PSY-200 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Schizotypal Personality Disorder, Dependent Personality Disorder
6 Dec 2016
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Delusions: one of the symptoms of schizophrenia; false beliefs or exaggerations held despite evidence to the contrary, such as the idea that one is a famous person. Negative symptoms: symptoms that include no responsiveness, immobility, emotional flatness, problems with speech, and inability to complete tasks. Cognitive symptoms: problems with working memory, attention, verbal and visual learning and memory, reasoning and problem solving, processing, and speech. Word salad: the speech of people with schizophrenia, which may follow grammatical rules but be nonsensical in terms of content. Diathesis-stress model: explanation for the origin of psychological disorders as a combination of biological predispositions (diathesis) plus stress or an abusive environment. Depressive disorder: the highest-order category of the depressive disorders; it subsumes all forms of depression, including major depressive disorder and persistent depressive disorder. Major depressive disorder: a mood disorder characterized by pervasive low mood, lack of motivation, low energy, and feelings of worthlessness and guilt that last for at least 2 consecutive weeks.
