Schizophrenia and Other Psychotic Disorders Flashcards
Devastating psychotic disorder that may involve characteristic disturbances in thinking (delusions), perception (hallucinations), speech, emotions, and behavior.
schizophrenia
Disorder of movement involving immobility or excited agitation. Sometimes accompanies psychotic disorders or mood disorders.
catatonia
Silly and immature emotionality, a characteristic of some types of schizophrenia.
hebephrenia
People’s irrational beliefs that they are especially important (delusions of grandeur) or that other people are seeking to do them harm.
paranoia
Latin term meaning “premature loss of mind,” an early label for what is now called schizophrenia, emphasizing the disorder’s frequent appearance during adolescence. Called démence précoce in France.
dementia praecox
Separation among basic functions of human personality (for example, cognition, emotion, and perception) seen by some as the defining characteristic of schizophrenia.
associative splitting
Severe psychological disorder category characterized by hallucinations and loss of contact with reality.
psychotic behavior
Active manifestations of abnormal behavior (delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, odd body movements, or catatonia)
positive symptoms
Psychotic symptom involving disorder of thought content and presence of strong beliefs that are misrepresentations of reality.
delusion
Psychotic symptoms of perceptual disturbance in which things are seen, heard, or otherwise sensed although they are not actually present.
hallucination
Less outgoing symptoms, such as flat affect and poverty of speech, displayed by some people with schizophrenia.
negative symptoms
Apathy, or the inability to initiate or persist in important activities.
avolition
Deficiency in the amount or content of speech, a disturbance often seen in people with schizophrenia.
alogia
Inability to experience pleasure, associated with some mood and schizophrenic disorders.
anhedonia
Apparently emotionless demeanor (including toneless speech and vacant gaze) when a reaction would be expected.
flat affect
Style of talking often seen in people with schizophrenia, involving incoherence and a lack of typical logic patterns.
disorganized speech
Emotional displays that are improper for the situation.
inappropriate affect
Disturbance of motor behavior in which the person remains motionless, sometimes in an awkward posture, for extended periods.
catatonic immobility
Psychotic disorder involving the symptoms of schizophrenia but lasting less than 6 months.
schizophreniform disorder
Psychotic disorder featuring symptoms of both schizophrenia and major mood disorder.
schizoaffective disorder
Psychotic disorder featuring a persistent belief contrary to reality (delusion) but no other symptoms of schizophrenia.
delusional disorder
Psychotic disturbance in which individuals develop a delusion similar to that of a person with whom they share a close relationship.
shared psychotic disorder (folie à deux)
Psychosis caused by the ingestion of medications, psychoactive drugs, or toxins.
substance-induced psychotic disorder
Condition that is characterized by hallucinations or delusions and that is the direct result of another physiological disorder, such as stroke or brain tumor.
psychotic disorder associated with another medical condition
Psychotic disturbance involving delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech or behavior but lasting less than 1 month; often occurs in reaction to a stressor.
brief psychotic disorder
Disorder involving the onset of psychotic symptoms such as hallucinations and delusions, which puts a person at high risk for schizophrenia; designated for further study by DSM-5.
attenuated psychosis syndrome
Cluster A (odd or eccentric) personality disorder involving a pervasive pattern of interpersonal deficits featuring acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships, as well as cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior.
schizotypal personality disorder
Second of E. Morton Jellinek’s four stages identified in the progression of alcoholism, featuring heavy drinking but with few outward signs of a problem.
prodromal stage
According to an obsolete, unsupported theory, a cold, dominating, and rejecting parent who was thought to cause schizophrenia in her offspring.
schizophrenogenic mother
According to an obsolete, unsupported theory, the practice of transmitting conflicting messages that was thought to cause schizophrenia.
double bind communication
Hostility, criticism, and overinvolvement demonstrated by some families toward a family member with a psychological disorder. This can often contribute to the person’s relapse.
expressed emotion (EE)
Social learning behavior modification system in which individuals earn items they can exchange for desired rewards by displaying appropriate behaviors.
token economy
