Quiz 1

• Illusion

  • misperception of an actual external stimuli
• Hallucination

  • false sensory perception in the absence of external stimuli
  • false belief
• Neologism

  • pathological coining of new words
  • words invented by the client
• Circumstantiality

  • over inclusion of details
  • include unnecessary, excessive, irrelevant details in speaking or writing
• Looseness of Association

  • shifting of a topic from one subject to another in somewhat related way
  • fragmented or poorly related thoughts or ideas
• Perseveration

  • persistence of a response to a previous question
  • persistent adherence to a specific idea or topic
• Echolalia

  • pathological repetition of words of others
• Clang association

  • the sound of the word gives direction to the flow of thought.
  • words that is related to words, have rhyming or sounding
• Nihilistic

  • the client denies the existence of self or part of self
  • delusional belief of being dead or didn’t exist
• Somatic

  • false belief to body function.
  • believe that they have physical ossue or medical problems
• Inappropriate affect

  • disharmony between the stimuli and the emotional reaction
• Blunted affect

  • severe reduction in emotional reaction
  • decrease of ability to express emotion through facial expression or voice tone
• Apathy

  • dulled emotional tone
  • lack of motivation and interest
• Bradykinesia

  • slowness of all voluntary movement including speech.
• Amnesia

  • inability to recall past events
• Deja vu

  • feeling of having been to place which one has not yet visited
• Jamais vu

  • feeling of not having been to a place which one has visited
• Elation (euphoria)

  • feeling of high degree of confidence, boastfulness and joy with increase motor activity