Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Emil Kraepelin, Psychomotor Retardation, Waxy Flexibility

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Unusual thinking, distorted perceptions, and odd behaviours. Psychosis loss of contact with reality. Delusion of influence ability of others to read your mind. Emil kraepelin called it dementia (pervasive disturbances of perceptual and cognitive faculties) praecox (early life onset) Delusions: perse(cid:272)utory (cid:894)they"re (cid:272)o(cid:373)i(cid:374)g to get (cid:373)e(cid:895, delusions of influence (others can read my mind) Hallucinations: verbal, auditory, olfactory (smell, somatic (feelings of pain or deterioration of parts of skin, etc. , gustatory (taste, prese(cid:374)(cid:272)e does(cid:374)"t al(cid:449)ays (cid:373)ea(cid:374) s(cid:272)hizophre(cid:374)ia. Catatonia (arms held out parallel to shoulders) and waxy flexibility (limbs will stay where you move them to) Behaviours, emotions, or thought processes that are absent in people with schizophrenia. Anhedonia no pleasure out of anything. Avolition (cid:374)o (cid:373)oti(cid:448)atio(cid:374), do(cid:374)"t (cid:449)a(cid:374)t to do a(cid:374)ythi(cid:374)g. Alogia decrease in quantity or quality of speech. Psychomotor retardation slow mental or physical activities. Cognitive impairments trou(cid:271)le lear(cid:374)i(cid:374)g (cid:374)e(cid:449) (cid:373)aterial, (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:374)tratio(cid:374) is(cid:374)"t good, trou(cid:271)le processing information. Significant human toll on the individual and the family (quality of life)