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33 Cards in this Set
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catatonic
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remaining totally immobile
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posturing
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assuming inappropriate or bizarre positions
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compulsions
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insistent, repetitive unwanted actions
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perseveration
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mechanical repetition of words, thoughts
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pressured
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highly accelerated rapid speech
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loose associations
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absence of logical connections between thoughts
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flight of ideas
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rapidly jumping from one though to another with minimal links
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tangential
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talking around main point
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word salad
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unconnected words and phrases without meaning or logic
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thought blocking
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stopping suddenly in the middle of verbalizing a though and staring into space
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neologism
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making up new words only speaker understands
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labile
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emotions that change quickly and unpredictably
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flat affect
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no demonstration of any feeling
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blunted affect
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constricted display of emotions
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anhedonia
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absence of any pleasure
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inappropriate affect
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emotions displayed not fitting with topic discussed
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ambivalence
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contradictory feelings experienced simultaneously
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hallucinations
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sensory perceptions without external stimuli
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illusions
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misinterpretations of real external sensory stimuli
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delusions
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false, fixed beliefs not alterable by logical explanations
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obsessions
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unwanted, distressing recurring thoughts
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phobia
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irrational fear of a specific situation, accmpanied by avoidance of the phenomenon feared
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depersonalization
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sense of not being real; sense of being detached from one's body or self
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magical thinking
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believing that thinking about something happening is the same as doing it
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grandiosity
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exaggerated beliefs in own worth and/or abilities
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paranoia
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unwarranted belief that others have harmful intentions to person
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concrete description
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sees objets in very definite simple ways
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abstract ability
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can generalize the maning of a concept and find meaning in symbols
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serial 7's
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test to determine the patient's ability to concentrate by having him or her continually subtract from 100 by 7
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orientation to person
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knows his or her name
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orientation to place
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knows where he or she is
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orientation to time
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knows date, day of the week, year
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orientation to situation
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knows what is wrong with him or her, why he or she is receiving care, the circumstances of current situation
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