Week 5: Chapter 13 Schizophrenia Spectrum Diorders

Question 1

How do symptoms of alogia present?

Answer 1

deficiency in the amount or content of speech

Question 2

What is anhedonia?

Answer 2

inability to experience pleasure

Question 3

What is avolotion?

Answer 3

inability to initiate or persist important activities

Question 4

Brief psychotic syndrome lasts less than ______?

Answer 4

Lasting less than 1 month

Question 5

What is catatonia?

Answer 5

Disorder of movement immobility or excited agitation.

Question 6

What is a delusion when considering psychotic symptoms?

Answer 6

thoughts and content or strong beliefs that misrepresent reality

Question 7

A psychotic disorder featuring a persistent belief contrary to reality is called?

Answer 7

Delusional disorder

Question 8

The term meaning “premature loss of mind” is what? (latin term)

Answer 8

Dementia praecox

Question 9

What is disorganized speech in schizophrenia?

Answer 9

Talking, often involving incoherence and lack of logical patterns of thought

Question 10

An old unsupported theory called ___ ____ _____ believed that the practice of transmitting conflicting messages caused schizophrenia

Answer 10

Double bind communication

Question 11

_____ _______ is when there is hostility, criticism and overinvolvement demonstrated by family toward a family member with a psychological disorder

Answer 11

Experssed emotion (EE)

Question 12

What is a hallucination?

Answer 12

A perceptual disturbance when things are seen, heard, or sensed when they are not present/real

Question 13

Silly and immature emotionality is refered to as ?

this is characteristic to some types of schizophrenia

Answer 13

Hebephrenia

Question 14

If someone has inappropriate affect this means what?

Answer 14

Their emotional displays are improper for the situation

Question 15

If someone has irrational beliefs that are especially important (such as delusion of grandeur) or other people are seeking to do harm, this is referred to as ?

Answer 15

Paranoia

Question 16

Substance-induced psychotic disorder is induced by the ingestion of what?

Answer 16

Medications, toxins, drugs

Question 17

A psychotic disorder featuring symptoms of both major mood disorder and schizophrenia is labeled what?

Answer 17

Schizoaffective disorder

Question 18

What a psychotic disorder involving symptoms of schizophrenia lasts less than 6 months, this is labeled ?

Answer 18

Schizophreniform disorder

Question 19

What is schizotypal disorder?

Answer 19

Cluster A personality disorder.

Pervasive patterns of interpersonal deficits featuring acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for close relationships and cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behaviour is what disorder?

Question 20

Pervasive patterns of interpersonal deficits featuring acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for close relationships and cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behaviour is what disorder?

Answer 20

Schizotypal

Question 21

When individuals develop a delusion similar to that of a person they share a close relationship with, this is called ?

Answer 21

Shared psychotic disorder

Question 22

What is shared psychotic disorder?

Answer 22

When individuals develop a delusion similar to that of a person they share a close relationship

Question 23

What is the core feature of a psychotic disorder associated with another medical condition?

Answer 23

A condition characterized by hallucinations or delusion and that is a direct result of another physiological disorder.
e.g. stroke or brain tumor