ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY EXAM 4
QUESTIONS AND ANWERS GRADED A+
Schizophrenia - ✔✔A disorder characterized by disturbances in thought,
emotion, and behavior; disordered thinking in which ideas are not logically
related; delusional beliefs; faulty perception, such as hallucinations;
disturbances in attention; disturbances in motor activity; blunted expression
of emotion; reduced desire for interpersonal relations and withdrawal from
people; diminished motivation and anticipatory pleasure.
DSM-5 Criteria for Schizophrenia - ✔✔Two or more of the following
symptoms for at least 1 month; one symptom should be either 1, 2, or 3:
(1) delusions
(2) hallucinations
(3) disorganized speech
(4) disorganized (or catatonic)
behavior
(5) negative symptoms
,(diminished motivation or emotional expression)
● Functioning in work, relation- ships, or self-care has declined since onset
● Signs of disorder for at least 6 months; or, if during a prodromal or
residual phase, negative symptoms or two or more of symptoms 1-4 in less
severe form
What is the lifetime prevalence of Schizophrenia? - ✔✔Around 1%.
What are the three broad domains of Schizophrenia symptoms? -
✔✔Positive, negative, and disorganization.
Positive Symptoms - ✔✔Behavioral excesses in schizophrenia, such as
hallucinations and delusions.
Delusions - ✔✔Beliefs contrary to reality, firmly held despite evidence to
the contrary and common in paranoid disorders: of control, belief that one
is being manipulated by some external force such as radar, TV, or a
creature from outer space; of grandeur, belief that one is an especially
important or powerful person; of persecution, belief that one is being plotted
against or oppressed by others.
, Thought Insertion - ✔✔A person may believe that thoughts that are not his
or her own have been placed in his or her mind by an external source.
Thought Broadcasting - ✔✔A person may believe that his or her thoughts
are broadcast or transmitted, so that others know what he or she is
thinking.
Grandiose Delusions - ✔✔Found in paranoid schizophrenia, delusional
disorder, and mania, an exaggerated sense of one's importance, power,
knowledge, or identity.
Ideas of Reference - ✔✔Delusional thinking that reads personal
significance into seemingly trivial remarks or activities of others and
completely unrelated events.
Hallucinations - ✔✔Perceptions in any sensory modality without relevant
and adequate external stimuli.
Negative Symptoms - ✔✔Behavioral deficits in schizophrenia, which
include flat affect, anhedonia, asociality, alogia, and avolition.
Avolition - ✔✔A negative symptom in schizophrenia in which the individual
lacks interest and drive.
Asociality - ✔✔A negative symptom of schizophrenia marked by an
inability to form close relationships and to feel intimacy.
QUESTIONS AND ANWERS GRADED A+
Schizophrenia - ✔✔A disorder characterized by disturbances in thought,
emotion, and behavior; disordered thinking in which ideas are not logically
related; delusional beliefs; faulty perception, such as hallucinations;
disturbances in attention; disturbances in motor activity; blunted expression
of emotion; reduced desire for interpersonal relations and withdrawal from
people; diminished motivation and anticipatory pleasure.
DSM-5 Criteria for Schizophrenia - ✔✔Two or more of the following
symptoms for at least 1 month; one symptom should be either 1, 2, or 3:
(1) delusions
(2) hallucinations
(3) disorganized speech
(4) disorganized (or catatonic)
behavior
(5) negative symptoms
,(diminished motivation or emotional expression)
● Functioning in work, relation- ships, or self-care has declined since onset
● Signs of disorder for at least 6 months; or, if during a prodromal or
residual phase, negative symptoms or two or more of symptoms 1-4 in less
severe form
What is the lifetime prevalence of Schizophrenia? - ✔✔Around 1%.
What are the three broad domains of Schizophrenia symptoms? -
✔✔Positive, negative, and disorganization.
Positive Symptoms - ✔✔Behavioral excesses in schizophrenia, such as
hallucinations and delusions.
Delusions - ✔✔Beliefs contrary to reality, firmly held despite evidence to
the contrary and common in paranoid disorders: of control, belief that one
is being manipulated by some external force such as radar, TV, or a
creature from outer space; of grandeur, belief that one is an especially
important or powerful person; of persecution, belief that one is being plotted
against or oppressed by others.
, Thought Insertion - ✔✔A person may believe that thoughts that are not his
or her own have been placed in his or her mind by an external source.
Thought Broadcasting - ✔✔A person may believe that his or her thoughts
are broadcast or transmitted, so that others know what he or she is
thinking.
Grandiose Delusions - ✔✔Found in paranoid schizophrenia, delusional
disorder, and mania, an exaggerated sense of one's importance, power,
knowledge, or identity.
Ideas of Reference - ✔✔Delusional thinking that reads personal
significance into seemingly trivial remarks or activities of others and
completely unrelated events.
Hallucinations - ✔✔Perceptions in any sensory modality without relevant
and adequate external stimuli.
Negative Symptoms - ✔✔Behavioral deficits in schizophrenia, which
include flat affect, anhedonia, asociality, alogia, and avolition.
Avolition - ✔✔A negative symptom in schizophrenia in which the individual
lacks interest and drive.
Asociality - ✔✔A negative symptom of schizophrenia marked by an
inability to form close relationships and to feel intimacy.
