Chapter 13 (Barlow) Flashcards
Characterized by a broad spectrum of cognitive and emotional dysfunctions including delusions and hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior, and inappropriate emotions
Schizophrenia
Alternating immobility and excited agitation
Catatonia
Silly and immature emotionality
Hebephrenia
Delusions of grandeur or persecution
Paranoia
Kraepelin thought the symptoms of insanity symptoms shared similar underlying features and included them under the Latin term
Dementia praecox
Concept emphasized the “breaking of associative threads,” or the destruction of the forces that connect one function to the
next.
Associative splitting
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).
Psychotic behavior
More obvious signs of psychosis; include the disturbing experiences of delusions and hallucinations
Positive symptoms
A belief that would be seen by most members of a society as a misrepresentation of reality
Disorder of thought content/ Delusion
Mistaken belief that the person is famous
or powerful
Delusion of grandeur
Sees the beliefs as resulting from brain dysfunction that creates these disordered cognitions or perceptions.
Deficit view of delusion
Experience of sensory events without any input from the surrounding environment
Hallucination
Usually indicate the absence or insufficiency of normal behavior.
Negative Symptoms
Inability to initiate and persist in activities
Avolition
People with this symptom show little interest in performing even the most basic day-to-day functions, including those associated with personal hygiene.
Apathy
Refers to the relative absence of speech
Alogia
Presumed lack of pleasure experienced
by some people with schizophrenia.
Anhedonia
This symptom captures a lack of interest in social interactions
Asociality
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.
Flat affect