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Cards In This Set
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What is Schizophrenia?
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Disorder characterized major disturbances in perception, language, thought, emotion, and behavior
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Define the term psychosis
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Serious mental disorders characterized by extreme mental disruption and loss of contact with reality.
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Give some examples of positive symptoms of schizophrenia
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Hallucination, dellutions,
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Define the term cataplexy
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Negative symptom of schizophrenia where the person assume an uncomfortable, nearly immobile stance for an extended period
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Define waxy flexibility
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Tendency to maintain whatever posture is imposed
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Define the term flat affect
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A severe reduction in emotional expressiveness
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Describe the paranoid schizophrenia
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Dominated by delusion (persecution and grandeur) and hallucination (hearing voices
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Describe the Disorganized schizophrenia
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Characterized by incoherent speech, flat or exaggerated emotions, and social withdrawal
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Describe the residual schizophrenia
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The person No longer meets full criteria for schizophrenia but still shows some symptoms
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Describe the Catatonic schizophrenia
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Marked by motor disturbances (immobility or wild activity) and echo speech (repeating the speech of others)
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How many chances does a schiziphrenic's twin have to get schizophrenia?
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48 to 88% of chances
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Define the term Substance related disorders
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It is an abuse of, or dependence on, a mood- or behavior altering drug.
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What type of Dissociative disorder
does one have if he fails to recall past experiences
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Dissociative amnesia
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What type of Dissociative disorder
does one have if he leavs home and wanders off
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Dissociative fugue
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What type of Dissociative disorder does one have if he loses the sense of reality and feeling estranged from the self
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Depersonalization desorder
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