PSYCH257 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thematic Apperception Test, Mental Disorder, Psychopathology

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH257
• Professor: annapolotskaia

Document Summary

Rorschach test: most used assessment tool in 1960s; description of an image indicates mental illness. 32 ambiguous cards intended to provoke emotional response: what has led up to the event, what is happening atm, what the characters are feeling and thinking, what the outcome of the story was. Categorical each disorder is fundamentally different from one another. Dimensional approach the variety of presentation symptoms (personality assessment and diagnosis) Prototypical each disorder has specific features; any feature must be described by a certain number of symptoms. Appearance and behaviour any unusual actions, is clothing appropriate. Thought processes rate and flow of speech, clarity and content of speech and ideas. Sensorium general awareness of surroundings such as date, place, time, knowledge of self. 10 major categories of abnormal human behaviour: hypochondriasis, depression, hysteria, psychopathic deviate, masculine-feminine, paranoia, psychasthenia, schizophrenia, mania, social introversion. Psychoeducational intellectual and learning disabilities, behavioural and emotional symptoms. Psychophysiological electroencephalogram (eeg), event related potential (erp), evoked.