Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Substantia Nigra, Weight Gain, Echopraxia

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Rod Martin

Document Summary

Psychotic disorder: out of touch with reality. Most patients unable to care for themselves: cant hold down jobs and even basic care like hygiene and cooking. 40-60% live with family members others are hospitalized or homeless. 300,000 canadians - 1 / 12 hospital beds. A major world-wide health problem: hallucinations- hearing voices, delusions- false beliefs. Disordered thinking (speech) incoherence- really hard to understand them the way this becomes observable is through their speech. Incoherence - word salad : in severe cases, speak but it is just a lot of different words jumbled together but they don"t make sense: when they are talking but they don"t make sense. Neologisms: made up words that don"t exist that are thrown into their text *exam ex. Loose associations- word associations- jumps from one thought to another. Perseveration person gets stuck on one line of thinking and can"t shift to another thought, coming back to the same topic.