PSY 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Asociality, Grandiosity, Avolition
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Schizophrenia: severely impaired cognitive processes, personality disintegration, affective disturbances, and social withdrawal. Psychosis: condition involving loss of contact with or distorted view of reality. Lifetime prevalence: 1% of us population, slightly more in males than females. Four symptom categories: positive symptoms, negative symptoms, cognitive symptoms, psychomotor abnormalities. Involve unusual thoughts or perceptions, such as: delusions, hallucinations, disordered thinking, bizarre behavior. Delusional themes: delusions of grandeur, delusions of control, delusions of thought broadcasting, delusions of persecution, delusions of reference, thought withdrawal. Hallucinations: sensory perceptions not directly attributable to environmental stimuli: Coping strategies: distraction, ignoring, selective listening, setting limits. Disorganized thought and speech: primary characteristic of schizophrenia, loosening of associations (cognitive slippage) Continual shifting from topic to topic without any apparent logic or meaningful connection between thoughts: incoherent speech or bizarre, idiosyncratic responses, over- inclusiveness or abnormal categorization. Catatonia: characterized by marked disturbances in motor activities. Grossly abnormal psychomotor behavior: extremes in activity levels.
