Common Psychotic Signs and Symptoms

Question 1

Something seems to be different from what it is

Answer 1

Illusion

Question 2

False perception as the pertinent external stimuli is absent

Answer 2

Hallucination

Question 3

Types of hallucination

Answer 3

Visual, Auditory, Tactile, Gustatory, Olfactory

Question 4

Most common type of hallucination

Answer 4

Auditory

Question 5

Word or phrases that has meaning only to the person using it; coining of new words

Answer 5

Neologism

Question 6

Delay in getting the point because of the interpolation of unnecessary details and irrelevant remarks

Answer 6

Circumstantiality

Question 7

Incoherent mixture of words and phrases

Answer 7

Word Salad

Question 8

Pathological repetition of a sentence or word, senseless repetition of a goal-directed action, a particular response, such as words

Answer 8

Preservation

Question 9

Involuntary repetition of sounds and language; parrot-like

Answer 9

Echolalia

Question 10

Thoughts follow each other rapidly and there is no general direction of thinking

Answer 10

Flight of ideas

Question 11

Jumping from one idea to another, with increasingly more fragmented connections between the thought

Answer 11

Looseness of association

Question 12

Putting words together because of how they sound instead of what they mean

Answer 12

Clang Association

Question 13

Fixed false belief based on an inaccurate interpretation of an external reality despite evidence to the contrary

Answer 13

Delusion

Question 14

Delusion that believes that one’s sexual partner is unfaithful

Answer 14

Delusional Jealousy

Question 15

Delusion that is impossible, unrelated
to normal life, and not understandable

Answer 15

Bizarre

Question 16

Delusion that someone of higher status such as a movie star is in love with the individual

Answer 16

Erotomaniac

Question 17

Delusion that individual has a great power, knowledge, or inflated self-worth

Answer 17

Grandiose

Question 18

Delusion that involves bodily functions and sensations

Answer 18

Somatic

Question 19

Delusion that others are harrassing, attacking, conspiring against, or obstructing the individual’s pursuit of long-term goals

Answer 19

Persecutory

Question 20

Combination of various types of delusions

Answer 20

Mixed

Question 21

Delusion that the individual’s thoughts are not their own but being placed in their mind by others

Answer 21

Thought insertion

Question 22

Delusion that one’s thoughts are being projected and perceived by others

Answer 22

Thought broadcasting

Question 23

Types of Affect

Answer 23

Blunted, Restricted, Labile, Flat, Shallow

Question 24

2 opposing emotions; e.g. love and hate toward a person, object, or idea

Answer 24

Ambivalence

Question 25

Lack of interest in life activities

Answer 25

Apathy

Question 26

Feeling detached from one’s body, mind, feelings, sensation

Answer 26

Depersonalization

Question 27

Feeling of being detached from surroundings

Answer 27

Derealization

Question 28

Involuntary repetition of actions

Answer 28

Echopraxia

Question 29

Tendency to remain in an immobile posture; decreased response to stimuli

Answer 29

Waxy Flexibility

Question 30

Fabricated stories that fill in gaps in a person’s memory

Answer 30

Confabulation

Question 31

Unable to recall autobiographical memory associated with traumatic event

Answer 31

Dissociative Amnesia

Question 32

Unable to store new memory but able to recall data that happened previously

Answer 32

Anterograde Amnesia

Question 33

Unable to access memories of events that happened in the past

Answer 33

Retrograde Amnesia

Question 34

One has lived through present situation before

Answer 34

Deja Vu

Question 35

Familiar does not seem familiar

Answer 35

Jamais Vu