General Symptoms

Question 1

Inability to remain calm, still, and free of anxiety.

Answer 1

Akathisia

Question 2

Inability to remember either isolated parts of the past or one’s entire past; may be caused by brain damage or severe emotional trauma.

Answer 2

Amnesia

Question 3

Absence of the ability to experience either pleasure or joy, even in the face of causative events.

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Anhedonia

Question 4

Paralysis or immobility from psychological or emotional rather than physical causes.

Answer 4

Catatonia

Question 5

Effort to conceal a gap in memory by fabricating detailed, often believable stories. Associated with alcohol abuse.

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Confabulation

Question 6

Unconscious mechanism for psychological coping, adjustment, or self-preservation in the face of stress or a threat. Examples include denial of an unpleasant situation or condition and projection of intolerable aspects onto another individual.

Answer 6

Defense Mechanism

Question 7

Condition of confused, unfocused, irrational agitation. In mental disorders, agitation and confusion may also be accompanied by a more intense disorientation, incoherence, or fear, and illusions, hallucinations, and delusions.

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Delirium

Question 8

Persistent belief in a demonstrable untruth or a provable inaccurate perception despite clear evidence to the contrary.

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Delusion

Question 9

Mental disorder in which the individual experiences a progressive loss of memory, personality alterations, confusion, loss of touch with reality, and stupor (seeming unawareness of, and disconnection with, one’s surroundings).

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Dementia

Question 10

Repetition of words or phrases spoken by others.

Answer 10

Echolalia

Question 11

Any unreal sensory perception that occurs with no external cause.

Answer 11

Hallucination

Question 12

Inaccurate sensory perception that include mirages and interpreting music or wind as voices.

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Illusion

Question 13

Normal psychological impulse drive associated with sensuality, expressions of desire, or creativity. Abnormality occurs only when such drives are excessively heightened or depressed.

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Libido

Question 14

Disassociation with or impaired perception of reality; may be accompanied by hallucinations, delusions, incoherence, akathisia, and/or disorganized behavior.

Answer 14

Psychosis

Question 15

Sleepwalking.

Answer 15

Somnambulism