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24 Cards in this Set
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Loosening of associations |
No logical connection from one thought to another |
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Flight of ideas |
Thoughts change abruptly from one idea to another, usually accompanied by rapid/pressured speech |
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Neologisms |
Made up words |
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Word salad |
Incoherent collection of words |
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Clang associations |
Word connections due to phonetics rather than actual meaning: My car is red. I've been in bed. |
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Thought blocking |
Abrupt cessation of communication before the idea is finished |
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Tangentiality |
Point of conversation never reached due to lack of goal-directed associations between ideas; responses usually in the ballpark |
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Circumstantiality |
Point of conversation is eventually reached but with overinclusion of trivial or irrelevant details |
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Poverty of thought vs. overabundance |
Too few vs. too many ideas expressed |
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Delusions |
Fixed, false beliefs that are not shared by the person's culture and cannot be changed by reasoning. Bizarre vs. Nonbizarre |
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Phobias |
persistent, irrational fears |
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Obsessions |
Repetitive intrusive thoughts |
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Compulsions |
Repetitive behaviors |
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Hallucinations |
sensory perception that occur in the absence of an actual stimulus |
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Illusions |
Inaccurate perception of existing sensory stimuli |
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Attention/Concentration |
Ability fo substract serial 7s from 100 or to spell "world" backwards |
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Insight |
Patient's level of awareness and understanding of his or her problem, complete denial of illness or blaming it on someone else |
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Judgment |
Patient's ability to understand the outcome of his or her actions and use this awareness in decision making |
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Axis I: all diagnoses of mental illness Axis II: personality disorders and mental retardation Axis III: general medical conditions Axis IV: psychosocial and environmental problems Axis V: GAF |
Axis I-V |
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Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale |
most common test for ages 16-75, assesses overall intellectual functioning; two parts: verbal and visual-spatial |
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Stanford-Binet Test |
Tests intellectual ability in patients ages 2-18 |
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Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory |
tests personality for different pathologies and behavioral patterns, most commonly used for objective personality test |
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Thematic Apperception Test |
test taker creates stories based on pictures of people in various situations, used to evaluation motivations behind behaviors |
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Rorschach Test |
interpretation of inkblots, used to identify thought disorders and defense mechanisms |
