Psychiatric Terminology Quiz

What term describes the following behavior: The patient insists on talking in an excessively detailed way, never getting to the point of the conversation?

• Tangentiality

• Circumstantiality

• Cognitive retardation

• Flight of ideas

What term refers to the experience of having one's thoughts blocked or interrupted involuntarily?

• Thought deletion

• Thought blocking

• Paranoia

• Echolalia

Which of the following refers to a patient mimicking the movements of others?

• Echopraxia

• Catatonia

• Alogia

• Waxy flexibility

What term describes a situation where a patient believes that their thoughts are being inserted into their mind by someone else?

• Thought blocking

• Thought insertion

• Magical thinking

• Associative looseness

Which of the following symptoms refers to a general slowing down of mental and physical activity, making the person appear unresponsive or slowed in their actions?

• Motor retardation

• Motor agitation

• Impaired impulse control

• Negativism

What term is used to describe when someone exhibits an inappropriate emotional response, such as laughing during a sad situation?

• Bizarre affect

• Inappropriate affect

• Alogia

• Flat affect

What term describes the belief that someone is plotting against you or trying to harm you without evidence?

• Paranoia

• Magical thinking

• Grandiose delusions

• Erotomanic delusions

What term describes when a person exhibits speech that seems disconnected or haphazard, jumping from one topic to another without a logical connection?

• Flight of ideas

• Tangentiality

• Associative looseness

• Word salad

Which of the following refers to the belief that the patient’s thoughts or actions can influence external events or reality, like thinking their anger made someone fall?

• Magical thinking

• Paranoia

• Delusional thinking

• Circumstantiality

Which term refers to the absence of motivation or inability to engage in goal-directed behavior, a common negative symptom in schizophrenia?

• Avolition

• Alogia

• Anhedonia

• Asociality