PSYC380 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Eye Tracking, Dyskinesia, Blind Experiment

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC380
• Professor: Fowles Timothy

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Chapter 12: schizophrenia spectrum and other psychotic disorders. Schizophrenia: psychotic disorder characterized by disturbances in thinking (delusions), perception (hallucinations), speech, emotions, and behavior. 1860 loss of mind/early and premature onset in adolescence. 1899 catatonia: alternating immobility and excited agitation; hebephrenia: silly and immature emotionality, and paranoia: delusions of grandeur or persecution: dementia praecox distinguished it from bipolar by early age of onset and poor outcome. 1908 schizophrenia term was introduced, split mind : associative splitting: a separation among basic function of human personality (cognition, emotion, and perception) seen by some as the defining characteristic of schizophrenia. Number of behaviors or symptoms that aren"t always seen in every person. Psychotic behavior: in it"s strictest sense, it usually involves delusions (irrational beliefs) and/or hallucinations (sensory experiences in the absence of external events: schizophrenia involves psychotic behavior. More likely to see violence from people with substance abuse and personality disorders rather than those with schizophrenia.