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Psychosis - ANS ✔✔inability to differentiate what is real and what is unreal
positive symptoms of psychosis - ANS ✔✔delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech,
disorganized behavior
negative symptoms of psychosis - ANS ✔✔lack of expected or normal emotions, behaviors, and
motivations
4 A's - ANS ✔✔- Association (word salad)
-Affect (MOOD)
-Ambivalence (LOVE AND HATE)
-Autistic (PRIVATE/ CUT OFF)
Schizophrenia - ANS ✔✔Disorder consisting of unreal or disorganized thoughts and perceptions
as well as verbal, cognitive, and behavioral deficits
Schizophrenia Spectrum - ANS ✔✔The set of psychiatric disorders related to schizophrenia that
vary along a severity continuum
Delusions - ANS ✔✔disturbances in inferential thinking that involve firmly held beliefs that are
untrue
types of delusions - ANS ✔✔Persecutory, Grandiose, Somatic, Religious, Nihilistic
,Persecutory Delusions - ANS ✔✔False belief that oneself or one's loved ones are being
persecuted, watched, or conspired against by others
Delusion of Reference - ANS ✔✔Belief that everyday events, objects, or other people have an
unusual personal significance
ex: something happens in a movie and they think its specifically meant for them
Grandiose Delusions - ANS ✔✔False belief that one has great power, knowledge, or talent or
that one is a famous and powerful person
delusion of being controlled - ANS ✔✔Belief that one's thoughts, feelings, or behaviors are
being imposed or controlled by an external force
thought broadcasting - ANS ✔✔Belief that one's thoughts are being broadcast from one's mind
for others to hear
Delusions of Thought Insertion - ANS ✔✔Belief that another person or object is inserting
thoughts into one's mind
thought withdrawal - ANS ✔✔Belief that thoughts are being removed from one's mind by
another person or by an object
Delusions of guilt or sin - ANS ✔✔False belief that one has committed a terrible act or is
responsible for a terrible event
, somatic delusion - ANS ✔✔False belief that one's appearance or part of one's body is diseased
or altered
Hallucinations - ANS ✔✔Perceptual experiences that are not real
types of hallucinations - ANS ✔✔auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory, tactile
Formal Thought Disorder - ANS ✔✔State of highly disorganized thinking (also known as
loosening of associations/derailment)
example -- "The salad was green as I left the front porch yesterday. My uncle is a nice person
and dogs like to swim in rivers when the sky is very cloudy."
disorganized behavior - ANS ✔✔Unpredictable and apparently untriggered agitation—shouting,
swearing, pacing
Catatonia - ANS ✔✔Group of disorganized behaviors that reflect an extreme lack of
responsiveness to the outside world/ have little to no emotional response to events
Restricted Affect (negative symptom) - ANS ✔✔A symptom in which emotional expression is
reduced or absent
Avolition (negative symptom) - ANS ✔✔Inability to persist at common goal-directed activities
cognitive deficits (negative symptom) - ANS ✔✔Deficits in basic cognitive processes, including
attention, memory and processing speed
answered to pass
Psychosis - ANS ✔✔inability to differentiate what is real and what is unreal
positive symptoms of psychosis - ANS ✔✔delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech,
disorganized behavior
negative symptoms of psychosis - ANS ✔✔lack of expected or normal emotions, behaviors, and
motivations
4 A's - ANS ✔✔- Association (word salad)
-Affect (MOOD)
-Ambivalence (LOVE AND HATE)
-Autistic (PRIVATE/ CUT OFF)
Schizophrenia - ANS ✔✔Disorder consisting of unreal or disorganized thoughts and perceptions
as well as verbal, cognitive, and behavioral deficits
Schizophrenia Spectrum - ANS ✔✔The set of psychiatric disorders related to schizophrenia that
vary along a severity continuum
Delusions - ANS ✔✔disturbances in inferential thinking that involve firmly held beliefs that are
untrue
types of delusions - ANS ✔✔Persecutory, Grandiose, Somatic, Religious, Nihilistic
,Persecutory Delusions - ANS ✔✔False belief that oneself or one's loved ones are being
persecuted, watched, or conspired against by others
Delusion of Reference - ANS ✔✔Belief that everyday events, objects, or other people have an
unusual personal significance
ex: something happens in a movie and they think its specifically meant for them
Grandiose Delusions - ANS ✔✔False belief that one has great power, knowledge, or talent or
that one is a famous and powerful person
delusion of being controlled - ANS ✔✔Belief that one's thoughts, feelings, or behaviors are
being imposed or controlled by an external force
thought broadcasting - ANS ✔✔Belief that one's thoughts are being broadcast from one's mind
for others to hear
Delusions of Thought Insertion - ANS ✔✔Belief that another person or object is inserting
thoughts into one's mind
thought withdrawal - ANS ✔✔Belief that thoughts are being removed from one's mind by
another person or by an object
Delusions of guilt or sin - ANS ✔✔False belief that one has committed a terrible act or is
responsible for a terrible event
, somatic delusion - ANS ✔✔False belief that one's appearance or part of one's body is diseased
or altered
Hallucinations - ANS ✔✔Perceptual experiences that are not real
types of hallucinations - ANS ✔✔auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory, tactile
Formal Thought Disorder - ANS ✔✔State of highly disorganized thinking (also known as
loosening of associations/derailment)
example -- "The salad was green as I left the front porch yesterday. My uncle is a nice person
and dogs like to swim in rivers when the sky is very cloudy."
disorganized behavior - ANS ✔✔Unpredictable and apparently untriggered agitation—shouting,
swearing, pacing
Catatonia - ANS ✔✔Group of disorganized behaviors that reflect an extreme lack of
responsiveness to the outside world/ have little to no emotional response to events
Restricted Affect (negative symptom) - ANS ✔✔A symptom in which emotional expression is
reduced or absent
Avolition (negative symptom) - ANS ✔✔Inability to persist at common goal-directed activities
cognitive deficits (negative symptom) - ANS ✔✔Deficits in basic cognitive processes, including
attention, memory and processing speed
