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Psychology Notes 12:2
Course: PSYCH 100, Fall 2010School: UMass (Amherst)
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Notes Psychology 12/2/08 Schizophrenia Bizarre behavior and speech Social withdraw and impaired functioning Psychotic symptoms Severe distortions of reality Disturbed perceptions, thoughts, and emotions Delusions Grandeur Persecution Thought broadcasting or thought insertion Bodily disintegration Delusions of reference Hallucinations Auditory, visual Inappropriate or flat affect, hebephrenic Incoherence; loosening...
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Notes Psychology 12/2/08
Schizophrenia
Bizarre behavior and speech
Social withdraw and impaired functioning
Psychotic symptoms
Severe distortions of reality
Disturbed perceptions, thoughts, and emotions
Delusions
Grandeur
Persecution
Thought broadcasting or thought insertion
Bodily disintegration
Delusions of reference
Hallucinations
Auditory, visual
Inappropriate or flat affect, hebephrenic
Incoherence; loosening of associations
Motor symptoms (catatonic type)
Stupor (unresponsiveness), excitement (purposeless motion), posturing (assuming
bizarre disorders
Inflexible postures)
Personality and maladaptive personality traits
May or may not cause personal distress
Antisocial
Lack of anxiety and guilt
Remorselessly irresponsible, manipulative, hurtful to further own end
No regard for social or legal codes
Histrionic
Self-dramatization
Exaggerated emotionality
Attention-seeking behavior (inappropriately flirtatious)
Often shallow
Narcissistic
Exaggerated self-regard; sense of superiority or entitlement
Hypersensitivity to rejection or insult
Lack of sympathy, absorbed with self concerns
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