MSE Glossary Terms

Question 1

Attending to internal stimuli

Answer 1

Behavior indicating person is paying attention to hallucinations —- can manifest by inappropriate emotional responses or looking around the room

Question 2

Circumstantial

Answer 2

Gives excessive detail in answers to questions; takes forever to get to the point

Question 3

Delusion

Answer 3

Fixed, false belief based on incorrect inferences about reality that is held in spite of evidence to the contrary

Question 4

Delusions of reference

Answer 4

The feeling that events, objects or other persons have a particular and unusual significance; public events have private meaning only for the patient

Question 5

Depersonalization

Answer 5

Change in perception of the self - feeling unreal or detached from the body; temporary loss of one’s own reality, may manifest as inability to feel emotion, numbness or altered sense of time

Question 6

Derealization

Answer 6

Change in awareness of the external world; things don’t look or feel normal