PSYC 102 : Ch 16 -Psychological Disorders cont'd

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Sherri Atwood

Document Summary

Involves disturbances in thinking, speech, perception, emotion, and behavior not like did. Characteristics: (cid:215) misinterprets attention, thought, or perception unwanted thoughts enter (cid:215) withdraws from social interactions strange communications and disorganized behavior (often speak in rhymes than meaning) Delusions: false beliefs in the face of evidence that should be destroyed. Eg: believe that his brain is turned to glass by enemies from outer space with jesus as the agent. Hallucinations: false perceptions that have a compelling sense of reality. Emotions can be affected: blunted affect (less sadness, joy, anger), flat affect(no emotions), inappropriate affect (emotions don"t match situation) : delusions of persecution, believe others will harm them; suspicion, anxiety, anger. Disorganized unable to function on their own, emotional responses are inappropriate. : confusion, weird adaptive behavior, difficult to communicate to, silly and childlike, : motor disturbances (muscular to random/repetitive movements), alternate b/w weird. : show symptoms and thought disorders of the above types but still a little.