Mental Disorders Ch. 13

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what is the essential feature of schizophrenia

broad spectrum of cognitive behaviors and emotional dysfunction

disorganized speech

positive and negative symptoms

it is episodic but the diagnosis is always there

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what are the positive symptoms of schizophrenia

delusions

hallucinations

Behaviors are more exaggerated than normal  

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what are delusions

a disorder of thought content

believing something that is not real

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what are hallucinations

experiencing sensory events without input from the surrounding environments

seeing/hearing things that arent there

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what are the most common hallucinations 

auditory hallucinations

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what are negative symptoms

avolition

alogia

anhedonia

asociality

affective flattening

disorganized speech

inappropriate affect

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what is alogia

relative absence of speech

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what is avolition 

inability to initiate or persist in goal-directed activities 

apath

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what is disorganized behaviors/speech in schizophrenia

erratic speech

cognitive slippage

tangentiality

loose associations

inappropriate affect

disorganized behaviors

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what is cognitive slippage

no logic

no real words

screaming sounds

illogical

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what is tangentiality 

jumping from convo to convo, doing too much 

somewhat a train of thought 

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what are loose associations

no train of thought whatsoever

no flow of convo

quickly changes topics

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what are disorganized behaviors

catatonia (holding the body in an uncomfortable position for a longg time)