PSYCH257 Lecture : Abnormal Psychology 2nd CDN edition Chapter 13

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH257
• Professor: Uzma Rehman

Document Summary

Broad spectrum of cognitive/emotional dysfunctions; affects 1% of pop. Delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior, and inappropriate emotions. Kraepeliin: combined (originally separate) insanity symptoms into dementia praecox". Catatonia: alternate immobility & excited agitation, hebephrenic: immature emotionality, & paranoia. Distinguished dp from bipolar disorder, diff due to dp has early age of onset and poor outcome. Bleuler: intro"d term schizophrenia": underlying issue was the associative splitting of basic personality functions. Schizophrenia has a number of behaviours/symptoms that aren"t necc. shared by all people given the disorder. Instead: clusters of symptoms make up schizophrenia: eg. hallucinations, unrealistic beliefs, delusions. Psychotic: used for many unusual behaviours but usu. Schizo: affects all function: not actually violent/split personality; Diff. b/w positive, negative, and disorganized symptoms; usu. need 2+ symptoms of either to be diagnosed. Positive: active manifestations of abnormal behavior/excess or distortion of normal behavior ex. Cotard"s syndrome: body part changed in impossible way; capgras: someone known switched with a double.