PSYCH257 Study Guide - Final Guide: Railways Act 1921, Schizophreniform Disorder, Asociality

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH257
• Professor: Allison Kelly

Document Summary

What we typically think of as diagnosis (eg. depression, social phobia, schizophrenia) Developmental (typically evident in childhood; eg. autism, mental retardation) & personality disorders (long lasting symptoms and encompass the indiv. "s way of interacting with world (paranoid, borderline, antisocial) Describing and differentiating disorders based on symptoms and course. Treatment and prognosis: main treatments, outcomes. Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders: symptom classes of schizo. Actively showing signs of abnormal behaviour, excess or distortion of normal behaviour. Delusions irrational beliefs (bizarre vs. non-bizarre) hallucinations experience sensory events without input from surrounding environment (auditory, visual, tactile, somatic, olfactory) Avolition a meaning without, volition means an act of willing, choosing, deciding. Avolition: little interesting in doing even the most basic day to day task like bathing. Alogia absence of speech, uninterested in conversation. Effective flattening lack of facial emotions, toneless, stare vacantly, Asociality - without social, lack of motivation to socialize. Unpredictable behaviours that affect speech, motor behaviour, and emotions.