schizophrenia key terms

Question 1

affective lability

Answer 1

abrupt, dramatic, unprovoked changes in the types of emotions expressed

Question 2

agitation

Answer 2

inability to sit still or attend to others accompanied by heightened emotions or tensions

Question 3

akathisia

Answer 3

-inability to sit still
-extrapyramidal side affect

Question 4

alogia

Answer 4

-reduced fluency and productivity of thought and speech
-brief, empty verbal response

Question 5

ambivalence

Answer 5

-presence and expression of two opposing feelings
-leads to inaction

Question 6

anhedonia

Answer 6

inability to experience pleasure

Question 7

apathy

Answer 7

-decreased reactions to stimuli
-diminished interest and desire

Question 8

autisitic thinking

Answer 8

thinking restricted to the literal and immediate so that the individual has private rules of logic and reasoning that makes no sense to other

Question 9

avolution

Answer 9

withdrawal and inability to initiate and persist in goal-directed activity

Question 10

catatonia

Answer 10

-psychomotor disturbances
-ex: stupor, mutism, posturing, or repetitive behavior

Question 11

catatonic excitement

Answer 11

-hyperactivity characterized by purposeless activity and abnormal movements like grimacing and posturing

Question 12

circumstantiality

Answer 12

extremely detailed and lengthy discourse about a topic

Question 13

clang association

Answer 13

-repetition of word phrases that are similar in sound but in no other way
-ex: right, light, sight, might

Question 14

concrete thinking

Answer 14

lack of abstraction in thinking in which people are unable to understand punch lines, metaphors, and analogies

Question 15

confused speech and thinking

Answer 15

-unable to respond accurately to the ordinary signs and sounds of daily living
-sx of schizophrenia

Question 16

command hallucinations

Answer 16

an auditory hallucination instructing one to act in a certain way

Question 17

echolalia

Answer 17

repetition of another’s words that is parrot like and inappropriate

Question 18

echopraxia

Answer 18

involuntary imitation of another person’s movements and gestures

Question 19

flight of ideas

Answer 19

-repeated and rapid changes in the topic of conversation
-generally after one sentence or phrase

Question 20

hypervigilance

Answer 20

-sustained attention to external stimuli as if expecting stimuli as if expecting something important or frightening to happen

Question 21

loose associations

Answer 21

-absence of the normal connectedness of thoughts and ideas
-sudden shifts without apparent relationship to preceding topic

Question 22

metonymic speech

Answer 22

-use of words with similar meaning interchangeably

Question 23

neologisms

Answer 23

words that are made up that have no common meaning and are not recognized

Question 24

pressured speech

Answer 24

speaking as if the words are being forced out

Question 25

referential thinking

Answer 25

belief that neutral stimuli have special meaning to the individual
-ex: tv commentator speaking directly to the individual

Question 26

stereotypy

Answer 26

repetitive, purposeless movement that are idiosyncratic to the individual and to some degree outside of the individual’s control

Question 27

stilted language

Answer 27

overly and inappropriately artificial formal language

Question 28

tangentiality

Answer 28

when the topic of conversation changes to an entirely different topic that’s within a logical progression but causes a permanent detour from the original focus

Question 29

verbigeration

Answer 29

purposeless repetition of words or phrases

Question 30

word salad

Answer 30

a string of words that aren’t connected in any way