PSYC 3140 Study Guide - Final Guide: Schizophrenia, Avolition, Phenothiazine
28 Nov 2016
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People with schizophrenia experience psychosis: loss of contact with reality. Downward drift theory: theory that schizophrenia causes people to fall in lower class, or it causes them not to be able to rise in class therefore explaining the prevalence amongst lower ses individuals. Average age of onset males = 23 , females = 28. 3 categories: positive symptoms, negative symptoms, psychomotor symptoms. Positive symptoms are pathological excesses or bizarre additions to a person"s behaviour. Delusions, disorganized thinking/speech, heightened perceptions and hallucinations and inappropriate affect are the positive symptoms that most commonly found in schizophrenia. Delusions: are ideas that people believe whole-heartedly, yet there is no basis in fact for that belief. People with this form of delusion have the fear that they are being plotted against, spied on, slandered, threatened etc. or are being deliberately victimized. Delusions of reference: attaching special meanings/interpretations to others actions or to objects or events.
