PSYCH101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Taste, Tardive Dyskinesia, Chorea

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH101
• Professor: Richard Ennis

Document Summary

Schizophrenia means split mind as in something is being split off. Schizophrenic individuals are dangerous: statistically speaking, no. Once a schizophrenic, always a schizophrenic: somewhat true, but many enjoy full recovery, cautious use of in remission to protect them from the law. Schizophrenic individuals are creative: small positive correlation (except paranoid type, may be a product of divergent thinking. Perceptual symptoms: disturbed perceptions, often experience hallucinations, perceptual experiences not shared by others, most common form of hallucination is hearing noises that no one else hears, can also be visual, olfactory, tactile, or gustatory (taste) Inappropriate emotions: odd and socially inappropriate responses (such as amusement hearing of death, flat affect: facial/body expression is flat with no visible emotional content. Impaired perception of emotions, including not reading other"s feelings and intentions. Inappropriate actions/behaviour: errors in social prevention, disorganized, unfiltered thinking, delusions and hallucinations, repetitive behaviours such as rocking and rubbing, catatonia, such as sitting motionless and unresponsive for hours.