schizotypy
Sign in to saveIn psychology, schizotypy is a theoretical concept that posits a continuum of personality characteristics and experiences, ranging from normal dissociative, imaginative states to extreme states of mind related to psychosis, especially schizophrenia. The continuum of personality proposed in schizotypy is in contrast to a categorical view of psychosis, wherein psychosis is considered a particular (usually pathological) state of mind, which the person either has or does not have.
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- Development of the concept
- The relationship between schizotypy, mental health and mental illness
- Quasi-dimensional approach
- Dimensional approach
- Fully dimensional approach
- Relationship to other personality traits and sociodemographics
- Personality disorders
- Cognitive function
- Autism
- Possible biological bases of schizotypy
- Cognitive imbalances and tradeoffs
- Predictive processing
- Hormone abnormalities
- Oxytocin and testosterone
- Anhedonia
- Evolutionary Perspectives
- Weakness of inhibitory mechanisms
- Negative priming
- Semantic activation without conscious identification
- Attention, working memory, and executive functions
- Abnormalities of arousal
- Dissociation of different arousal systems
- Hyperarousal
- Aberrant salience hypothesis
- See also
- References
- Further reading
In psychology, schizotypy is a theoretical concept that posits a continuum of personality characteristics and experiences, ranging from normal dissociative, imaginative states to extreme states of mind related to psychosis, especially schizophrenia. The continuum of personality proposed in schizotypy is in contrast to a categorical view of psychosis, wherein psychosis is considered a particular (usually pathological) state of mind, which the person either has or does not have.
==Development of the concept==