Thought patterns

Question 1

What is a hallucination?

Answer 1

Perception in the absence of an external stimulus

Question 2

What is an illusion?

Answer 2

Misinterpretation of real stiumli

Question 3

What is a delusion?

Answer 3

Fixed (often false) belief that is inappropriate to the patient’s socio-cultural background.

Question 4

What is an overvalued idea?

Answer 4

Unreasonable, sustained belief that is held with less than delusional intensity

Question 5

What is psychosis?

Answer 5

Thoughts, affective response or ability to recognize reality and the ability to communicate and relate to others are sufficiently impaired to interfere with a person’s daily function

Question 6

What are the two most common forms of psychosis?

Answer 6

Delusions

Hallucinations

Question 7

What are some symptoms associated with interpretation of reality?

Answer 7

Delusions
Hallucinations
Illusions

Question 8

What are some symptoms associated with train of thought?

Answer 8

Flight of ideas
Pressure of speech
Loosening of association
Knight's move thinking
Tangential thinking

Question 9

What is flight of ideas?

Answer 9

Jumps from topic to topic, but with recognizable links such as rhyming, punning or environmental distractions

Question 10

What is pressure of speech?

Answer 10

Very rapid speech with little cohesion between words or topics

Question 11

What is loosening of association?

Answer 11

Patient’s speech is muddled, illogical, difficult to follow and cannot be clarified. The patient talks freely but so vaguely that no information is given.

Question 12

What is knights move thinking?

Answer 12

Jumps from topic to topic with no connection between them

Question 13

What is tangential thinking?

Answer 13

Wandering from the topic and never returning to it

Question 14

What is circumstantiality?

Answer 14

Inability to answer question without giving long winded/detailed answers

Question 15

What is a Neologism?

Answer 15

Making up new words or changing the meaning of existent ones