Descriptive psychology

Question 1

What is an overvalued idea?

Answer 1

A belief that is neither delusional nor obsessional but influences a persons life to a notable extent

Question 2

When does crowding of thoughts occur?

Answer 2

Schizophrenia

Question 3

What is stereotypy?

Answer 3

Repetitive, non-goal directed motor activity

Question 4

The doppleganger phenomenon is best described as what type of disturbance?

Answer 4

Ideational disturbance

Question 5

In which syndrome are pseudohallucinations seen?

Answer 5

Ganser

Question 6

What is mitgehen?

Answer 6

A form of extreme cooperation in which a patient moves their body in the direction of the slightest pressure on the part of the examiner. Once the pressure stops, the body moves back to the original position.

Question 7

How is concrete thinking tested?

Answer 7

Proverb testing

Question 8

Retardation in depressive disorder is a disturbance of what?

Answer 8

Disturbed stream of thought

Question 9

When the word pink is considered, linked words such as barbie are activated in the brain. What is the called?

Answer 9

Direct priming

Question 10

What is catalepsy?

Answer 10

Patient maintains unusual posture for long period of time with no resistance to passive movement

Question 11

What is advertance?

Answer 11

Where schizophrenic patient turns fully towards doctor when spoken to

Question 12

What is aversion?

Answer 12

Where schizophrenic patient turns completely away from examiner

Question 13

What is automatic obedience?

Answer 13

Patient carries out every instruction regardless of the consequence

Question 14

What are some characterisitics of schizophrenic auditory hallucinations?

Answer 14

• Increase in background noise reduces severity
• Voices have different accent but same language
• Never continuous, always episodic

Question 15

What is a mannerism?

Answer 15

A repetitive act that is apparently goal-directed but not necessary or required

Question 16

What is a perceptual distortion?

Answer 16

Change in perception resulting from a change in intensity and quality of the stimulus or the spatial form of the perception

Question 17

What is dereistic thinking?

Answer 17

Unrealistic thinking

Question 18

What are some formal thought disorders described by Carl Schenider?

Answer 18

Fusion 
Omission 
Substitution 
Derailment 
Drivelling

Question 19

What is astasia-abasia?

Answer 19

Inability to walk or stand in a normal manner - gait appears bizarre and is not suggestive of organic lesion

Question 20

What condition is astasia-abasia a symptom of?

Answer 20

Conversion disorder

Question 21

What is motor perseveration?

Answer 21

An example would be a patient being asked to draw a square and drawing it, then asked to draw a circle but continues drawing squares

Question 22

What is pseudologia fantastica?

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Pathological lying - may believe their own stories

Question 23

What conditions is pseudologia fantastica common in?

Answer 23

Personality disorders - antisocial or hysterical

Question 24

What is couvade syndrome?

Answer 24

A conversion symptom seen in partners of expectant mothers during their pregnancy - symptoms mimic pregnancy symptoms

Question 25

What is jamais vu?

Answer 25

That knowledge that an event has occurred before but is not currently associated with the feelings of familiarity

Question 26

What is deja entendu?

Answer 26

The feeling of auditory recognition

Question 27

What is deja pense?

Answer 27

A new thought recognised as having previously occurred

Question 28

Commonest cause of stupor in psych inpatient unit?

Answer 28

Depression

Question 29

Where is a true hallucination perceived?

Answer 29

External space, outside of conscious control

Question 30

Where are pseudohallucinations experienced?

Answer 30

Inner subjective space

Question 31

Auditory hallucinations with clear consciousness are least likely due to

Answer 31

Temporal lobe epilepsy

Question 32

What is anhedonia?

Answer 32

Total inability to experience pleasure

Question 33

Made impulse

Answer 33

Owns up to action but not the impulse behind it

Question 34

What are the most common hallucinations in alcoholic hallucinosis?

Answer 34

Unstructured sounds or voices that may be characteristically malign and threatening

Question 35

How long do the hallucinations in alcoholic hallucinosis tend to last for?

Answer 35

A few days

Question 36

Diffrence between hallucinations in delirium tremens and alcoholic hallucinosis

Answer 36

Alcoholic hallucinosis have a clear sensorium

Question 37

Features of pure word blindness

Answer 37

Reduced reading comprehension but patient can speak and understand spoken word They can write spontaneously and to diction

Question 38

What are the 2 stages of delusional perception?

Answer 38

Normal perception and delusional significance

Question 39

What is dysmorphophobia?

Answer 39

Overvalued idea where patient believes one aspect of body is abnormal or deformed Sometimes can reach delusional intensity

Question 40

Which phenomena is eyo-syntotic?

Answer 40

Delusions - patient experiencing them does not feel uncomfortable by them

Question 41

What is a freudian slip otherwise known as?

Answer 41

Parapraxis

Question 42

What are 3rd person hallucinations?

Answer 42

Auditory hallucinations where patients hear voices talking about themselves, referring to them in the 3rd person

Question 43

What can improve an essential tremor?

Answer 43

Alcohol

Question 43

What can improve an essential tremor?

Answer 43

Alcohol

Question 44

What are teichoscopic hallucinations otherwise known as?

Answer 44

Scintillating scotoma

Question 45

What do approximate answers suggest a problem with?

Answer 45

Thought form

Question 46

What are metonyms?

Answer 46

Imprecise expressions that are used in place of more exact words

Question 47

What are most cases of dysmorphophobia associated with?

Answer 47

Major mood disorder

Question 48

What is the type token ratio?

Answer 48

Measure of vocabulary variation within a written text or persons speech - reduced in schizophrenic speech

Question 49

EEG in hypnogognic hallucination

Answer 49

Flow of alpha rhythm at time of hallucination

Question 50

What is the commonest psychiatric cause of autoscopy?

Answer 50

Depression

Question 51

What is dysmegalopsia?

Answer 51

A change in the perceived shape of an object

Question 52

If somebody has rigidity at rest but carries out voluntary movements normally, do they have catatonia?

Answer 52

Yes

Question 53

What is reduced symbolic thinking a feature of?

Answer 53

Alexithymia

Question 54

Flashback phenomenon is reported after taking what type of drug?

Answer 54

Hallucinogens

Question 55

What are pareidolic illusions?

Answer 55

Meaningful percepts produced when experiencing a poorly defined stimulus

Question 56

When does a hypnagognic hallucination occur?

Answer 56

When falling asleep

Question 57

Is thought blocking a first rank symptom?

Answer 57

no

Question 58

Definition of age disorientation

Answer 58

Misstating one's age by 5 or more years

Question 59

What is asyndesis?

Answer 59

Lack of genuine causal link in speech

Question 60

What is palilalia?

Answer 60

Compulsive involuntary repetition of semantically acceptable word or phrase spoken by the patient themselves

Question 61

What is logoclonia?

Answer 61

Repetition of last syllable

Question 62

What condition does logoclonia occur in?

Answer 62

Parkinson's

Question 63

What is verbigeration?

Answer 63

Repetition of senseless sound, syllables or words

Question 64

When does vebigeration occur?

Answer 64

Expressive aphasia | Catatonic schizophrenia

Question 65

What is the best predictor of persistence of delusional beliefs?

Answer 65

Diagnosis of schizophrenia

Question 66

Delusions of motor control are thought to be related to what

Answer 66

Failure to predict sensory feedback of one's own movements

Question 67

Depersonalisation is often described as as __ phenomenon

Answer 67

As if - use as if to describe their experience

Question 68

Which thought disorder is more common in schizophrenia than mania?

Answer 68

Derailment Thought blocking To some extent, tangentiality and poverty of speech

Question 69

Which thought disorder occurs when figure-ground differentiation apparently fails?

Answer 69

Circumstantality

Question 70

What is paraschemazia?

Answer 70

Distortion of body image

Question 71

What are the 4 types of primary delusions?

Answer 71

Delusional mood Delusional perception Delusional memory Autochthonous delusions

Question 72

What is pathological depersonalisation associated with?

Answer 72

Intense affective change

Question 73

How is pure word deafness characterised?

Answer 73

Patient able to speak, read and write fluently Patient unable to understand speech Hears words as sounds but cannot recognise the meaning

Question 74

Who coined the term anhedonia?

Answer 74

Ribot

Question 75

How is overinclusive thinking tested?

Answer 75

Sorting test

Question 76

When do illusions occur?

Answer 76

When the sensory perceptual threshold is reduced