PSYC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: The Soloist, Clanging, Antipsychotic

• School: American River College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 300
• Professor: Fratello

Document Summary

Brain diseases w/ genetic basis and chemical dysfunction. Predisposition that is expressed only if stress triggers it. S & s accept c-b notions about generalized physiological arousal. But accept j-l notions that this arousal is causal. Need both diathesis (vulnerability) and stress (e. g. , abuse) to produce mental illness. Biological or psychological event" => psychological vulnerability & stressful. 1% of population -> 50% hospital beds. But subtle social signs may be seen in children (walker"s home movie. 50-60% cannot work do not marry and live in poverty. Mr. ayers and mr. lopez (the soloist) John nash (a beautiful mind) 1994 nobel prize in economics; paranoid. Disorganized: disorganized speech or behavior, or flat or inappropriate emotion. Catatonic: immobility (or excessive, purposeless movement), extreme negativism, and/or parrot-like repeating of another"s speech or movements. Undifferentiated or residual: schizophrenia symptoms without fitting one of the above types. Genes explain some but not all of disorder.