PSYC 3014 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Clairvoyance, Magical Thinking, Schizophrenia
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Prevalence and cause: development, early childhood clinical features, mild physical abnormalities, poor motor coordination, mild cognitive problems. Social problems - they don"t interact well: prodromal phase, 85% of people that experience schizophrenia, 1-2 years before serious symptoms, less severe, yet unusual. Ideas of reference (thunderstorms) - individual that feels thunderstorms have something to do with them, like they"re communicating. Isolation: magical thinking (clairvoyant) - think they have magical abilities, marked impairment in functioning. Lack of initiative, interests, or energy: cultural factors, possible genes involved in schizophrenia, major generalization - "genes are responsible for making some individuals vulnerable to schizophrenia" Inherited vulnerability for schizophrenia: multiple gene variances. Interaction with the environment: chemical action of the drugs that help many people with this disorder, abnormalities in the working of the brain of people with schizophrenia, environmental risk factors that may precipitate the onset of symptoms. Same genetics and environment (general: differences, age of onset.
