Description of the slowness of voluntary & involuntary movements.
What is psychomotor retardation?
100
The most accurate predictor of violence
What is prior history of violence.?
100
Defined as a 'fixed false belief'
What is a Delusion?
100
A test of intelligence with a mean of 100 & SD of 100? (A score of 100 signifies that mental age = chronological age & corresponds to the 50th percentile in intellectual ability for the general population.)
What is IQ?
100
Includes memory, logical reasoning, ability to assimilate factual knowledge, understanding of abstract concepts, etc.
What is intelligence?
200
A hallmark of mania, where pt feels compelled to continue speaking and is uninterruptible.
What is of pressured speech ?
200
Directly & in detail (Do you want to kill yourself? Do you have a plan? Do you intend to kill yourself? Do you have the means?)
What is the best way to assess suicidality?
200
The inaccurate perception of existing sensory stimuli
What is an Illusion?
200
A test of overall intellectual functioning that has verbal and visual-spacial components and is used for ages 16-75
What is Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale (WAIS)?
200
Screen for this symptom includes: Do you clean, check or count things on a repetitive basis?
What is a compulsion?
300
A brief, bedside assessment of intellectual functioning
What is proverb interpretation or vocabulary testing?
300
An affect that is not congruent with the context
What is inappropriate affect?
300
A hypnopompic hallucination occurs
When is upon waking?
300
Tests intellectual ability in ages 2-18.
What is Stanford-Binet Test?
300
Asking about similarities (ex. apple & orange) tests this ability in a patient
What is abstraction?
400
An important risk factor for suicide or homicide that psychotic patients should always be asked about
What is a Command hallucination (an AH that instructs a patient to harm themselves or others)?
400
Description of the affect of a patient who remains expressionless & monotone even when discussing extremely sad or happy moments in their life
What is flat?
400
The term referring to hallucinations that develop within 12-24 hrs of abstinence in an EtOH-dependant person & resolve within 24-48 hours. Vital signs are normal and their is no clouding of sensorium
What is Alcoholic hallucinosis?
400
Test used to assess a patient's personality & identify psychopathologies
What is MN Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI)?
400
According to DSM IV, this AXIS provides information on global functioning
What is AXIS V?
500
Involuntary movements (purposeful or disorganized) that occur during an altered state of consciousness.
What are Automatisms?
500
Description of the affect of a patient who is laughing one second and crying the next
What is labile?
500
A hallmark of PCP intoxication
What is vertical/rotational nystagmus?
500
Identifies thought disorders & defense mechanisms via interpretations of inkblots.
What is Rohrshach Test?
500
Test used to evaluate motivations behind behaviors; pt creates stories based on pictures.