AS.200.212 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14-15: Thought Disorder, Word Salad, Apparitional Experience
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Positive: things that are present but shouldn"t be, behavioral, emotional or thought excesses, subtypes: Formal thought disorder; disorder in thinking, not just cognitive biases, but completely wrong thinking speech patterns. Loose associations: when peoples thoughts are not well connect with one another in sequence, thers a thread from each sentence to the next but normal thinking process wouldn"t move that much. Neologisms: people use made up words: colbert"s truthism and george bush. Perseveration: repeat words and statements over and over again. Clang: speak in rhyme, lose ability to communicate things for what they are and instead focus on rhyming. Word salad: total incoherence of what they"re saying even though nouns/verbs in right place. Emotions are not consistent with the situation: laughing about someone close dying, upset/agitated when should be happy: psychosis: hallmark symptom of schizophrenia. Hallucinations: false sensory perceptions (any of 5 senses) Sensory experiences that occur in the absence of environmental stimulation.
