PSY 3142 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Catalepsy, Grey Matter, Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3142
• Professor: Philip Wall

Document Summary

Mental disorders called psychoses are characterized by severe distortions of reality and disturbances in perception, intellectual functioning, a ect, motivation, social relationships, and motor behaviour. They are frequently so incapacitated that voluntary or involuntary hospitalization is required. It is a thought disorder characterized by illogical thinking, lack of reasoning, and inability to recognize reality. Symptoms can be controlled but most of the time not curable. Onset most likely to be the late teenage years, but later for women. After 36 more women then men experience their rst episode. Insanity: doing the same thing over and over but expecting di erent results. In the media: they often do not have the ability to sustain a plan and commit the types of crimes which they are portrayed doing (ie. repetitive mass murders). Symptom speci cities: hallucinations: hearing voices which are commanding or insulting, delusions: persecution, being spied on, or someone is planning to harm them.