PSYC 324 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Dementia Praecox, Mazda Mx-5, Psychosis
11 May 2018
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Psych 342 Lesson 16 Important Concepts
Adoptees' relatives method
studying adoptees' relatives to see if there is a genetic basis to the disorder. It works because
the adoptee was raised in a different environment, therefore ruling that out.
Alogia
Deficiency in the amount or content of speech, a disturbance often seen in people with
schizophrenia.
Anhedonia
Inability to experience pleasure, associated with some mood and schizophrenic disorders.
Auditory Hallucinations
Psychotic disturbance in perception in which a person hears sounds or voices although these
are not real or actually present. The voices are often critical, accusatory, or demanding.
Catatonia
Disorder of movement involving immobility or excited agitation.
Cognitive Slippage
(WEB DEF) is a symptom of several psychiatric diseases and mental disorders associated with
cognition and formal thought disorders. It is manifested in patterns of speech, where categories
and lists become overly broad as concepts unrelated at first glance become related through
tangential connections. For example:
"List some types of cars."
"Let's see, there's Ford, Chevrolet, Toyota, Japan, Rising Sun, Hiroshima, Atomic Bomb, Enola
Gay, oh and Miata."
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Delusion
Psychotic symptom involving disorder of thoughts content and presence of strong beliefs are
misrepresentations of reality. (Reference, grandeur, and persecution)
Dementia praecox
Latin term meaning "premature loss of mind," an early label for what is now called
schizophrenia, emphasizing the disorder's frequent appearance during adolescence. Called
"demance precoce" in French.
Derailment
AKA Loose associations. Deficits in logical continuity of speech, with abrupt movement between
ideas. A characteristic of schizophrenia.
Disorganized Speech
Style of talking often seen in people with schizophrenia, involving incoherence and a lack of
typical logic patterns.
Disorganized Type
Type of schizophrenia featuring disrupted speech and behavior, disjointed delusions and
hallucinations, and silly or flat affect.
Double Blind Communication
According to an obsolete, unsupported theory, the practice of transmitting conflicting messages
that was though to cause schizophrenia.
Expressed Emotion (EE)
Hostility, criticism, and over-involvement demonstrated by some families toward a family
member with a psychological disorder. This can often contribute to the person's relapse.
Extrapyramidal Symptoms
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