PSY240H1 Chapter 11: Chapter 11 Key Terms & Notes
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Psychosis: the inability to differentiate from what is real and what is unreal. It can take many forms and has many causes. Schizophrenia: most common psychotic disorder disorder consisting of unreal or disorganized thoughts and perceptions as well as verbal, cognitive, and behavioural deficits. Symptoms vary, for example people with this disorder can think and communicate clearly but at other times their thinking and speech can be garbled. At least one month of acute symptoms of delusions, hallucinations, disorganized thought and speech, disorganized behaviour and negative symptoms and at least six months of some symptoms of disorder. Schizophreniform disorder same symptoms as schizophrenia, lasting more than one. Substance-induced psychotic disorder month but less than 6 months. Symptoms of schizophrenia coinciding with symptoms of depression or mania but at least a 2 week period when only symptoms of schizophrenia present. Evidence only of non-bizarre delusions of at least 1 month"s duration; functioning at relatively high level.
