Chapter 13

Question 1

Alogia

Answer 1

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

Question 2

anhedonia

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Associative Splitting

Answer 3

Separation among basic functions of human personality (for example, cognition, emotion, and perception) seen by some as the defining characteristic of schizophrenia.

Question 4

Avolition

Answer 4

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

Question 5

Brief Psychotic Disorder

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Catatonia

Answer 6

Disorder of movement involving immobility or excited agitation.

Question 7

Catatonic Immobility

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Catatonic Type of Schizophrenia

Answer 8

Type of schizophrenia in which motor disturbances (rigidity, agitation, and odd mannerisms) predominate.

Question 9

Delusion

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Delusional Disorder

Answer 10

Psychotic disorder featuring a persistent belief contrary to reality (delusion) but no other symptoms of schizophrenia.

Question 11

Dementia Praecox

Answer 11

Latin term meaning ”premature loss of mind,” an early label for what is now called schizophrenia, emphasizing the disorder’s frequent appearance during adolescence. Called démence précoce in France.

Question 12

Disorganized Speech

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Disorganized Type of Schizophrenia

Answer 13

Type of schizophrenia featuring disrupted speech and behavior, disjointed delusions and hallucinations, and silly or flat affect.

Question 14

Double Bind Communication

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Expressed Emotion (EE)

Answer 15

Hostility, criticism, and overinvolvement demonstrated by some families toward a family member with a psychological disorder. This can often contribute to the person’s relapse.

Question 16

Flat Affect

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Hallucinations

Answer 17

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

Question 18

hebephrenia

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Inappropriate Affect

Answer 19

Emotional displays that are improper for the situation.

Question 20

Negative Symptoms

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Paranoia

Answer 21

People’s irrational beliefs that they are especially important (delusions of grandeur) or that other people are seeking to do them harm.

Question 22

Paranoid Type of Schizophrenia

Answer 22

Type of schizophrenia in which symptoms primarily involve delusions and hallucinations; speech and motor and emotional behavior are relatively intact.

Question 23

Positive Symptoms

Answer 23

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

Question 24

Psychotic Behavior

Answer 24

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

Question 25

Residual Type of Schizophrenia

Answer 25

Diagnostic category for people who have experienced at least one episode of schizophrenia and who no longer display its major symptoms but still show some bizarre thoughts or social withdrawal.

Question 26

Schizoaffective Disorder

Answer 26

Psychotic disorder featuring symptoms of both schizophrenia and major mood disorder.

Question 27

Schizophrenia

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Schizophreniform Disorder

Answer 28

Psychotic disorder involving the symptoms of schizophrenia but lasting less than 6 months.

Question 29

Schizophrenogenic Mother

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Schizotypical Personality Disorder

Answer 30

Cluster A (odd or eccentric) personality disorder involving a pervasive pattern of interpersonal deficits featuring acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships, as well as cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior.

Question 31

Shared Psychotic Disorder (folie à deux)

Answer 31

Psychotic disturbance in which individuals develop a delusion similar to that of a person with whom they share a close relationship.

Question 32

Token Economy

Answer 32

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

Question 33

Undifferentiated Type of Schizophrenia

Answer 33

Category for individuals who meet the criteria for schizophrenia but not for one of the defined subtypes.