PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Schizophrenia, Clang, Atypical Antipsychotic

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 034
• Professor: Tootle

Document Summary

Schizophrenia: people who have this disorder, though they previously functioned well or at least acceptably, deteriorate into isolated wilderness of unusual perceptions, odd thoughts, disturbed emotions, and motor abnormalities. Schizophrenia found more in lower level economic levels. Downward drift theory: poor because can"t function. Psychosis: lost contact with reality; don"t have ability to perceive and respond to the environment becomes so disturbed that they may not be able to function. Used to be wastebasket" category for diagnosticians, mostly those in us, labeled anyone who acted unpredictably. Positive symptoms: pathological excesses" or bizarre additions to a person"s behavior (delusions, disorganized thinking and speech, heighten perceptions, inappropriate affect) Delusions: ideas that they believe wholeheartedly but have no basis in fact; strange false belief firmly held despite evidence to the contrary. Of reference: attach special and personal meaning to the actions of others or to various objects or events. Of grandeur: believe themselves to be inventors, religious saviors, or other specially empowered people.