Chapter 15 - Final Flashcards
False personal beliefs that are inconsistent with the person’s intelligence or cultural background
Delusion
False sensory perceptions not associated with real external stimuli, may involve any of the 5 senses
Hallucinations
____ is most commonly there are voices, but the individual may report clicks, rushing noises, music, and other noises
Auditory hallucinations
______ may consist of formed images, such as of people, or unformed images such as flashes of light
Visual hallucinations
______ is false perceptions of touch, often of something crawling under the skin
Tactile hallucinations
______ is the sensation that something is crawling on or under the skin. Part of tactile hallucinations
Formications
____ is the false perception of taste. Most commonly described as unpleasant tastes
Gustatory Hallucinations
_____ is the false perception of the sense of smell
Olfactory hallucinations
________ type of abnormal “form of thought process” –> individual is unaware that the topics are unconnected. Speech in which ideas shift from one unrelated subject to another
Associative Looseness
________ type of abnormal “form of thought process” –> invention of new words that are meaningless to others but have symbolic meaning to the psychotic person
Neologisms
________ type of abnormal “form of thought process” –> literal interpretations of the environment, represents regression to an earlier level of cognitive development
Concrete Thinking
________ type of abnormal “form of thought process” –> Choice of words is governed by sounds. Often takes the form of rhyming
Clang Associations
________ type of abnormal “form of thought process” –> A group of words that are put together random without any logical connection
Word Salad
________ type of abnormal “form of thought process” –> the individual delays in reaching the point of communication because of unnecessary and tedious details
Circumstantiality
________ type of abnormal “form of thought process” –> the person never really gets to the point of the communication
Tangentially