Chapter 13 Vocabulary

Question 1

What is Schizophrenia

Answer 1

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

Question 2

What is démence

Answer 2

Lose of mind

Question 3

What is précoce?

Answer 3

Early, premature

Question 4

What is catatonia?

Answer 4

Alternating mobility and excited agitation

Question 5

What is hebephrenia?

Answer 5

Silly and immature emotionally

Question 6

What is paranoia?

Answer 6

Delusions of grandeur or persecution

Question 7

What is dementia praecox

Answer 7

Major neurocognitive disorder

Question 8

What is associative splitting

Answer 8

Separation among basic functions of human personality

Question 9

What are psychotic behaviors

Answer 9

Behaviors that include delusions and hallucinations

Question 10

What are positive schizophrenic symptoms?

Answer 10

Symptoms around distorted reality

Question 11

What are negative schizophrenic symptoms?

Answer 11

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

Question 12

What are delusions of persecution?

Answer 12

People are “out to get me”

Question 13

What are motivational view of delusions?

Answer 13

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

Question 14

What is erotomania?

Answer 14

Belief that a famous person is in love with the individual

Question 15

What is the deficit view of delusions

Answer 15

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

Question 16

What is prosody?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

What is avolition?

Answer 17

Inability to initiate and persist in activities

Question 18

What is alogia?

Answer 18

Relative a sense of speech, short responses

Question 19

What is ahedoria?

Answer 19

Lack of pleasure experienced by someone with schizophrenia

Question 20

What is flat affect

Answer 20

Show no emotions when you expect them to

Feels like they have a mask on

Question 21

What is disorganized speech?

Answer 21

Jump from topic to topic and other times talk illogically

Question 22

What is inappropriate affect?

Answer 22

Laughing or crying at inappropriate times

Question 23

What is paranoid schizophrenia

Answer 23

Delusions of grandeur and persecution

Question 24

What is disorganized schizophrenia

Answer 24

Silly and immature emotions

Question 25

What is catatonic schizophrenia

Answer 25

Alternate immobility and excited agitation

Question 26

What is a schizophreniform disorder?

Answer 26

Symptoms of schizophrenia but last 6 months or less

Question 27

What is pre morbid

Answer 27

Before the psychotic episode

Question 28

What is schizoaffective disorder?

Answer 28

Psychotic disorder that includes features of schizophrenia and major mood disorder

Question 29

What is a delusional disorder

Answer 29

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

Question 30

What is the erotomanic type of delusion?

Answer 30

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

Question 31

What is a grand lose type of delusion?

Answer 31

Believing in ones inflated worth, power, knowledge and identity

Question 32

What is jealous type of delusion?

Answer 32

Sexual partner is unfaithful

Question 33

What is the persecutory type of delusion?

Answer 33

Believing oneself is treated in some way

Question 34

What are somatic delusions

Answer 34

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

Question 35

What is shared psychotic disorder

Answer 35

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

Question 36

What is brief psychotic disorder

Answer 36

The presence of one or more positive symptoms

Question 37

What is alternuated psychosis syndrome?

Answer 37

People who don't met full criteria for schizophrenia

Question 38

What is the prodromal stage?

Answer 38

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

Question 39

What is endophenotyping

Answer 39

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

Question 40

What is smooth-pursuit eye movement

Answer 40

Eye tracking

Question 41

What is hypofrontality

Answer 41

Frontal lobe may be less active with schizophrenia

Question 42

What is a schizophrenogenic mother

Answer 42

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

Question 43

What is double bind communication

Answer 43

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