PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Amygdala, Word Salad, Temporal Lobe

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Mark Coates

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They are grouped together because they"re symptoms that are alike. Psychotic can be difficult to define and includes a wide range of behaviours and inner experiences. Disorganization in speech and thought (one of the key things for psychosis) Positive symptoms - exaggerated or distorted versions of normal behaviour. These things are extremely low in truth, or not true at all. Based on misinterpretation of perceptions or experiences. The delusion can naturally flow from things that are actually happening. Hard time reading social cues, can lead to interpretation. They bring out abnormal behaviours of others in social settings. Variety of themes are common (religious, persecutory {belief that people are out to get me} Somatic delusions {something is wrong with me body} Will have delusions for most of the course of their illness, but they will change and get more elaborate with time.