Chapter 15: Key Terms
- Anosognosia
- not having insight or awareness into disease
- Auditory hallucination
- altered perception of hearing in the absence of external stimuli
- Bizarre delusion
- fixed false beliefs with content that is not reasonably possible in this world
- Cognitive symptoms
- deficits in ability to think or reason
- Delusion
- fixed false belief that cannot be changed in the mind of those who hold them despite evidence to the contrary
- Formication
- hallucination that bugs are crawling on the skin
- Gustatory hallucination
- false perception involving taste
- Hallucination
- perception of sensory experiences without natural external stimuli, including auditory, visual, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory types
- Negative symptoms
- “take away” from a person’s personality, including cognitive decline and apathy
- Non-bizarre delusion
- fixed false belief containing content that is plausible but inconsistent with evidence
- Olfactory hallucination
- false sensory experience involving the sense of smell
- Positive symptoms
- changes to behaviors or content of thought, or the presence of symptoms, including hallucinations and delusions
- Psychosis
- severe mental condition where a person loses the ability to recognize reality or has lost contact with external reality, causing a loss of function and disorganization of personality
- Schizophrenia
- severe mental illness and disturbance involving a collection of cognitive, affective, and behavioral symptoms that negatively impact social, educational, or occupational functioning
- Tactile hallucination
- false sensory perceptions involving the sense of touch
- Visual hallucination
- false sensory involving the sense of sight
not having insight or awareness into disease
altered perception of hearing in the absence of external stimuli
fixed false beliefs with content that is not reasonably possible in this world
deficits in ability to think or reason
fixed false belief that cannot be changed in the mind of those who hold them despite evidence to the contrary
hallucination that bugs are crawling on the skin
false perception involving taste
perception of sensory experiences without natural external stimuli, including auditory, visual, tactile, gustatory, and olfactory types
“take away” from a person’s personality, including cognitive decline and apathy
fixed false belief containing content that is plausible but inconsistent with evidence
false sensory experience involving the sense of smell
changes to behaviors or content of thought, or the presence of symptoms, including hallucinations and delusions,
severe mental condition where a person loses the ability to recognize reality or has lost contact with external reality, causing a loss of function and disorganization of personality
severe mental illness and disturbance involving a collection of cognitive, affective, and behavioral symptoms that negatively impact social, educational, or occupational functioning
false sensory perceptions involving the sense of touch
false sensory involving the sense of smell
