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Signs and Symptoms of Mental Disorder Flashcards

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Consciousness

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State of awareness

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Apperception

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Perception modified by one’s own emotions and thoughts.

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Sensorium

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State of functioning of special senses

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A. Disturbances of Consciousness Organic Pathology

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  1. Disorientation
  2. Clouding of Consciousness
  3. Stupor
  4. Delirium
  5. Coma
  6. Coma Vigil
  7. Twilight State
  8. Somnolence
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Disorientation

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Disturbance of orientation in time, place, or person.

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Clouding of Consciousness

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Incomplete clear mindedness with disturbance in perception.

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Stupor

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lack of reaction to an awareness of surroundings

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Delirium

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Bewildered reaction associated with fear and hallucinations

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Coma

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Profound degree of unconsciousness

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Coma Vigil

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Coma in which patient is asleep but ready to be aroused.

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Twilight State

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disturbed consciousness with hallucination

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Somnolence

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abnormal drowsiness

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B. Disturbances in ATTENTION

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  1. Distractibility
  2. Selective Inattention
  3. Hypervigilance
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Attention

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the amount of EFFORT EXERTED in focusing portions of experience

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Distractibility

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inability to concentrate attention

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Selective Inattention

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blocking out those things that generate anxiety

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Hypervigilance

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EXCESSIVE ATTENTION AND FOCUS

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C. Disturbance in SUGGESTIBILITY

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complaint and uncritical response to an idea or influence

  1. Folie a deux
  2. Hypnosis
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Folie a deux /Folie a trois

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communicate emotional illness between two or more person’s

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Hypnosis

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artificially induced modification of consciousness

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II. EMOTION

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the complex feeling with psychic, somatic, and behavioral components related to affect and mood

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A. AFFECT

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the expression of emotion as observed by others

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Types of Affect

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  1. Inappropriate Affect- dis harmony between the emotional feeling tone and idea accompanying it.
  2. Blunt Affect- Affect disturbance manifested by a severe reduction in the intensity of externalized feeling tone.
  3. Flat Affect- absence of any signs of affective expression.
  4. Labile Affect- rapid and abrupt changes in emotional feeling tone
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B. MOOD

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sustained emotion, subjectively experienced and reported

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Types of MOOD

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  1. Dysphoric Mood- unpleasant
  2. Euthymic Mood- normal range
  3. Expansive Mood- expression without restraint
  4. Irritable Mood- easily annoyed
  5. Mood Swing- oscillation between euphoria and depression
  6. Elevated Mood- air of confidence
  7. Euphoria- intense elation
  8. Ecstacy- intense rapture
  9. Depression- psychopathological feeling of sadness
  10. Anhedonia- loss of interest and withdrawal
  11. Grief- sadness of real loss
  12. Alexithymia- difficulty I’m describing emotions
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C. Other Emotions

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  1. Anxiety- feeling of apprehension
  2. Free-Floating Anxiety- unfocused fear
  3. Fear- anxiety cause by recognized and realistic danger
  4. Agitation- severe anxiety associated with motor restlessness
  5. Tension- increase motor and psychological activity-unpleasant
  6. Panic- intense attracts of anxiety
  7. Apathy- dulled emotional tone
  8. Ambivalence- coexistence of two opposing impulses
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D. Physiological Disturbances Associated with Mood

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  1. Anorexia- loss of decrease of appetite
  2. Hyperphagia- increase in appetite
  3. Insomnia- diminished ability to sleep
    • Initial
    •Middle
    •Terminal
  4. Hypersomnia- excessive sleeping
  5. Diurnal Variation- mood is regularly worst in the morning.
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III. Motor Behavior (Conation)

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aspect of psyche that includes impulses, motivations, wishes, drives, instincts, craving as expressed by behavior or moto activity

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Echopraxia

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pathological imitation of movements if one person by another

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Catatonia

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motor anomalies

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Types of Catatonia

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a. Catalepsy- immobile position
b. Catatonic Excitement- purposeless motor activity
c. Catatonic Stupor- markedly slowed motor activity
d. Catatonic Rigidity- voluntary assumption of Ridgid posture
e. Waxy flexibility- the patient can be molded into position

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Negativism

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motiveless resistance to all attempts to be moved

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Cataplexy

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temporary loss of muscle tone

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Automatism

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automatic performance of an act

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Command Automatism

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automatic following of suggestions

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Mutism

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Voiceless without structural abnormalities

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Overactivity

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a. Psychomotor Agitation- excessive motor and cognitive overactivity
b. TIC- involuntary, spasmodic motor movement
c. Somnambolism- motor activity during sleep
d. Compulsion- uncontrollable impulse to perform an act repetitively

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Types of COMPULSION

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•Dipsomania- compulsion to drink alcohol
•Kleptomania- compulsion to steal
•Nymphomania- excessive need for coitus in a woman
•Satyriasis- excessive need for coitus in a man
•Trichotillomania- compulsion to pull out one’s hair.
•Ritual- compulsive in nature

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Hypoactivity

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decrease motor activity and cognitive activity

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Mimicry

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simple imitation motor activity

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Acting Out

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direct expression of unconscious with impulse action

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IV. Thinking

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goal directed flow of ideas, symbols, and associations initiated by problem

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A. Specific Disturbances in form of thought

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  1. Neologism- new words created
  2. Word Salad- mixture of words or phrases
  3. Circumstantiality- indirect speech that is delayed but gets to desired goal
  4. Tangentiality- inability to have goal directed association of thoughts
  5. Preservation- persisting response to prior stimulus
  6. Verbigeration- meaningless repetition
  7. Echolalia- psychological repeating of words of one person by another
  8. Condensation- fusion of various concepts
  9. Derailment- sudden deviation in trail of thoughts w/o blocking
  10. Flight of Ideas- constant shifting from one idea to another
  11. Clang Association- association of words similar in sound
  12. Blocking- abrupt interruption in train of thinking
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B. Specific Disturbance in CONTENT OF THOUGHT

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  1. Poverty of Content- thought that gives little information
  2. Overvalued Idea- unreasonable, sustained belief
  3. Delusion- false belief
  4. Trend of Thought- centering of thought content in a particular idea
  5. Ecomania- pathological self preoccupation
  6. Monomania- preoccupation with a single object
  7. Hypochondria- exaggerated concern over one’s health
  8. Obsession- irresistible thought or feeling that cannot be eliminated
  9. Compulsion- need to act in an impulse, if resisted produces anxiety
  10. Coprolalia- compulsive adherence of obscene words
  11. Phobia- exaggerated and pathological dread of specific type of stimulus
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Bizarre Delusion

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very strange belief

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Systematized Delusion

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False belief united by a single event

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Mood- Congruent Delusion

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delusion with mood appropriate content

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Nihilistic Delusion

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false feeling that others or the world is non-existent or ending

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Delusion of Poverty

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false belief that one is bereft of all material possessions

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Somatic Delusion

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false belief involving functioning of one’s body

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Paranoid Delusion

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Delusion of reference, control and grandeur

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Delusion of Persecution

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false belief that patient is being harassed

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Delusion of Grandeur

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Exaggerated conception of one’s importance, power, or identity

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Delusion of Reference

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false belief that the behavior or others refers to oneself

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Delusion of Self Accusation

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False feeling of remorse and guilt

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Delusion of Control

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false feeling that one’s will or feelings are being controlled by external forces

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Thought Withdrawal

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Delusion that one’s thoughts are being removed by others

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Thought Insertion

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Delusion that thoughts are being implanted by others

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Thought Broadcasting

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Delusion that one’s thoughts can be heard by others

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Thought Control

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Delusion that one’s thoughts are being controlled by others

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Delusion of Infidelity

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false belief derived from pathological jealousy

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Erotomania

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delusional belief of women that a man is deeply in love and her CLEREMBAULT’S SYNDROME

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Pseudologia Fantastica

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Patient belief in reality of his fantasies and acts on them

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Simple Phobia

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dread of discrete object

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Social Phobia

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dread of public humiliation

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Acrophobia

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dread of high places

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Agoraphobia

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dread of open places

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Algophobia

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Dread of pain

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Claustrophobia

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dread of close places

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Xenophobia

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dread of strangers

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Xoophobia

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Dread of animals

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Astraphobia

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dread of storms

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Hematophobia

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Dread of blood

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Monophobia

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dread of being alone

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Mysophobia

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dread of germs

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Nectophobia

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Dread of darkness

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Ochlophobia

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Dread of crowds

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Pyrophobia

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Dread of fire

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Macropsia

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Objects are seen larger

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Micropsia

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Objects are seen smaller

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Depersonalization

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subject senses of being unreal

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Derealization

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subjective sense that environment is strange or unreal

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V. Speech

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ideas, thoughts, feelings, expressed through use of words

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A. Disturbance in Speech

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  1. Poverty of Speech- restriction in the amount of speech used
  2. Dysprosody- Loss of normal speech melody
  3. Dysarthria- difficulty in articulation, not in words finding
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VI. Perception

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transferring physical stimulation into psychological information

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A. Disturbance of Perception

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  1. Hallucination- false sensory perception not associated with real external stimuli
  2. Illusion- misperception of misinterpretation of real external sensory stimuli
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Types of Hallucination

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•Hynagogic Hallucination- false sensory perception while falling asleep
•Hynopompic Hallucination- false perception occuring while awakening
Auditory Hallucination- false perception of sound
•Visual Hallucination- false perception in sight
Olfactory Hallucination- false perception in smell
•Gustatory Hallucination- false perception of taste
•Tactile Hallucination- false perception of touch
•Lilliputian Hallucination- false perception which objects are seen as reduced in size
•Hallucinosis- associated with chronic alcohol abuse

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Formication

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crawling sensation under the skin

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Phantom Limb

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sensation on amputated leg

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B. Disturbances associated with Organic Mental Disorder

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Inability to recognize and interpret the significance of sensory impressions

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Anosognosia

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Inability to recognize illness

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Autotopagnosia

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Inability to recognize a body part

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Visual Agnosia

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Inability to recognize objects or person

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Asterognosis

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Inability to recognize objects by touch

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Prospagnosia

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Inability to recognize faces

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Apraxia

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Inability to carry out specific task

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