PSYC 3082 : Exam 4 Notes
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Three types of symptoms: positive delusions, hallucinations, negative the four as, disorganized disorganized speech, disorganized behavior. The positive symptom cluster (positive because adding things most people don"t have: aka psychotic symptoms , presence of aberrant response, delusions. Inappropriate affect (i. e. , laughing while talking about mother"s death: catatonia spectrum from wild agitation to immobility. Schizophrenia & psychotic disorders: schizophrenia, other psychotic disorders, schizophreniform disorder, brief psychotic disorder, schizoaffective disorder, delusional disorder, shared psychotic disorder. Intact cognitive skills and affect: do not show disorganized behavior, hallucinations and delusions grandeur or persecution, the best prognosis of all types of schizophrenia. Schizophrenia: disorganized type: disorganized speech, disorganized behavior, & flat or inappropriate affect all 3 must be present, hallucinations and delusions if present, tend to be fragmented. Schizoaffective disorder (dsm-iv-tr: uninterrupted period of illness during which, at some point, there is either a mde, &schizophrenia: how to distinguish schizoaffective disorder from comorbid depression/mania. &schizophrenia: schizophrenia symptoms occur outside of the mood episode.
