PSYB32H3 Chapter 11: undefined Chapter 11: PSYB32 Chapter 11: Key Terms
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Schizophrenia: a psychotic disorder characterized by major disturbances in thought, emotion, and behaviour: disorder thinking in which ideas are not logically related, faulty perception and attention, flat or inappropriate affect, and bizarre disturbances in motor activity. People with schizophrenia withdraw from other people and reality, often into a fantasy life of delusions and hallucinations. Positive symptoms: excess or distortions, such as disorganized speech, hallucinations, and delusions. They"re the presence of too much of a behaviour that is not apparent in most people. Disorganized speech / formal thought disorder: problems in organizing ideas and in speaking so that a listener can understand. Incoherence: in schizophrenia, an aspect of thought disorder wherein verbal expression is marked by disconnectedness, fragmented thoughts, and jumbled phrases. Loose associations (derailment): in schizophrenia, an aspect of thought disorder wherein the client has difficulty sticking to one topic and drifts off on a train of associations evoked by an idea from the past.
