NURS 451: Terms to Know Questions And Answers Graded A+

echopraxia - mimicking the movements of another echolalia - pathological repeating of another's words, occurring perhaps because the patient's thought processes are so impaired that he is unable to generate speech of his own waxy flexibility - Maintaining a given posture inappropraitely Pseudoparkinsonism - a temporary group of symptoms that looks like Parkinson's disease: tremor, reduced accessory movements, gait impairment, reduced facial expressiveness, and slowing of motor behavior akathisia - a motor restlessness that causes pacing, repetitive movements, or an inability to stay still or remain in one place akinesia - inability to initiate movement dyskinesia - difficult movement dystonia - a condition of abnormal muscle tone that causes the impairment of voluntary muscle movement hallucinations - false sensory experiences, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual stimulus auditory hallucinations - hearing voices, noises, music, or sounds that are not actually real olfactory hallucination - The phenomenon of smelling odors that are not really le hallucination - Hallucination involving the perception of being touched or of something being under one's skin gustatory hallucination - This type of hallucination is the perception of taste without a stimulus. delusions - false beliefs held despite a lack of evidence to support them persecutory delusions - believing that one is being singled out for harm, prevented from progress by others grandeur delusions - false belief that one is a powerful and important person jealousy delusions - Usually between romantic partners; a patient is firmly convinced that her spouse is cheating on her despite contrary evidence or based on minimal data