Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Waxy Flexibility, Reduced Affect Display, Clang

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: Ian Nicholson

Document Summary

Lecture 4: chapter 10: hallucination: a false sensory perception. Positive symptoms: delusions (persecutory and of influence, presence does not always = schizophrenia, loose associations (derailment, thought blocking, clang associations, catatonia and waxy flexibility. Negative symptoms: behaviours, emotions, or thought processes that are absent in people with schizophrenia, blunted affect, anhedonia, avolition, alogia, pyschomotor retardation. Cognitive impairments: cognitive impairments, difficult to learn things verbally, process information slowly, impaired memory, social cognition, cant understand social norms or interpret social information, this leads to a hard time establishing relationships, echolalia: repeating what other people say. Functional impairment of schizophrenia: significant human toll on the individual and the family (quality of life, higher risk of being victims and perpetrators of violence. Epidemiology of schizophrenia: prevalence rats = 1% of general population, acute or gradual onset, prodromal phase (social withdrawal or poor hygiene, acute phase (exhibits positive symptoms, residual phase (psychotic symptoms are no longer present but negative symptoms remain)