psych eval

Question 1

patient’s motor behavior, mannerisms, tics, stereotyped behaviors

Answer 1

overt behavior

Question 2

attitude toward examiner

Answer 2

attitude

Question 3

physical characteristics NOT content of patients speech

Answer 3

speech

Question 4

patient talking loud, rapid, stuttering - ex of?

Answer 4

description of speech

Question 5

subjective emotional experience of the patient

Answer 5

mood

Question 6

relationship of affect to mood

Answer 6

affect is objective assessment of patient’s emotional responsiveness

Question 7

can be logical vs. illogical; goal-directed vs. not

Answer 7

thinking

Question 8

thinking that includes too many irrelevant details

Answer 8

circumstantial thinkgin

Question 9

thinking that includes responding to something similar to the question, but not actually the question

Answer 9

tangential thinking

Question 10

losing track of the convo and taking a different direction without ever returning to the main point

Answer 10

tangential thinking

Question 11

loss of logical connection b/w ideas or sentences that are beign spoken

Answer 11

derailment/loose associations

Question 12

linking words together b/c they sound similar

Answer 12

clang associations

Question 13

when speaker jumps rapidly b/c loosely associated topics

Answer 13

flight of ideas

Question 14

when there is an abrupt stop of break in teh flow of ideas

Answer 14

thought blocking

Question 15

repetition of the same words/ideas over and over despite convo moving on

Answer 15

perseveration

Question 16

ideas that outside forces are influencing a patient’s mind or behvario

Answer 16

ideas of influence

Question 17

hallucination, derealization, depersonalization

Answer 17

perception

Question 18

consciousness, orientation, concentration, memory, abstract reasoning, reading/writing, visuospatial ability

Answer 18

sensorium

Question 19

does patient undersand that they have an illness

Answer 19

insight

Question 20

is the patient able to understand the likely conseuqnces of behavior and make decisions accordingly

Answer 20

judgment