AP PSYCH VOCAB

Assiduous

Showing great care and perseverance.

Lozenge

Small medicinal tablet, originally in the shape of a lozenge, taken for sore throats and dissolved in the mouth.

Neuropsychology

This type of doctor specializes in understanding the relationship between the physical brain and behavior.

Hemiplegia

Paralysis of one side of the body.

Anosmia

Partial or complete loss of the sense of smell.

COnfabulatory

Memory error defined as the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive.

Proprioception

Perception or awareness of the position and movement of the body.

Febrile

Having or showing the symptoms of a fever.

Ebriety

A disturbance in behavior or mental function during or after alcohol consumption.

Spirochete

A flexible spirally twisted bacterium, especially one that causes syphilis.

Retrograde Amnesia

A loss of memory-access to events that occurred, or information that was learned, before an injury or the onset of a disease.

Apraxia

A motor disorder caused by damage to the brain (specifically the posterior parietal cortex) in which the individual has difficulty with the motor planning to perform tasks or movements when asked.

Prosopagnosic

A neurological condition characterized by the inability to recognize the faces of familiar people.

Physiognomy

A person's facial features or expression, especially when regarded as indicative of character or ethnic origin.

Catatonia

Abnormality of movement and behavior arising from a disturbed mental state (typically schizophrenia). It may involve repetitive or purposeless overactivity, or catalepsy, resistance to passive movement, and negativism.

Temporal Lobe

Adjacent areas in the superior, posterior, and lateral parts of the temporal lobes are involved in high-level auditory processing. The temporal lobe is involved in primary auditory perception, such as hearing, and holds the primary auditory cortex.

Atrial Fibrillation

Also called AFib or AF, it is a quivering or irregular heartbeat (arrhythmia) that can lead to blood clots, stroke, heart failure and other heart-related complications.

Scotoma

An area of partial alteration in the field of vision consisting of a partially diminished or entirely degenerated visual acuity that is surrounded by a field of normal - or relatively well-preserved - vision.

Polyneuritis

Any disorder that affects the peripheral nerves collectively.

Embolus

Blood clot, air bubble, piece of fatty deposit, or other object which has been carried in the bloodstream to lodge in a vessel and cause an embolism.

Derision

Contemptuous ridicule or mockery.

Phenomenological

Denoting or relating to an approach that concentrates on the study of consciousness and the objects of direct experience.

Fulgurate

Destroy (small growths or areas of tissue) using diathermy.

Macabre

Disturbing and horrifying because of involvement with or depiction of death and injury.

Parietal Lobe

Either of the paired lobes of the brain at the top of the head, including areas concerned with the reception and correlation of sensory information.

Tabes

Emaciation.

Phantasmagoric

Having a fantastic or deceptive appearance, as something in a dream or created by the imagination. having the appearance of an optical illusion, especially one produced by a magic lantern. changing or shifting, as a scene made up of many elements.

Unlauded

Given no praise.

Hyperkinetic

Hyperactive, moving frequently.

Phylogenetically

In a way that relates to the evolutionary development and diversification of a species or group of organisms.

Gnosis

Knowledge of spiritual mysteries.

Aphasia

Loss of ability to understand or express speech, caused by brain damage.

Vestibular

Relating to a vestibule, particularly that of the inner ear, or more generally to the sense of balance.

prodigious

Remarkably or impressively great in extent, size, or degree.

Redolent

Strongly reminiscent or suggestive of (something).

Athetotic

Symptom characterized by slow, involuntary, convoluted, writhing movements of the fingers, hands, toes, and feet and in some cases, arms, legs, neck and tongue.

Versimilitude

The appearance of being true or real.

Metaphysically

The branch of philosophy that deals with the first principles of things, including abstract concepts such as being, knowing, substance, cause, identity, time, and space.

Agnosia

The inability to interpret sensations and hence to recognize things, typically as a result of brain damage.

Loquacity

The quality of talking a great deal; talkativenes.

Malignancy

The state or presence of a malignant tumor; cancer.

Cerebral Edema

When fluid builds up around the brain, causing an increase in pressure known as intracranial pressure. Swelling or inflammation is part of the body's natural response to injury. Edema refers to swelling due to trapped fluid, and it can happen anywhere in the body.

Mnemonic

device such as a pattern of letters, ideas, or associations that assists in remembering something.

Eidetic

relating to or denoting mental images having unusual vividness and detail, as if actually visible.