PSYCH101 Lecture 7: Lecture 7

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Steve Spencer

Document Summary

Disorganized thinking - when the person talks the ideas don"t make sense together. Delusions - untrue but the person strongly believes them, typically paranoid delusions. Hearing sat an whistling in ear auditory hallucinations are common (hearing voices) Disorganized and disturbed (thought of as positive) Incorporate emotions (laughing when someone is telling a sad story), actions (catatonia) and social withdrawal (more negative) Flat affect - no emotion to anything. People with disease for years will in most cases have brain damage. Some ppl don"t always have all of the symptoms. Disease typically develops in late teens or early 20s. Psychoanalytic - flowing of unconscious into the conscious. Biological - gene involved in trimming connections in the frontal lobe of the brain. Certain drugs that reduce the effects of dopamine reduce the major positive symptoms, awful side effects. Social cognitive - schizo comes out in a genetic component and stressful life experiences (ex.