Common Behavioral Signs and Symptoms

Question 1

Disturbances in perception

Answer 1

1. Illusion
2. Hallucination

Question 2

• misperception of an actual external stimuli.

Answer 2

Illusion

Question 3

false sensory perception in the absence of external stimuli.

Answer 3

Hallucination

Question 4

Disturbances in thinking

Answer 4

1. Neologism
2. Circumstantiality
3. Word salad
4. Verbigeration
5. Perseveration
6. Echolalia
7. Flight of ideas
8. Looseness of association
9. Clang association
10. Delusion
11. Thought broadcasting
12. Thought insertion
13. Thought withdrawal

Question 5

– pathological coining of new words.

Answer 5

Neologism

Example: Pt. says he’ll give you bread to buy something. Pt. substitute the word bread, instead of using the word money.

Question 6

over inclusion of details.

Answer 6

Circumstantiality

Question 7

incoherent mixture of words and phrases.

Answer 7

Word salad

Question 8

meaningless reception of words or phrases.

Answer 8

Verbigeration

Question 9

persistence of a response to a previous question.

Answer 9

Perseveration

Question 10

pathological repetition of words of others.

Answer 10

Echolalia

Question 11

shifting of one topic form one subject to another in a somewhat related way.

Answer 11

Flight of Ideas

Question 12

shifting of a topic from one subject to another in a completely unrelated way.

Answer 12

Looseness of Association

Question 13

the sound of the words gives direction to the flow of thought.

Answer 13

Clang Association

Question 14

false belief which is inconsistent with one’s knowledge and culture and cannot be corrected by reasons.

Answer 14

Delusion

Question 15

a delusional belief that others can hear or know what the client is thinking.

Answer 15

Thought broadcasting

Question 16

a delusional belief that others are putting ideas to client’s head

Answer 16

Thought insertion

Question 17

a delusional belief that others are taking the client’s thoughts away and the client is powerless to stop it.

Answer 17

Thought Withdrawal

Question 18

Disturbances of Affect

Answer 18

1. Inappropriate affect
2. Flat affect
3. Apathy
4. Blunted affect
5. Ambivalence
6. Depersonalization
7. Derealization

Question 19

disharmony between the stimuli and the emotional reaction.

Answer 19

Inappropriate affect

Question 20

absence or near absence of emotional reaction.

Answer 20

Flat affect

Question 21

dulled emotional tone

Answer 21

Apathy

Question 22

severe reduction in emotional reaction.

Answer 22

Blunted affect

Question 23

presence of two opposing feelings.

Answer 23

Ambivalence

Question 24

feeling of strangeness towards one’s self

Answer 24

Depersonalization

Question 25

feeling of strangeness towards the environment

Answer 25

Derealization

Question 26

Disturbances in Motor Activity

Answer 26

1. Echopraxia 2. Waxy flexibility

Question 27

the pathological imitation of posture/action of others.

Answer 27

Echopraxia

Question 28

maintaining the desired position for long periods of time without discomfort.

Answer 28

Waxy flexibility

Question 29

Disturbances in Memory

Answer 29

1. Confabulation 2. Amnesia 3. Anterograde amnesia 4. Retrograde amnesia 5. Déjà vu 6. Jamais vu

Question 30

filling in memory gap.

Answer 30

Confabulation

Question 31

inability to recall past events.

Answer 31

Amnesia

Question 32

loss memory of the immediate past.

Answer 32

Anterograde amnesia

Question 33

loss of memory of the distant past.

Answer 33

Retrograde amnesia

Question 34

feeling of having been to place which one has not yet visited.

Answer 34

Déjà vu

Question 35

feeling of not having been to a place which one has visited.

Answer 35

Jamais vu