Class 3

Question 1

Schizophrenia

Answer 1

neurocognitive disorder
global impairment of complex psychological functioning
major disruptions in everyday routines and life goals

underfunctioning frontal lobe

not: psychosis, multiple personality, caused by extreme stress or abuse or bad parenting, related to extreme intelligence or deviant from society’s norms

Question 2

25 percent rule

Answer 2

idk what this is

Question 3

Wisconsin card sorting task

Answer 3

idk

Question 4

executive functioning

Answer 4

high level abilities that regulate other behaviors and abilities- it is needed for planning, judgment, abstract thinking, impulse

Question 5

causes of schizophrenia

Answer 5

1. structure abnormalities in brain
2. environmental effects on developing brain (perinatal oxygen deprivation, prenatal flu exposure of mom 2nd trimester)
3. abnormalities in brain biochemistry (neurotransmitters)
4. genetics

Question 6

dopamine hypothesis

Answer 6

Book:
idea that schizophrenia involves an excess of dopamine activity

in class:
originally too much dopamine based on first medications

now it is underactive prefrontal cortext. release of mesolombic dopamine

Question 7

symptoms

Answer 7

positive
delusions
hallucinations
disorganized speech
grossly disorganized

negative
dminished emotional expression or avolition

Question 8

schizophrenia (book)

Answer 8

disorder characterized by profound disruption of basic psychoogical processes; distored perception of reality; altered or blunt emotion; and disturbances in thought, motivation, and behavior

Question 9

positive symptoms

Answer 9

thoughts and behaviors, such as delusions and hallucinations, present in schizophrenia but not seen inthose without the disorders

Question 10

hallucination

Answer 10

false belief, often bizarre and grandiose, that is maintained in spite of its irrationality

Question 11

hallucination

Answer 11

false perceptual experience that has a compelling sense of being real despite the absence of external stimulation

Question 12

disorganized speech

Answer 12

severe disruption of verbal communication in which ideas shift rapidly and incoherently among unrelated topics

Question 13

grossly disorganized behavior

Answer 13

behavior that is inappropriate for the situation or ineffective in attaining goals, often with specific motor disturbances

Question 14

catatonic behavior

Answer 14

marked decrease in all movement or an increase in muscular rigidity and overactivity

Question 15

negative symptoms

Answer 15

deficits in or disruptions of normal emotions and behaviors (emotional and social withdrawal; apathy; poverty of speech; and other indications of the absence or insufficiency of normal behavior, motivation, and emotion) that are present in those with schizophrenia

Question 16

cognitive symptoms

Answer 16

deficits in cognitive abilities, specifically executive functioning, attention, and working memory, present in those with schizophrenia