Ab. Psych. Chapter 12: Schizophrenia And Other Psychotic Disorders

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Schizophrenia

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Devastating psychotic disorder thast may involve characteristic disturbances in thinking (delusions), perception (hallucinations), speech, emotions, and behavior.

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Catanoia

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Disorder of movement involving immobility or excited agitation.

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Hebephrenia

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Silly and immature emotionality, a characteristic of some types of schizophrenia.

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Paranoia

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Person's irrational beliefs that he/she is a specially important (delusions of grandeur) or that other people are seeking to do him/her harm.

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Dementia praecox

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latin term meaning "premature loss of mind," an early label for what is now called schizophrenia, emphasizing the disorder's frequent appearence during adolescence.

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Associative splitting

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separation among basic functions of human personality (e.g., cognition, emotion, perception)that was seen by some as the defining characteristics of schizophrenia.

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Psychotic Behavior

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severe psychological disorder characterized by hallucinations and loss of contact with reality.

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Delusion

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Psychotic symptom involving disorder of thought content and prescence of strong beliefs that are misrepresentations of reality.

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Hallucinations

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psychotic symptoms of perceptual disturbance in which things are seen, heard, or otherwise sensed although they are not real or actually present.

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Avolition

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apathy, or the inability to initiate or persist in important activities.

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Alogia

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deficiency in the amount of content or speech, a disturbance often seen in people with schizophrenia.

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Anhedonia

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inability to experience pleasure, associated with some mood and schizophrenic disorders.

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flat affect

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apparently emotionless demeanor (including toneless speech and vacant gaze) when a reaction would be expected.

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disorganized speech

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style of talking often seen in people with schizophrenia, involving incoherence and a lack of typical logic patterns.

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inappropriate affect

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emotional displays that do not match the situation.

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catatonic immobility

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disturbance of motor behavior in which the person remains motionless, sometimes in awkward posture, for extended periods.

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brief psychotic disorder

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psychotic disturbance involving delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech or behavior but lasting less than 1 month; often occurs in reaction to a stressor.

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shared psychotic disorder (floie a deux)

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psychotic disturbance in which an individual develops a delusion similar to that of a person with whom he/she shares a close relationship.

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positive symptoms

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more overt symptoms, such as delusions and hallucinations, displayed by some people with schizophrenia.

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negative symptoms

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less outgoing symptoms, such as flat affet and poverty of speech, displayed by some people with schizophrenia.

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schizophrenogenic mother

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according to an obsolete, unsupported theory, a cold, dominating, and rejecting parent who was thought to cause schizophrenia in her offspring.

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double bind communication

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according to an obsolete, unsupported theory, the practice of transmitting conflicting messages that was thought to cause schizophrenia.

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expressed emotion

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the hostility, criticism, and over involvment demonstrated in some families toward a family member with a psychological disorder; this can often contribute to the person's relapse.

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Token economy

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behavior modification system in which individuals earn items they can exchange for desired rewards by displaying appropriate behaviors.