Psychology 2032A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Actus Reus, Stimulus Modality, Panic Attack

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2032A/B
• Professor: Peter Hoaken

Document Summary

Assessing fitness and the not criminally responsible designation. Jonathans explanation is i had to disrupt the circuitry : he is arrested, hospitalized and declared not criminally responsible, actus reus but no mens rea, diagnosis in question is schizophrenia. Schizophrenia: not split personality , a disease of psychosis, with a variety of perceptual, cognitive, and social abnormalities, commonly get into trouble, due to disorganized thoughts, aggitation. Incoherence - speech that is completely incomprehensible ( word salad": grossly disorganized or abnormal motor behaviour (including catatonia, childlike silliness to unpredictable agitation , untriggered agitation (i. e. sudden swearing, catatonia- not as common presently. Intonation of speech ( prosody": avolition- inability to initiate and sustain goal-directed activities, alogia- poverty of speech brief, laconic and empty replies to questions, anhedonia- decreased ability to experience pleasure, asociality- apparent lack of interest in social interactions. If she can"t harm others, she"ll begin to harm herself.