PSY E245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Chlorpromazine, Acetaldehyde, Psych
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Hypokrisia biological diathesis that occurs throughout the brain, making nerve cells abnormally reactive to incoming stimulation. Produces cognitive slippage subtle disturbance, information is disorganized, incoherent and scrambled. Causes aversive drift the brain to amplifies feelings of pain and. Biological factors weakens pleasure, making interpersonal relations difficult. Schizotype a person experiencing cognitive slippage and aversive drift. Evidence for heritability; likelihood of a person developing schizophrenia is much. No one gene is responsible for schizophrenia. Is schizophrenia a brain disease? higher if a biological relative also has it. Researchers believed that psychological capacities ascribed to the frontal brain were impaired in schizophrenia. Fas technique name as many words that begin with f, a and s as possible in 3 one minute trials. Wisconsin card sorting test individual is asked to sort cards based on some rule (colour, shape etc. ), and must determine when the rule changes without being told.
