Psych AUA MED 3| 348 Questions | With Complete Solutions

abreaction correct answer: a process by which repressed material, particularly a painful experience or conflict is brought back to consciousness, in this process the person not only recalls, but also relived the repressed material, which is accompained by the appropriate affective response abulia correct answer: reduced impluse to act and to think, associated with indifference about consequences o action. occurs as a result of neurological deficit, depression and schiozo acalculia correct answer: loss of ability to do caculations not caused by anxiety or impairment in concentration. occurs with nuerological deficit and learning disorder acataphasia correct answer: disordered speech could use words not appropriate to thoughts, or inappropriate expressions acathexis correct answer: lack of feeling associaed with an ordinarly emotionally charged subject. it denotates deattaching, also called decathexis. Occurs in anxiety, dissociative, schizo and bipolar acenesthesia correct answer: loss of sensation of physical existance aculalia correct answer: nonsense speech associated with marker impairment of comprehension. occurs in mania, schizo, and neurological deficit adiadochokinesia correct answer: inability to perform rapid alternating movements. occurs with neurological deficit and creballar lesions aerophagia correct answer: excessive swallowing of air, seen in anxiety disorder aguesia correct answer: lack or impairment in sense of taste. seen in depression and neurological deficit ailurophobia correct answer: dread of cats akathisia correct answer: feeling of motor restlesness manifested by a need to be in constant movement.Can be an extrapyramidal adverse affect of antipsychotic medication