PSYC 2490 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Reduced Affect Display, Etiology, Delusional Disorder

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2490
• Professor: Leda Worobec

Document Summary

Attentional deficiencies: hypervigilance, sensitive to extraneous sounds during the early stages of the disorder, unable to make sense of their environment. "his hearing is different when he"s ill. one of the first things we notive when he"s deteriorating in his heightened sense of hearing. He cannot filter out anything he hears each and every sound : dysfunction in parts of the brain, ex: basal ganglia that may act as a gating mechanism, training in attention skills, may help reduce attentional deficits. Cognitive impairment: visual and verbal learning and memory, decreased speed of information processing. Inability to pay attention: how fast the information is understood, abstract reasoning and executive functioning. In the frontal lobe, ability to plan, organize, think ahead. Social cognition: difficulties perceiving, undersanding, and interpreting social information i. e. other people"s attitudes, beliefs, etc, deficient in basic skills required for positive social interaction, perceive social nuances.