PSYCH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 40: Disorganized Schizophrenia, Personal Grooming, Speech Disorder

• School: UW
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 101
• Professor: Pickrell

Document Summary

Psych 101: intro to psych - lecture 40 - psychological disorders (continued): Schizophrenia: severe disturbances in thinking, speech, perception, emotion, and behavior. Psychotic disorder - involves a loss of contact with reality, and bizarre behaviors and experiences split brain . Delusions: would be sufficient to destroy them mentally disorganized and confused. Word salad false belief that are sustained in the face of evidence that normally. Disturbance of affect false perceptions that have a compelling sense of reality - Severe deterioration of adaptive behavior, such as personal hygiene, social skills, and self-care. Motor disturbances ranging from muscular rigidity to random or repetitive movements. Alternate between stuperous states and agitated excitement. Wavy flexibility: limbs can be molded into positions that they will maintain for hours. People who exhibit some of the symptoms and thought disorders of the other categories but who do not have enough of the specific criteria to be diagnosed in those categories.