Patterns of Sensory Input

Question 1

False sensory perception. Can arise from any of the senses and are classified accordingly.

Answer 1

Hallucination

Question 2

The most common type, hearing sounds that do not exist; most commonly the sounds are voices talking to or about the client.

Answer 2

Auditory Hallucinations

Question 3

Auditory hallucinations that involve one or multiple voices telling the client to take action, sometimes to hurt him/herself or others.

Answer 3

Command Hallucinations

Question 4

Seeing things that do not exist at all, such as a dead person or distortions of that which is seen such as seeing a monster instead of a nurse. Second most common type.

Answer 4

Visual Hallucinations

Question 5

Smelling something that does not exist in the immediate environment such as feces or something rotting.

Answer 5

Olfactory Hallucinations

Question 6

The false feeling of something upon the self, such as bugs or snakes crawling on one’s skin or electricity coursing through the body. (Common in alcohol withdrawal syndrome)

Answer 6

Tactile Hallucinations

Question 7

A sense that food tastes like something else, most commonly metallic or bitter or like a specific substance like feces.

Answer 7

Gustatory Hallucinations

Question 8

Occurs when the client is motionless, but reports feeling as if the body is moving. Occasionally, the bodily movement is something unusual such as feeling as if the body is floating above the ground.

Answer 8

Kinesthetic Hallucinations