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Psych Chap 15
Schizophrenia
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A persistent irrational belief held despite evidence to the contrary | Delusion |
| Misinterpretations of the verbalizations or actions of others wherein the patient believes the behaviors have special meanings relative to him | Ideas of reference |
| A misinterpretation of internal stimuli as being external reality | Hallucinations |
| A persistent irrational belief | Delusion |
| Repeating the words of others | Echolalia |
| the neurological changes that cause the Illness also interfere with the person’s ability to recognize that he is ill | Anosognosia |
| The ability to hold distorted postures for extended periods of time, as though the patient were molded in wax | Waxy flexibility |
| Involves the patient assuming the positions or postures he observes in others | Echopraxia |
| Sensation of unreality wherein some aspect of the self seems distorted or unreal | Depersonalization |
| Refers to a belief that thoughts are being removed from one’s mind | Thought withdrawal |
| Involve painful contractions of the tongue, face, neck, and back. Opisthotonos and oculogyric crisis may be observed | Acute dystonic reactions |
| Involves involuntary rhythmic muscular contractions that involve the tongue, fingers, toes, neck, trunk, or pelvis that usually appear after extended treatment and do not respond to antiparkinsonian drugs | Tardive dyskinesia |
| Psychomotor restlessness, often presenting as pacing and an inability to remain at rest | Akathisia |
| Involves choosing words based on their sounds rather than their meanings and usually involves alliteration or rhyming | Clanging |
| Newly coined words | Neologisms |
| Refers to thoughts that are poorly connected to each other, or that do not seem to present in logical order | Looseness of association |
| The ability to think in a nonliteral way and is essential for tasks such as understanding symbolism and abstract concepts such as love or time | Abstract thinking |
| The absence of abstract thinking, or literal thinking, and is seen here in the patient’s interpreting the expression literally and actually bending over to help himself | Concrete thinking |
| Inability to figure out whether a perception or thought is based in reality | Impaired reality testing |
| Difficulty telling where one’s self begins or ends or how one is distinct from others or one’s surroundings | Boundary impairment |
| The outward manifestation of a person's feelings and emotions | Affect |
| Disorganized thinking, manifested as jumbled and illogical speech and impaired reasoning, is displayed. | Associative looseness |
| Thinking is not bound to reality but reflects the private perpetual world of the individual. | Autism |
| Simultaneously holding two opposing emotions, attitudes, ideas, or wishes toward the same person, situation, or object. | Ambivalence |
| What do you call these types of schizophrenic symptoms; Hallucinations, Delusions, Disorganized speech, Bizarre behavior | Positive Symptoms |
| What do you call these types of schizophrenic symptoms; Blunted affect, poverty of thought, loss of motivation, Inability to experience pleasure or joy | Negative Symptoms |
| What do you call these types of schizophrenic symptoms; Inattention, easily distracted,impaired memory, poor-problem solving skills, poor-decision making skills, illogical thinking, impaired judgement | Cognitive Symptoms |
| What do you call these types of schizophrenic symptoms; Dysphoria, suicidality, hopelessness | Affective Symptoms |
| Mimicking of movements of another | Echophraxia |
| Jumble of words that is meaningless to the listener | Word Salad |
| False perception that the environment has changed | Derealization |
| 7 Types of Delusions | Control Ideas of reference Persecution Grandeur Somatic Delusions Erotomatic Jealousy |
| 5 Types of Hallucinations | Auditory Vsual Olfactory Gustatory Tactile |
| A pronounced increase or decrease in the rate and amount of movement; the most common form is stuporous behavior in which a person moves a little or not at all. | Catatonia |
| A pronounced slowing of movement | Motor retardation |
| Excited behavior such as running or pacing rapidly, often in response to internal or external stimuli | Motor agitation |
| The performance by a catatonic patient of all simple commands in a robot like fashion | Automatic obedience |
| Negativism | Akin to resitance but may not be intentional |
| A reduced ability to resist one's impulses | Impaired Impulse Control |
| A medication-induced temporary constellation of symptoms associated with Parkinson's Disease; tremor, reduced accessory movements, impaired gait, & stiffening of muscles | Pseudoparkinsonism |
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