CAS PS 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Tachycardia, Anxiety Disorder, Startle Response

• School: Boston University
• Department: Psychological & Brain Sciences
• Course: CAS PS 101
• Professor: Barry Grant

Document Summary

Acquire fewer reinforcers such as good friends, top jobs. Gravitate to people who confirm negative self-views. Psychological disorder characterized by signs and symptoms: Present for a significant portion of time during a 1-month period. Characteristic symptoms of schizophrenia involve a range of cognitive and emotional dysfunctions that include: Positive - reflect an excess or distortion of normal function. Erroneous beliefs that usually involve a misinterpretation of perceptions or experiences ( reality ) Experience of sensory events without any input from the surrounding environment (auditory most common) Negative - reflect a lessening or loss of normal function. Indicate the absence or insufficiency of normal behavior including: Alogia - restriction of speech, flat response. Abolition - restriction in initiation of goal-directed behavior. Disorganized symptoms - rambling speech, erratic behavior, inappropriate affect. Catatonic - immobility phrensic?/frantic motor activity. Disorganized - frequent incoherence (rambling speech, radical behavior) Severe deterioration in behavior, often incoherent, virtually complete social withdrawal.