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What do you mean by Schizotypy?

Schizotypy is a complex psychological concept which describes complex personality features. People with schizotypy show features such as cognitive slippage, uncertainty, preferred aloneness and deficiency for experiencing pleasure. Brad Folley and Sohee Park study shows that schizotypes personality has more thinking power and they are more creative than other normal peoples. Questionnaires such as Perceptual Aberration Scale (PAS), Revised Social Anhedonia Scale (RSAS) and Magical Ideation Scale (MIS) are used for measuring schizotypy.

Four factors related to Schizotypy

  1. Unusual experiences: abnormal perception
  2. Cognitive disorganisation: thoughts become disturb or peripheral
  3. Introverted anhedonia-inability to feel pleasure from social area.
  4. Impulsive nonconformity-Unstable behavior and mood

What are sign and symptoms for Schizotypy?

  • Excessive social anxiety
  • Unusual perceptual experiences, including bodily illusions
  • Odd beliefs or magical thinking, superstitious ness, belief in telepathy or sixth sense. Lack of close friends and confidence
  • Odd thinking and speech
  • Talking to him and ignoring others.

Schizotypy associated with verbal fluency

Abnormality in verbal production is related to positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. If levels of negative schizotypy increased then it show decline ness in verbal fluency. On the other hand if levels of positive schizotypy increased then verbal fluency will also increased.




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