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Abnormal Chapter 13
Abnormal Psychology Chapter 13 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 | Catatonia |
| Silly and immature emotionality | Hebephrenia |
| People's irrational beliefs that they are especially important or that other people are seeking to do them harm | Paranoia |
| Latin term meaning "premature loss of mind", an early label for what now is called schizophrenia, emphasizing the disorder's frequent appearance during adolescence. | Dementia Praecox |
| Separation among basic functions of human personality (for example, cognition, emotion, and perception) | Associative splitting |
| Severe psychological disorder category characterized by hallucinations and loss of contact with reality | Psychotic behavior |
| More overt symptoms, such as delusions and hallucinations | 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 | Negative symptoms |
| Apathy or the inability to initiate or persist in important activities | Avolition |
| Deficiency in the amount or content of speech | Alogia |
| Inability to experience pleasure | Anhedonia |
| Apparently emotionless demeanor (including toneless speech and vacant gaze) when a reaction would be expected | Flat affect |
| Style of talking 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 |
| Type of schizophrenia in which symptoms primarily involve delusions and hallucinations; speech and motor and emotional behavior are relatively intact | Paranoid type of schizophrenia |
| Type of schizophrenia featuring disrupted speech and behavior, disjointed delusions and hallucinations, and silly or flat affect | Disorganized type of schizophrenia |
| Type of schizophrenia in which motor disturbances (rigidity, agitation, and odd mannerisms) predominate | Catatonic type of schizophrenia |
| Category for individuals who meet the criteria for schizophrenia but not for one of the defined subtypes | Undifferentiated type of schizophrenia |
| Diagnostic category for people who have experienced at least one episode of schizophrenia and who no longer display its major symptoms but still show some bizarre thoughts or social withdrawal | Residual type of schizophrenia |
| 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 but no other symptoms of schizophrenia | Delusional disorder |
| 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 |
| Psychotic disorder in which individuals develop a delusion similar to that of a person with whom they share a close relationship | Shared psychotic disorder |
| Cluster A 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 |
| 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 a 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 |
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