieed to have particular personal significance |
| circumstantial thinking | communication of unnecessary details before finally arriving at the central idea |
| delusion | false belief not supported by fact and cannot be challenged successfully by logic or reasoning |
| Intermittent explosive disorder | discrete episodes of aggression and destruction out of proportion with the precipitant stressor. EEG changes in 55% |
| Illusion | misinterpretation of a real sensory stimulus. common in ppl w.out psych disorders also. content affected by person's state of mind, wishes, and fears |
| Rett's disorder | nml pre and postnatal development but lose previously acquired purposeful hand skills between 5-30 mos. Stereotyped hand movements, poor coordination. A PDD |
| Orientation | state of awareness of time, place, identity of oneself and others |
| OCPD/ obsessive compulsive personality disorder | preoccupation with perfection, orderliness, and control. Lose main point of activity because they pay too much attention to details and rules |
| moderate mental retardation | IQ 35-55%. function at preschool to second grade level |
| concrete thinking | lose ability to form abstract concepts. nml in kids, also seen in MR, dementia, and schizophrenia |
| catatonic posturing | voluntary assumption of an inappropriate or bizarre posture for long periods of time. usually seen in schizophrenia, esp catatonic type |
| countertransference | psychotherapists transference response to the pt |
| hallucination | perception of a stimulus when none is present. auditory most common in psychosis; tactile, visual, gustatory, olfactory, or kinesthetic in neuro d/o's |
| abstract thinking | capacity to generalize and formulate concepts |
| delirium | fluctuations in consciousness and disorientation. Also memory, language, sleep-wake disturbances |
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