Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dementia Praecox, Emil Kraepelin, Psychosis

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

Document Summary

Psychotic disorders: unusual thinking, disordered perceptions, and odd behaviours, psychosis = a loss of contact with reality, delusion = a false belief, hallucination = a false sensory perception. What is schizophrenia: a severe psychotic disorder, emil kraepelin, dementia praecox, dementia (pervasive of perceptual and cognitive faculties, praecox (early life onset, schizo vs. did, not multiple or split personalities. Positive symptoms: unusual thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and behaviours, delusions (persecutory and of influence, hallucinations (verbal, auditory, olfactory, somatic, gustatory, loose associations, thought blocking, clang associations, catatonia and waxy flexibility. Negative symptoms: behaviours, emotions, or thought processes that are absent in people with schizo, blunted affect. Cognitive impairments: social cognition, visual, verbal, and abstract learning, echolalia, decrease in information processing speed. Functional impairment of schizo: symptom severity equals the level of impairment, significant human toll on the individual and the family (quality of life, higher risk of being victims and perpetrators of violence.