All Defintions Flashcards
Atypical schizophrenia
Newer antipsychotics with fewer side affects that can affect more than one neurotransmitter.
Avolition
A chronic lack of motivation to complete tasks.
Delusions
Where a person holds an incorrect belief that is fixed and unchangeable in spite of offering evidence.
Diathesis-stress model
The theory that schizophrenia develops by genetic markers that increase vulnerability to schizophrenia, and external stressors that trigger it to develop.
Dopamine hypothesis
The theory that excess and lack of dopamine in different areas of the brain could be responsible for some schizophrenic symptoms.
Dysfunctional thought processing
The theory that schizophrenia could be attributed to faulty cognitive processes.
Family dysfunction
Some unhealthy family dynamics that may be a cause of schizophrenia, such as lack of communication, contradictory responses etc.
Hallucinations
Additional sensory experiences e.g. seeing someone that isn’t really there.
Negative symptoms
Symptoms that occur with loss of regular functioning , I.e. avolition
Positive symptoms
Symptoms that occur with excessive to regular functioning , e.g. auditory hallucinations
Schizophrenia
A mental disorder characterised by a confusion between reality and what is in their mind.
Speech poverty
The inability to produce fluent and coherent speech
Token economy
A form of behaviour management that aims to increase desirable behaviour and reduce undesirable behaviour by use of tokens. If desirable behaviour is displayed, immediate (indirect) rewards in the form of tokens are given. These can be exchanged for a reward of choice.
Typical antipsychotics
Older antipsychotics that were developed to reduce dopamine levels in the brain.
