Schizophrenia Flashcards
Define the hallmark symptom of schizophrenia and how it may present as.
Psychosis: An impairment of reality testing. This may present as alterations in sensory perceptions, thought content, or thought process/organization.
“Misperception of real external stimuli.”
Illusion
“Sensory perception not generated by external stimuli.”
Hallucination
“False conviction that one is the subject of attention by other people, or feeling as though people are referring to you in their conversations.”
Ideas of reference
“False beliefs not correctable by logic or reason, and not based on simple ignorance, not shared by culture.” What’s the most common type of this?
Delusion – Delusion of persecution
“Not knowing where one’s mind and body end and those of others begin.”
Loss of ego boundaries
“Lack of informative content in speech, lacking/poverty of speech.”
Alogia
“Repeating statements of others/Associating words by their sounds, not by their meanings.”
Echolalia (“Clanging”)
“In responding to questions, one presents unnecessary and voluminous details in ultimately arriving at an answer to the question posed.”
Circumstantiality
“Beginning a response in a logical fashion, but then getting further and further away from the point and fail to answer the question initially posed.”
Tangentiality
“Loss of logical meaning between words or thoughts; when asked a question, illogically jumps from one subject to another.”
Loose associations
“Abrupt halt in the train of thinking (often because of hallucinations).”
Thought blocking
“The idea that thoughts cause or prevent external events from happening.”
Magical thinking
“Difficulty in discerning the essential qualities of objects or relationships despite normal intelligence.”
Impaired abstraction ability
“Inventing new words.”
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