Common Behavioral Signs and Symptoms Flashcards
Disturbances in perception
- Illusion
- Hallucination
- misperception of an actual external stimuli.
Illusion
false sensory perception in the absence of external stimuli.
Hallucination
Disturbances in thinking
- Neologism
- Circumstantiality
- Word salad
- Verbigeration
- Perseveration
- Echolalia
- Flight of ideas
- Looseness of association
- Clang association
- Delusion
- Thought broadcasting
- Thought insertion
- Thought withdrawal
– pathological coining of new words.
Neologism
Example: Pt. says he’ll give you bread to buy something. Pt. substitute the word bread, instead of using the word money.
over inclusion of details.
Circumstantiality
incoherent mixture of words and phrases.
Word salad
meaningless reception of words or phrases.
Verbigeration
persistence of a response to a previous question.
Perseveration
pathological repetition of words of others.
Echolalia
shifting of one topic form one subject to another in a somewhat related way.
Flight of Ideas
shifting of a topic from one subject to another in a completely unrelated way.
Looseness of Association
the sound of the words gives direction to the flow of thought.
Clang Association
false belief which is inconsistent with one’s knowledge and culture and cannot be corrected by reasons.
Delusion
a delusional belief that others can hear or know what the client is thinking.
Thought broadcasting
a delusional belief that others are putting ideas to client’s head
Thought insertion
a delusional belief that others are taking the client’s thoughts away and the client is powerless to stop it.
Thought Withdrawal
Disturbances of Affect
- Inappropriate affect
- Flat affect
- Apathy
- Blunted affect
- Ambivalence
- Depersonalization
- Derealization
disharmony between the stimuli and the emotional reaction.
Inappropriate affect
absence or near absence of emotional reaction.
Flat affect
dulled emotional tone
Apathy
severe reduction in emotional reaction.
Blunted affect
presence of two opposing feelings.
Ambivalence
feeling of strangeness towards one’s self
Depersonalization
feeling of strangeness towards the environment
Derealization
Disturbances in Motor Activity
- Echopraxia
- Waxy flexibility
the pathological imitation of posture/action of others.
Echopraxia
maintaining the desired position for long periods of time without discomfort.
Waxy flexibility
Disturbances in Memory
- Confabulation
- Amnesia
- Anterograde amnesia
- Retrograde amnesia
- Déjà vu
- Jamais vu
filling in memory gap.
Confabulation
inability to recall past events.
Amnesia
loss memory of the immediate past.
Anterograde amnesia
loss of memory of the distant past.
Retrograde amnesia
feeling of having been to place which one has not yet visited.
Déjà vu
feeling of not having been to a place which one has visited.
Jamais vu
