24 Questions
What is the term for experiencing hallucinations without any impairment of consciousness?
Hallucinosis
Which of the following is characterized by wild or silly behavior, inappropriate affect, and delusions and hallucinations?
Hebephrenia
What is the term for using a single word to express a combination of ideas?
Holophrastic
What is the term for excessive sensitivity to sounds?
Hyperacusis
What is the term for excessive thinking and mental activity?
Hyperpragia
What is the term for increased sensitivity to tactile stimulation?
Hyperesthesia
What is the term for an exaggerated degree of retention and recall?
Hypermnesia
What is the term for excessive attention to and focus on all internal and external stimuli?
Hypervigilance
What is the term for a diminished sensitivity to tactile stimulation?
Hypesthesia
What type of hallucination occurs while falling asleep?
Hypnagogic hallucination
What is a hallucination primarily involving smell or odors?
Olfactory hallucination
What is the term for a mood abnormality with the qualitative characteristics of mania but somewhat less intense?
Hypomania
What is the term for the misinterpretation of incidents and events in the outside world as having direct personal reference to oneself?
Idea of reference
What is the term for a state of awareness of oneself and one’s surroundings in terms of time, place, and person?
Orientation
What is an abnormality in motor behavior that can manifest itself as psychomotor agitation, hyperactivity, tics, sleepwalking, or compulsions?
Overactivity
What is the term for thinking that contains erroneous conclusions or internal contradictions?
Illogical thinking
What is a false or unreasonable belief or idea that is sustained beyond the bounds of reason?
Overvalued idea
What is the term for a diminished ability to understand a situation correctly and to act appropriately?
Impaired judgment
What is an acute, intense attack of anxiety associated with personality disorganization?
Panic
What is the term for a perceptual misinterpretation of a real external stimulus?
Illusion
What is a disturbance of memory in which reality and fantasy are confused?
Paramnesia
What is the term for the ability to resist an impulse, drive, or temptation to perform some action?
Impulse control
What is a rare psychiatric syndrome marked by the gradual development of a highly elaborate and complex delusional system?
Paranoia
What is thinking dominated by suspicious, persecutory, or grandiose content of less than delusional proportions?
Paranoid ideation
Study Notes
Hallucinations and Psychotic Disorders
- Hallucinosis: A state of experiencing hallucinations without impairment of consciousness.
- Haptic hallucination: A hallucination of touch.
- Hebephrenia: A complex of symptoms characterized by wild or silly behavior, inappropriate affect, and delusions and hallucinations that are transient and unsystematized.
Language and Communication
- Holophrastic: Using a single word to express a combination of ideas, often seen in schizophrenia.
Motor and Cognitive Disorders
- Hyperactivity: Increased muscular activity, commonly seen in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
- Hypersomnia: Excessive time spent asleep, may be associated with underlying medical or psychiatric disorder or narcolepsy.
- Hyperpragia: Excessive thinking and mental activity, generally associated with manic episodes of bipolar I disorder.
Sensory Disorders
- Hyperacusis: Extreme sensitivity to sounds.
- Hyperalgesia: Excessive sensitivity to pain, seen in somatoform disorder.
- Hyperesthesia: Increased sensitivity to tactile stimulation.
- Hypesthesia: Diminished sensitivity to tactile stimulation.
Memory and Cognition
- Hypermnesia: Exaggerated degree of retention and recall, can be elicited by hypnosis and may be seen in certain prodigies or OCD.
- Paramnesia: Disturbance of memory in which reality and fantasy are confused, observed in dreams and certain types of schizophrenia and organic mental disorders.
Anxiety and Fear Disorders
- Hyperventilation: Excessive breathing, generally associated with anxiety, which can reduce blood carbon dioxide concentration and produce symptoms such as lightheadedness and palpitations.
- Hypervigilance: Excessive attention to and focus on all internal and external stimuli, usually seen in delusional or paranoid states.
- Panic: Acute, intense attack of anxiety associated with personality disorganization and feelings of impending doom.
- Panphobia: Overwhelming fear of everything.
Delusions and Thought Disorders
- Overvalued idea: False or unreasonable belief or idea that is sustained beyond the bounds of reason.
- Paranoia: Rare psychiatric syndrome marked by the gradual development of a highly elaborate and complex delusional system, generally involving persecutory or grandiose delusions.
- Paranoid delusions: Include persecutory delusions and delusions of reference, control, and grandeur.
- Paranoid ideation: Thinking dominated by suspicious, persecutory, or grandiose content of less than delusional proportions.
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