Mental Status Pysch Interviewing Terms - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
a state of unease or mental discomfort, e.g. patient may appear uneasy or sad	dysphoric	60%
physician observes patient lacking an intense emotional response to distressing topics	blunt	50%
abundant, accelerated speech "___ speech"	pressured	50%
speech that has no logical connection between ideas and words. the words make sentences, but the sentences dont make sense	derailed	40%
impaired speech production due to weakness of musculature	dysarthric	40%
repetitions in speech	dysfluent	40%
normal tranquil mood	euthymic	40%
physician observes patient has no emotional response to distressing topic	flat	40%
rapid jumping from topic to topic without completing each train of thought	flight of ideas	40%
soft whispering voice	hypophonic	40%
sudden and frequent changes in expressed emotion	labile	40%
inappropriate formal, legal speech	stilted	40%
abrupt halting of thoughts	blocked	30%
thought disturbance in which indirect, winding speech which patient gives unnecessary and often irrelevant details before arriving at the point: answers the question, keeps the main point but takes a while to get their with unnecessary details	circumstantial	30%
use of sound patterns (like rhyming) rather than meaningful words, impaired intelligibility of speech	clanging	30%
thought content: a belief that somebody holds with complete certainty but that is at odds with reality: "i am the queen of england"	delusional	30%
unusual changes in pitch, intonation, stresses, phrasing and rhythm in speech	dysprosodic	30%
words that are created by the patient and does not have any meaning to others ("klipno" for "boots")	neologistic	30%
thought content: a persistently recurring thought, urge, or image that is experienced as intrusive or unwanted and results in anxiety	obsessional	30%
speech containing grammatical errors	paragrammatic	30%
speech that contains word retrieval errors in general	paraphasic	30%
thought content: preoccupation with distressing memories, thoughts, or worries, different from perseverative thinking in that the thought is always distressing and hopes to gain insight	ruminative	30%
thought disturbance marked by poor topic adherence: provides answer to a question that veers off from the topic of the question and does not return to the original topic, but still has a logical thread in the response	tangential	30%
omission of prepositions and modifiers when speaking "bad sleep month" instead of "i had bad sleeping habits this month"	telegraphic	30%
incorrectly retrieved word is a new word not similar in sound or meaning "drupong" for clock	neologistic paraphasia	20%
repetitive thought process where no matter the topic or question, patient goes back to the same topic to talk about	perseverative	20%
incorrectly retrieved word is similar in sound to actual word "pheletone" instead of "telephone"	phonemic paraphasia	20%
incorrectly retrieved word is similar in meaning: "boat" instead of a "beach"	semantic paraphasia	20%

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