[PSYC 241] - Midterm Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (18 pages long)

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 241
• Professor: Christopher Bowie

Document Summary

Distortion of reality: perceptual/ cognitive: perceptual: (cid:498)voice in the head(cid:499, cognitive: how the world functions. Emotional disconnection: control of emotional feelings (feelings to hold on to) Schizophrenia vs. psychosis: psychosis-broad term referring to a disconnection from reality (typically manifests as hallucinations and/or delusions, schizophrenia: a type of psychosis with disturbed thought, emotion, language, and behaviour. It is a brain disease(s), a disconnection between the brain and the external world it perceives and interacts with. Kraepelin (1898)- dementia praecox: early onset, progressively deteriorating course, mental efficiency is always diminished to a considerable extent. The patients are distracted, inattentive, tired, dull, do not take pleasure in work, their mind wanders, they lose the connection, they cannot keep the thought in mind . Passive (i. e. , selective: two types of attentional disturbances: Hallucinations, delusions, disorganized behaviour and thoughts derived from these fundamental symptoms. The positive-negative symptoms dichotomy as a conceptual model of. Criterion a (2 or more out of 5)