general appearance and motor behavior assessment

Question 1

Repeated purposeless behaviors often indicative of anxiety, such as drumming fingers, twisting locks of hair, or tapping the foot

Answer 1

AUTOMATISM

Question 2

overall slowed movements

Answer 2

PSYCHOMOTOR RETARDATION

Question 3

: maintenance of posture or position over time even when it is awkward or uncomfortable

Answer 3

WAXY FLEXIBILITY

Question 4

refers to the client’s pervasive and enduring emotional state.

Answer 4

MOOD

Question 5

the outward expression of the client’s emotional state.

Answer 5

AFFECT

Question 6

showing little or a slow-to-respond facial expression

Answer 6

BLUNTED AFFECT

Question 7

showing no facial expression

Answer 7

FLAT AFFECT

Question 8

displaying a full range of emotional expressions

Answer 8

BROAD AFFECT

Question 9

When the client exhibits unpredictable and rapid mood swings from depressed and crying to euphoria with no apparent stimuli, the
mood is called

Answer 9

LABILE (rapidly changing)

Question 10

client’s inaccurate interpretation that general events are personally directed to him or her, such as hearing a speech on the news and
believing the message had personal meaning

Answer 10

IDEAS OF REFERENCE

Question 11

excessive amount and rate of speech composed of fragmented or unrelated ideas

Answer 11

Flight of ideas

Question 12

disorganized thinking that jumps from one idea to another with little or no evident relation between the thoughts

Answer 12

LOOSE ASSOCIATIONS

Question 13

stopping abruptly in the middle of a sentence or train of thought; sometimes unable to continue the idea

Answer 13

THOUGHT BLOCKING

Question 14

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

Answer 14

THOUGHT BROADCASTING

Question 15

(false sensory perceptions or perceptual experiences that do not really exist).

Answer 15

HALLUCINATIONS