PSYA02H3 Lecture 6: Lecture 32- Chapter 17 Lecture 6- class and lecture notes

• School: UTSC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYA02H3
• Professor: John Bassili

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Lecture 32: schizophrenia, most severs and common form of psychosis, is it s single thing or multiple, a set of disorders that encompass a variety of symptoms, including disturbances of: perception: hallucinations (perception of things not there: not actually there. cognition: delusions (belief that have no objective basis: out of touch with reality, other people don"t believe. behavior: bizarre behavior such as taking a shower fully dressed: odd, and inappropriate, shower fully dress- doesn"t make sense. emotion: flat affect and social withdrawal: disconnect of thoughts- not rational, note distinction b/w positive and negative symptoms. symptoms that are present that are not normal- positive. things that are missing, that you would expect to have- negative: flat affect, social withdrawal, schizophrenia usually involves a series of acute episodes with periods of remission. Following a severe episode, the patient is rarely completely rid of the disorder.