WEEK 4 SCHIZOPHRENIA SPECTRUM AND PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS

Question 1

fixed beliefs that are not
amenable to change in light of conflicting evidence
-clearly implausible and not
understandable to same-culture peers and do not derive from ordinary
life experiences

Answer 1

DELUSIONS (Beliefs)

Question 2

perception-like experiences that occur without an external stimulus

Answer 2

Hallucinations (perceptions)

Question 3

inferred from disorganized speech, loose associations, tangentiality,
incoherence, “word salad”

Answer 3

disorganized thinking (Speech)

Question 4

grossly disorganized or abnormal movements that can interfere with daily living

Answer 4

Abnormal motor behavior:

Question 5

an absence or lack of normal mental function involving thinking, behavior, and
perception

Answer 5

Negative symptoms

Question 6

the failure to generate effective psychological coping
mechanisms in response to stress, resulting in personality disturbance or
disintegration, especially that which causes relapse in schizophrenia

Answer 6

decompensation

Question 7

the first phase of psychosis, where the person starts to
experience changes in themselves, but have not yet started experiencing
clear-cut psychotic symptoms.

Answer 7

prodromal symptoms

Question 8

Often the same symptoms as the active phase of
psychosis, but less severe

Answer 8

residual symptoms

Question 9

“they
are after me”

Answer 9

persecutory delusions

Question 10

“the world
will end on
November 13”

Answer 10

Nihilistic Delusions

Question 11

“the
news anchor is
talking to/about
me”

Answer 11

Referential Delusions

Question 12

thoughts
that their romantic
partner is unfaithful

Answer 12

Jealous delusions

Question 13

thoughts were put
on one’s mind by
outside force

Answer 13

Thought insertion delusion

Question 14

“I can
create a better
theory than
Einstein”

Answer 14

Grandiose delusion

Question 15

“my
internal organs
were removed and
replaced with
rubber”

Answer 15

Somatic Delusion

Question 16

“when
they flush their
toilet, I get a
stomachache”

Answer 16

Control Delusion

Question 17

“Brad
Pitt is in love with
me”

Answer 17

erotomanic delusions

Question 18

thoughts were removed by outside force

Answer 18

thought withdrawl

Question 19

Hearing voices

Answer 19

auditory hallucinations

Question 20

seeing things that are not there

Answer 20

visual hallucinations

Question 21

feel something that is not there

Answer 21

tactile hallucination

Question 22

smell something that is not there

Answer 22

olfactory hallucination

Question 23

taste something that is not there

Answer 23

gustatory hallucination

Question 24

agitation, bizarre
movements, rigidity, bizarre postures, catatonia

Answer 24

Disorganized motor behavior

Question 25

marked psychomotor disturbance that may involve decreased motor activity, decreased engagement during interaction, or excessive and peculiar motor activity. It may range from marked unresponsiveness, immobility, and complete mutism, to marked agitation and repetitive stereotyped movement.

Answer 25

catatonia

Question 26

-Rigidity or stupor that lasts for hours or even days -Performing strange m o v e m e n t s -Staying in uncomfortable positions without shifting -Erratic a n d extreme m o v e m e n t -Echolalia (repetition of words or behaviors)

Answer 26

common catatonic behaviors

Question 27

“diminished speech output” (speaking less, saying fewer words or only speaking in response to others)

Answer 27

Alogia negative symptoms

Question 28

“decrease in motivated self-initiated purposeful activities” like work or other activities

Answer 28

avolition negative symptom

Question 29

Diminished emotional expression in facial expression, eye contact, intonation, and body posture, as well as flat affect

Answer 29

Diminished emotional expression Negative symptom

Question 30

decreased ability to experience or remember pleasurable activities

Answer 30

anhedonia negative symptom