psy ch 12 schizophrenia – Flashcards
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schizophrenia
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psychotic disoreder in which personal, social and occupational functioning deteriorate as a result of strange perceptions, unusual emotions and motor abnormalities
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psychosis
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state in which a person loses contact with reality in key ways
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positive symptoms
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pathological excesses, or bizarre additions to persons behavior, delusions, disorganized thinking and speech, heightened perceptions and hallucinations, inappropriate effect are most often found in schizophrenia
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delusion
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ideas that the person believe wholeheartedly but have no basis in fact. (delusion of persecution is most common in schizophrenia
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formal thought disorder
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disturbance in the production and organization of thought
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loose associations
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common thinking disturbance in schizophrenia, characterized by rapid shifts from one topic of conversation to another. Also known as derailment
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hallucination
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experiencing of sights, sounds, or other perceptions in the absence of external stimuli
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inappropriate affect
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display of emotions that are unsuited to the situation a symptom of schizophrenia
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delusions of grandeur
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believe themselves to be great inventores, religious saviors or other specially empowered person
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delusion of persecution
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most common in schizophrenia, believe they are being plotted or discriminated against, spied on slandered, threatened, attacked or deliberately victimized.
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delusions of reference
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they attach special and personl meaning to the actions of others or to various objects or events
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delusions of control
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believe their feelings thoughts, and actions are being controlled by other people
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negative symptoms
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symptoms of schizophrenia that seem to be deficits in normal thought, emotions, or behaviors. (poverty of speech, restricted affect, loss of volition
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Biological explanations
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point to genetic, biochemical, structural and viral causes. Also related to virus that settle in the fetus and lies quiet until adolescence or young adulthood
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Biochemical explanation
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holds that the brains of people with schizophrenia experience excessive dopamine activity
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psychodynamic models
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Freud held schizophrenia involves regression to a state of primary narcissism and Fromm-Reichmann proposed that mothers help produce the disorder
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Todays psychodynamic
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believe that the disorder is caused by a combination of biological and psychodynamic factors
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Cognitive theorists
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hold that when people with schizophrenia try to understand their strange biological sensations they develop delusiional thinking
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sociocultual theorists
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holds that multicultural differences may influence that rate and character of schizophrenia across the world as well as recovery. Also state society expects person who are labeled to behave a certain way this expectations actually further symptoms
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clinical theorists
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agree schizophrenia can probably be traced to a combination of biological, psychological, and sociocultural factors but biological factors have been identified more precisely
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The most successful way to eliminate tardive dyskinesia is
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to stop the anitpsychotic meds
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What best decribes the effectiveness of token econony strategies
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they are successful at changing the patients behavior
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what is the rate of concordance for schizophrenia in identical twins
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40-50%
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Patients are more likely to recover from schizophrenia if they
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demonstrated good premorbid functioning
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the rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain is an example of
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clang
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What percentage of the world population is estimated to have schizophrenia
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1%
