Etiology
Underlying etiology known
What is a disease
Cognitions are a critical mediator in the relationship among environment/behavior/affect
What is Cognitive Theory?
•Biochemicals that act as messengers carrying impulses from one neuron, or nerve cell, to another in the brain and in other parts of the nervous system
What are neurotransmitters?
Presence of one or more positive symptoms lasting 1 day to 1 month
What is Brief Psychotic Disorder?
Delusions, Hallucinations, Disorganized Speech, Grossly Disorganized
What are positive symptoms?
Observable behavior or state
What is a symptom
•Disorders are symptoms of underlying characterological developmental problems
What is psychoanalytic theory?
•Molecules on the membrane of an adjacent neuron
What are receptors?
Two or more symptoms in a 1month period, one has to be delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech lasting 1month to 6 months.
What is Schizophreniform Disorder?
Fluctuating changes in emotional weather
What is affect?
•A cluster of symptoms not believed to be due to some other pervasive condition; no implication of a specific etiology
What is a disorder
Psychopathology learned through social forces
What is social learning theory?
•Slight gap between the synaptic terminal of one neuron and the dendrite of another neuron
What is a synapse?
An uninterrupted period of illness where delusions occur in the absence of a major mood episode.
What is schizoaffective disorder?
Restricted affect, abolition, cognitive deficits
What are negative symptoms
Treatments that target the causal factors of psychological disorders
What is Therapy
Disorders are due to brain dysfunctions, biochemical imbalances, and genetic disorders
What is medical/biological theory?
•Occurs when the neuron that initially released the neurotransmitter into the synapse reabsorbs the neurotransmitter
What is reuptake?
Form of psychosis where individuals alternate between clear thinking and communication to loss of touch with reality. 6+ months
What is Schizophrenia
Ideas that an individual believes to be true but that are highly unlikely or impossible
What are delusions?
Set of ideas that provides a framework for questioning, gathering, and interpreting information about a phenomenon
What is theory
Disorders from denial of goodness/drives. Imbalance of personal ideas and environmental restrictions
What is humanistic theory?
Occurs when the receiving neuron releases an enzyme into the synapse that breaks down the neurotransmitter into other biochemicals
What is degradation?
Gross impairment in reality testing and incorrectly evaluating the accuracy of perceptions and thoughts
What is psychosis?
Lost interest in everything in life
Anhedonia