PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 29: Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, Binge Eating

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Delroy Paulhus

Document Summary

Personality disorders inflexible & enduring maladaptive pattern of thinking/feeling/behaving causes clinically significant problems (distress to self/others, interpersonal, occupational) Different clusters can overlap, correlate, are not clearly differentiated & set in stone. No consensus reached on dsm 5 for whether they should be conceptualized as traits rather than (cid:272)ategories they are di(cid:373)e(cid:374)sio(cid:374)al (lo(cid:449)-high amounts) Disturbance in integration of identity, memory, or consciousness (e. g. dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, dissociative identity disorder) Adhd inattention impulsivity: 3-7% higher in boys. Autism spectrum: verbal, social, bonds hard time making connections joint attention in own world, repetitive behaviour/stimulation increasing prevalence (1/200 or higher) Split from reality, affects about 1% of people. Symptoms: disorganized thinking, disturbed perceptions: delusions: thinking is fragmented & distorted by false beliefs hallucinations. Hearing/seeing things that are not there (auditory/visual) (cid:862)drea(cid:373)s (cid:271)reaki(cid:374)g i(cid:374)to (cid:449)aki(cid:374)g (cid:272)o(cid:374)s(cid:272)ious(cid:374)ess(cid:863) inappropriate actions: catatonia: period of remaining motionless inappropriate emotions: flat affect: zombie-like state of apparent apathy, no emotion. Positive symptoms (should not be there: hallucinations, delusions inappropriate emotions.