Clin Med Vocab

Question 1

Awareness of one’s own illness or situation

Answer 1

Insight

Question 2

Ability to anticipate the consequences of one’s behavior and make decisions to safeguard your well-being and that of others.

Answer 2

Judgment

Question 3

Pauses between questions and answers

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Latency

Question 4

Provide unnecessary detail but eventually get to the point.

Answer 4

Circumstantial

Question 5

Move from thought to thought that relate in some way but never get to the point; wandering from topic and never returning to original point.

Answer 5

Tangential

Question 6

Illogical shifting between unrelated topics

Answer 6

Loose

Question 7

Groupings of words (usually rhyming) based on similar sounding sounds, regardless of logical grouping.

Answer 7

Clang associations

Question 8

Linear progression of thought without veering from subject at hand

Answer 8

Goal-directed/Logical

Question 9

Quickly moving from one idea to another - often seen with mania.

Answer 9

Flight of ideas

Question 10

Thoughts are interrupted; abrupt cessation of speech without explanation in the middle of a sentence.

Answer 10

Thought blocking

Question 11

Repetition of words, phrases, ideas

Answer 11

Preservation

Question 12

Randomly spoken words

Answer 12

Word salad

Question 13

Suicidal or homicidal ideation, preservations, obsessions, compulsions

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Preoccupations

Question 14

Misinterpretations of environment

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Illusions

Question 15

Misinterpretation of incidents and events in the outside world having direct personal reference to the patient; TV sending them messages

Answer 15

Ideas of reference

Question 16

False sensory perceptions; can be auditory, visual tactile, olfactory

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Hallucinations

Question 17

Feelings the outer environment feels real

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Derealization

Question 18

Sensation of unreality concerning oneself or parts of oneself

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Depersonalization

Question 19

Fixed, false beliefs firmly held in spite of contradictory evidence

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Delusions

Question 20

Name the delusion type – conspired against, spied on, harassed; others trying to cause harm

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Persecutory delusion

Question 21

Name the delusion type – patient has a physical defect

Answer 21

Somatic delusion

Question 22

Name the delusion type – thinks spouse/love is being unfaithful

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Jealous delusion

Question 23

Name the delusion type – someone/people are in love with them

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Erotomanic delusion

Question 24

Name the delusion type – conviction that they have some great talent/insight or some great discovery; inflated sense of self-worth, power, wealth

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Grandiose delusion

Question 25

Name the delusion type -- unrelated events apply to them

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Reference delusion

Question 26

Name the delusion type -- no one delusional theme dominates

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Mixed delusion

Question 27

Name the delusion type -- cannot be clearly determined

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Unspecified delusion

Question 28

Rapidly speaking, sometimes frantic. Makes it difficult for people listening to make sense of what is being said; hard to interrupt; also referred to as "push" of speech

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Pressured speech

Question 29

Absolutely no feeling or emotion regardless of the circumstances

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Flat affect

Question 30

Lowered level of intensity of emotional expression; will show little feeling even in emotional situations. Common in schizophrenia.

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Blunted affect

Question 31

Emotional expression reduced in range and intensity; show some feeling and emotion but less than expected.

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Restricted affect

Question 32

Rapid changes in emotions that don't seem to relate to any outside situations or seem to be inappropriate for the situation.

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Labile

Question 33

Normal display of emotion

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Euthymic

Question 34

Meaningless repetition of another person's spoken words

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Echolalia

Question 35

Making up of new words

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Neologism

Question 36

Creation of false or erroneous memories without the intent to deceive; "honest lying"; seen in Wernicke-Korsakoff syndrome and TBI.

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Confabulation

Question 37

Inner restlessness with inability to stay still

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Akathisia

Question 38

Twisting/repetitive movement or abnormal fixed posturing

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Dystonia