Chapter 13 (Barlow)

Question 1

Characterized by a broad spectrum of cognitive and emotional dysfunctions including delusions and hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior, and inappropriate emotions

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Schizophrenia

Question 2

Alternating immobility and excited agitation

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Catatonia

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Silly and immature emotionality

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Hebephrenia

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Delusions of grandeur or persecution

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Paranoia

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Kraepelin thought the symptoms of insanity symptoms shared similar underlying features and included them under the Latin term

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Dementia praecox

Question 6

Concept emphasized the “breaking of associative threads,” or the destruction of the forces that connect one function to the
next.

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Associative splitting

Question 7

Used to characterize many unusual
behaviors, although in its strictest sense, it usually involves delusions (irrational beliefs) and/or hallucinations (sensory experiences in the absence of external events).

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Psychotic behavior

Question 8

More obvious signs of psychosis; include the disturbing experiences of delusions and hallucinations

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Positive symptoms

Question 9

A belief that would be seen by most members of a society as a misrepresentation of reality

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Disorder of thought content/ Delusion

Question 10

Mistaken belief that the person is famous
or powerful

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Delusion of grandeur

Question 12

Sees the beliefs as resulting from brain dysfunction that creates these disordered cognitions or perceptions.

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Deficit view of delusion

Question 13

Experience of sensory events without any input from the surrounding environment

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Hallucination

Question 14

Usually indicate the absence or insufficiency of normal behavior.

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Negative Symptoms

Question 15

Inability to initiate and persist in activities

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Avolition

Question 16

People with this symptom show little interest in performing even the most basic day-to-day functions, including those associated with personal hygiene.

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Apathy

Question 17

Refers to the relative absence of speech

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Alogia

Question 18

Presumed lack of pleasure experienced
by some people with schizophrenia.

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Anhedonia

Question 19

This symptom captures a lack of interest in social interactions

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Asociality

Question 20

They are similar to people wearing masks because they do not show emotions
when you would normally expect them to; they may stare at you vacantly, speak in a flat and toneless manner, and seem unaffected by things going on around them.

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Flat affect

Question 21

These include a variety of erratic behaviors that affect speech, motor behavior, and emotional reactions.

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Disorganized Symptoms

Question 22

People with schiz jump from topic to topic, and at other times they talk illogically.

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Disorganized speech

Question 23

Going off on a tangent instead of answering a specific question.

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Tangentiality

Question 24

Abruptly changed the topic of conversation to unrelated areas

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Loose association or derailment

Question 25

People with schizophrenia display laughing or crying at improper times.

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Inappropriate affect

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People hold unusual postures, as if they were fearful of something terrible happening if they moved

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Catatonic immobility

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Tendency to keep their bodies and limbs in the position they are put in by someone else

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Waxy flexibility

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3 Historic Schizophrenia Subtypes

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Paranoid (delusions of grandeur or persecution) Disorganized (or hebephrenic; silly and immature emotionality) Catatonic (alternate immobility and excited agitation).

Question 29

Some people experience the symptoms of schizophrenia for a few months only; they can usually resume normal lives; symptoms sometimes disappear as the result of successful treatment, but they often do so for reasons unknown.

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Schizophreniform disorder

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Individuals tend not to get better on their own and are likely to continue experiencing major life difficulties for many years.

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Schizoaffective Disorder

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Persistent belief that is contrary to reality, in the absence of other characteristics of schizophrenia; characterized by a persistent delusion that is not the result of an organic factor such as brain seizures or of any severe psychosis.

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Delusional Disorder

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5 delusional subtypes

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Erotomanic Grandiose Jealous Persecutory Somatic

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Irrational belief that one is loved by another person, usually of higher status.

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Erotomanic type

Question 34

Involves believing in one’s inflated worth, power, knowledge, identity, or special relationship to a deity or famous person

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Grandiose type

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Believes the sexual partner is unfaithful.

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Jealous type

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Involves believing oneself (or someone close) is being malevolently treated in some way

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Persecutory type

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Person feels afflicted by a physical defect or general medical condition

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Somatic type

Question 38

This subtype applies when no delusional theme predominated

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Mixed type

Question 39

Condition in which an individual develops delusions simply as a result of a close relationship with a delusional individual

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Shared psychotic disorder (folie à deux)

Question 40

Characterized by the presence of one or more positive symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech or behavior lasting 1 month or less.

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Brief psychotic disorder

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1- to 2-year period before the serious symptoms occur but when less severe yet unusual behaviors start to show themselves

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Prodromal stage

Question 42

Find basic processes that contribute to the behaviors or symptoms of the disorder and then find the gene or genes that cause these difficulties

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Endophenotyping

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Effective with many people who were not helped with traditional neuroleptic medications

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Olanzapine

Question 44

Area may be less active in people with schizophrenia than in people without the disorder

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Hypofrontality

Question 45

Individuals with schizophrenia show too much activity

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Hyperfrontality

Question 46

Used for a time to describe a mother whose cold, dominant, and rejecting nature was thought to cause schizophrenia in her children

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Schizophrenogenic mother

Question 47

Used to portray a communication style that produced conflicting messages, which, in turn, caused schizophrenia to develop

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Double bind communication

Question 48

Particular emotional communication style; if the levels of criticism (disapproval), hostility (animosity), and emotional overinvolvement (intrusiveness) expressed by the families were high, patients tended to relapse

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Expressed emotion (EE)

Question 49

Several drugs that relieved symptoms in many people

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Neuroleptics

Question 50

These symptoms include the motor difficulties similar to those experienced by people with Parkinson’s disease, sometimes called Parkinsonian symptoms

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Extrapyramidal symptoms

Question 51

Involves involuntary movements of the tongue, face, mouth, or jaw and can include protrusions of the tongue, puffing of the cheeks, puckering of the mouth, and chewing movements.

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Tardive dyskinesia

Question 52

Residents could earn access to meals and small luxuries by behaving appropriately.

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Token economy