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Chapter 13 Vocabulary Flashcards

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What is Schizophrenia

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

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What is démence

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Lose of mind

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What is précoce?

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Early, premature

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What is catatonia?

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Alternating mobility and excited agitation

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What is hebephrenia?

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Silly and immature emotionally

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What is paranoia?

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Delusions of grandeur or persecution

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What is dementia praecox

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Major neurocognitive disorder

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What is associative splitting

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Separation among basic functions of human personality

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What are psychotic behaviors

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Behaviors that include delusions and hallucinations

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What are positive schizophrenic symptoms?

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Symptoms around distorted reality

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What are negative schizophrenic symptoms?

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Deficits in normal behavior such as speech, flat affect and motivation

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What are delusions of persecution?

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People are “out to get me”

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What are motivational view of delusions?

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Look at beliefs as a way to deal with and relieve anxiety and stress

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What is erotomania?

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Belief that a famous person is in love with the individual

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What is the deficit view of delusions

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The beliefs are a result of the brain dysfunction that created the disordered cognitive and perceptions

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What is prosody?

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Communicates meaning and emotion through our pitch, amplitude, and pauses

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What is avolition?

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Inability to initiate and persist in activities

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What is alogia?

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Relative a sense of speech, short responses

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What is ahedoria?

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Lack of pleasure experienced by someone with schizophrenia

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What is flat affect

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Show no emotions when you expect them to

Feels like they have a mask on

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What is disorganized speech?

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Jump from topic to topic and other times talk illogically

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What is inappropriate affect?

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Laughing or crying at inappropriate times

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What is paranoid schizophrenia

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Delusions of grandeur and persecution

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What is disorganized schizophrenia

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Silly and immature emotions

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What is catatonic schizophrenia

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Alternate immobility and excited agitation

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What is a schizophreniform disorder?

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Symptoms of schizophrenia but last 6 months or less

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What is pre morbid

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Before the psychotic episode

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What is schizoaffective disorder?

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Psychotic disorder that includes features of schizophrenia and major mood disorder

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What is a delusional disorder

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Persisted belief contrary to reality (delusion) but no other symptoms of schizophrenia

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What is the erotomanic type of delusion?

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Irrational belief that one is loved by someone, usually of higher status

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What is a grand lose type of delusion?

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Believing in ones inflated worth, power, knowledge and identity

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What is jealous type of delusion?

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Sexual partner is unfaithful

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What is the persecutory type of delusion?

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Believing oneself is treated in some way

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What are somatic delusions

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The person feels afflicted by a physical defect or general medical condition

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What is shared psychotic disorder

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An individual develops delusions simply as a result of a close relationship with a delusional individual

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What is brief psychotic disorder

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The presence of one or more positive symptoms

37
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What is alternuated psychosis syndrome?

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People who don’t met full criteria for schizophrenia

38
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What is the prodromal stage?

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

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What is endophenotyping

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

40
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What is smooth-pursuit eye movement

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Eye tracking

41
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What is hypofrontality

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Frontal lobe may be less active with schizophrenia

42
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What is a schizophrenogenic mother

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Used to describe a mother who is cold, dominate, and rejecting and was thought to cause schizophrenia in her children

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What is double bind communication

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Communication style that was said to cause conflicting messages and cause schizophrenia

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