Schizophrenia Flashcards
What is Avolition?
The inability to initiate in goal directed behaviour (EG: sitting in the house for hours doing nothing)
What is Affective Flattening?
A reduction in the range and intensity of emotional expression, including facial expression, voice tone, eye contact, body language
What is speech poverty?
The lessening of speech by fluency and productivity
What are positive/Negative symptoms?
+ Positive: Symptoms that add to an individual EG: Hallucinations
- Negative: Symptoms that take away from an individual EG: Speech Poverty
How many people in the world suffer from Schizophrenia?
1%
What is Validity?
The extent to which we are measuring what we are intending to measure
What did Whaley (2001) find out about inter-rather reliability correlations?
They were at 0.11 meaning that clinicians arnt agreeing on a diagnosis
What is Inter-reliability?
The extent to which psychiatrists can agree on the same diagnosis when assessing patients individually
Define Co-Morbidity
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Give an Example
When 2 or more conditions can occur at the same time
Schizophrenia is often Co-Morbid with other conditions like depression, Anxiety, ETC
Define Symptom Overlap
When Some Symptoms of a particular disorder can be found in other disorders
Eg: people who have Dissociative Identity disorder have more schizophrenic symptoms than people with Schizophrenia
What is Gender Bias?
The accuracy of the diagnosis depends on the gender of the patient
Define Culture Bias
A belief that different countries hold significant variation when it comes to diagnosing schizophrenia
What is Double- Bind Theory?
Children who frequently receive conflicting messages from their parents are more likely to develop schizophrenia
What is the Schizophrenogenic Mother?
A theory proposed by Reichmann (1948) that a cold, rejecting, and controlling, parent also tends to create tension within the family can increase the chances of developing schizophrenia
What are the 2 types of Cognitive Dysfunction?
Lack Of Metarepresentation: The disruption of the ability to recognise our own actions and thoughts as being carried out by us and not someone else
Lack Of Central Control: An inability to suppress automatic thoughts
