Exam 4-PSY 320 Flashcards
Psychosis
State involving a loss of contact with reality as well as an inability to differentiate between reality and one’s subjective state
Schizophrenia
Disorder consisting of unreal or disorganized thoughts and perceptions as well as verbal, cognitive, and behavioral deficits
Positive Symptoms
In schizophrenia, hallucinations, delusions, and disorganization in thoughts and behavior (also called Type 1 symptoms)
Delusions
Fixed beliefs with no basis in reality
Persecutory Delusions
False, persistent beliefs that one is being pursued by other people.
Delusions of Reference
False belief that external events, such as other people’s actions or natural disasters, relate some how to oneself
Grandiose Delusions
False, persistent beliefs that one has superior talents and traits
Delusions of Thought Insertion
Beliefs that one’s thoughts are being controlled by outside forces
Hallucinations
Perceptual experiences that are not real
Auditory Hallucination
Auditory perception of a phenomenon that is not real, such as hearing a voice when one is alone
Visual Hallucination
Visual perception of something that is not actually present
Tactile Hallucinations
Unreal perceptions that something is happening to the outside of one’s body – for example, that bugs are crawling up one’s back
Somatic Hallucinations
Unreal perceptions that something is happening inside one’s body – for example, that worms are eating one’s intestines
Formal Thought Disorder
State of highly disorganized thinking (also known as loosening of associations)
Catatonia
Group of disorganized behaviors that reflect an extreme lack of responsiveness to the outside world.
Negative Symptoms
In schizophrenia, deficits in functioning that indicate the absence of a capacity present in people without schizophrenia, such as affective flattening (also called Type II symptoms
Affective Flattening
Negative symptom of schizophrenia that consists of a severe reduction or the complete absence of affective responses to the environment
Alogia
Deficit in both the quantity of speech and the quality of its expression
Avolition
Inability to persist at common goal-directed activities
Prodromal Symptoms
In schizophrenia, milder symptoms prior to an acute phase of the disorder, during which behaviors are unusual and peculiar but not yet psychotic or completely disorganized
Residual Symptoms
In schizophrenia, milder symptoms following an acute phase of the disorder, during which behaviors are unusual and peculiar but not psychotic or completely disorganized.
Paranoid Schizophrenia
Syndrome marked by delusions and hallucinations that involve themes of persecution and grandiosity
Disorganized Schizophrenia
Syndrome marked by incoherence in cognition, speech, and behavior as well as flat or inappropriate affect
Catatonic Schizophrenia
Type of schizophrenia in which people know a variety of motor behaviors and ways of speaking that suggest almost complete unresponsiveness to their environment