Cognitive Concepts Underlying Psychiatry 15.02.23

Question 1

What are gestalt theories?

Answer 1

How our brain perceives different shapes and patterns

Question 2

What is an illusion?

Answer 2

An instance of a wrong or misinterpreted perception of a sensory experience

Question 3

What are hallucinations?

Answer 3

Experiences involving the apparent perception of something not present

Question 4

What is a perceptual set?

Answer 4

The psychological factors that determine how you perceive your environment

Question 5

What are some determining factors of a perceptual set? (IMPORTANT)

Answer 5

Context
Culture
Expectations (paranoia worried about things around you)
Mood and motivation (derogatory in nature)

Question 6

What is a sensation?

Answer 6

A mental process resulting from the immediate external stimulation of a sense organ

Question 7

What is perception?

Answer 7

The ability to become aware and interpret something following sensory stimulation

Question 8

What processing type is hallucinations

Answer 8

Top down

Question 9

What is top down processing?

Answer 9

This is perception

Question 10

What is bottom up processing?

Answer 10

This is sensation

Question 11

What can cause hallucinations

Answer 11

ANSWER ON POWERPOINT GET IT!!

Question 12

What psychiatric illnesses can cause hallucinations (3)?

Answer 12

Schizophrenia
Depression with psychosis
Bipolar affective disorder

Question 13

What is the bio-psycho- social model?

Answer 13

• medication
• mood
• social
  Interactions