Thinking Flashcards
Mental disorder
Clinically significant behavioral or psychological syndrome, associated with distress or disability, not just and expected response to a particulare event or limited to relation between person and society
Psychosis
Inability to distinguish reality from fantasy imparirmed reality testing, with the creation of a new reality
Reality testing
The objective evaluation and judgment of the world outside the self
Formal thought disorder
Disturbance in the form of thought, instead of the content of thought.
Illogical thinking
thinking containing erroneous conclusions of internal contradictions
Dereism
Mental activity not concordant with logic or experiences
Autisitc thinking
Preoccupation with inner private world
Magical thinking
A form of dereisic thought: thinking that is similar to that of the preoperation phase
Primary process
General term for thinking that is dereistic, illogical, magical, normally found in dreams, abnormally in psychosis
Neologism
new words created by the patient, often by combining syllables of other words
Word salad
Incoherent mixture of words and phrases
Circumstantiality
Indirect speech that is delayed in reaching the point but eventually gets from original point to desired goal
Tangentiality
Indirect speech that is delayed in reaching the point but eventually gets from original point to the desired goal
Perservation
Persisting response to a prior stimulus after a new stimulus has been presented, often associated with cognitive disorders
Verbigeration
Meaningless repetition of specific words or phrases
Echolalia
Psychopathological repeating of words or phrases of one person by another tends to be repetitive and persistent
Loosening of associations
Flow of thought in which ideas shift from one subject to another in a completely unrelated way
Deraliment
Gradual or sudden deviation in train of thought without blocking
Clang associations
Associations of words similar in sound, but not meaning. Words have no logical meaning
Blocking
Abrupt interruption in train of thinking before a thought or idea has finished. Brief pause -> person has no recall of what has been said
Glossolalia
The expression of a revelatory message thought unintelligible words
Poverty of content
Thought that gives little information because of vaugenes, empty repetitions
Overvalued idea
Unreasonable flase belief maintained less firmly that a delusion
Bizzare delusion
An absurd totally implausible strange false belief
