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Psych Quiz 5: Key Terms

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altered cognition, perception, and/or impaired ability to determine what is real or not
psychosis
time when milder symptoms of the disorder develop, often months or years before the disorder becomes fully apparent
prodromal phase
the presence of symptoms that should not be present
positive symptoms
the absence of actions/thoughts that should be present
negative symptoms
subtle or obvious impairments in memory, thinking, judgement, attention, or problem solving
cognitive symptoms
symptoms that involve emotions and their expression
affective symptoms
automatic and unconscious process by which we determine what is real and what is not real
reality testing
false beliefs held despite a lack of evidence to support them
delusions
looseness of association
"I need to get a bandaid. My friend was talking about AIDS"
associative looseness
the most extreme form of associative looseness
word salad
a jumble of words that are meaningless to the listener
word salad
choosing words based on their sound rather than their meaning, often involving words that rhyme
clang association
words that have meaning for the patient but a different or nonexistent meaning to others
neologisms
pathological repeating of another's words
echolalia
an irrational fear ranging from mild to profound
paranoia
sensory experiences to which no external stimulus exists
hallucinations
a particularly disturbing hallucinations that directs the person to take an action
command halluncinations
misperceptions or misinterpretations of a real experience
illusions
a man seeing a coat on a shadowy coat rack and thinking it is a bear is an example of what?
an illusion
the mimicking of movements of another
exopraxia
the external expression of a person's internal emotional state
affect
an impaired ability to think abstractly, resulting in interpreting things in a literal manner
concrete thinking
difficulty with reasoning, setting priorities, comparing options, placing things in logical order or groups, etc.; interferes with problem solving
impaired executive function
the inability to realize they are ill cause by the illness itself
anosognosia
True/False: Second-generation (atypical) antipsychotics produce fewer extrapyramidal side effects than first-generation (conventional)
True!
what are the 4 main extrapyramidal side effects?
1. acute dystonia
2. akathisia
3. pseudoparkinsonism
4. tardive dyskinesia
sudden, sustained contraction of one or several muscle groups, usually of head and neck (extrapyramidal side effect)
acute dystonia
a motor restlessness that causes pacing, repetitive movements, or an inability to stay still or remain in one place (extrapyramidal side effect)
akasthisia
a temporary group of symptoms that look like Parkinson's disease with tremors, reduced movement, gait slowing, reduced face expressions, slowing of motor (extrapyramidal side effect)
pseudoparkinsonism
persistent extrapyramidal symptoms involving involuntary rhythmic movements
tardive dyskinesia
a potentially life-threatening medical emergency caused by antipsychotics or other meds with anticholinergic effects (including many Parkinson drugs)
anticholinergic toxicity
condition involving reduced consciousness, increased muscle tone, and autonomic dysfunction that occurs in 0.2-1% of patients who take first-gen antipsychotics
neuroleptic malignant syndrome
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