Psychology 2030A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Reduced Affect Display, Emil Kraepelin, Grey Matter

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2030A/B
• Professor: David Vollick

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Psychology 2030a chapter 10 lecture 2. Unusual thinking, distorted perceptions + odd behaviours. Psychosis loss of contact with reality. Emil kraepelin: first to give name to disorder dementia praecox, dementia = pervasive disturbances of perceptual + cognitive faculties, praecox = early life onset. Positive symptoms absent in healthy people. Unusual thoughts, feelings + behaviours: not just odd or eclectic have to be bizarre. Delusions: persecutory delusion someone is out to get me , delusion of influence people can read my mind . Hallucinations verbal, auditory, olfactory, somatic, gustatory (taste) Presence of these doesn"t always signify schizophrenia. Catatonia + waxy flexibility: catatonia staying in same physical position for abnormal period of time. Negative symptoms behaviours, emotions + thought processes present in normal people, lacking in schizophrenics. Avolition lack of motivation, even for basic daily activities (e. g. bathing) Alogia decrease in quantity/quality of speech. Psychomotor retardation slowing of motor activities (e. g. speech, movement)