Schizophrenia disorder

Disorganized thinking,Disturbed Perception and inappropriate emotion and actions

• Delusions-false beliefs

           Ex: believing your someone you're not

• Hallucinations-sensory experiences 

           Ex:seeing or hearing something that's not there

• Disorganized schizophrenia - flat speech little movement inappropriate emotion 

• Paranoid schizophrenia-then a person has the feeling someone is out to get them and has delusion and/or hallucinations

• Catatonic schizophrenia-Parrot like repeating of speech or movement

Personality diorders

ways of behaving affecting their ability to work

• Antisocial personality disorder-No empathy ; looks at the world as hostile and just looking out for themselves 

• Dependent Personality disorder- Then a person relays to much on attention of others

• Histrionic personality disorder- Then a person feel the needs to be the center of attention

• Narcissistic personality disorder -Then a person are to full in themselves thinking they are the center of the universe

Mood disorder high

Experience extreme ,inappropriate emotion

• Depression-Unhappy for about two weeks with no cause

• Major depression-"the conman cold"

• Dysthymic disorder-Mild depression every day for two years

• Seasonal affective disorder-person experience depression in different condition of the weather or season or amount or light out 

• Bipolar disorder-then a person experiences periods of depression and manic episodes high and low emotions 

Dissociative Disorder

Disruption in the conscious 

• Psychogenic Amnesia-One cannot remember thing with no physiological basis for the disruption in memory

• Dissociative fugue-  People find themselves in unfamiliar enviroment

• Dissociative identity disorder-when a person has several personality rather than one

Somatoform Disorder

Person manifest a psychological problem through a physiological symptom

• Hypochondria-Then the person has frequent physical complains but medical doctors cant locate the cause 

• Conversion Disorder-Then a person has severe physical problems with no biological reason 

                  Ex: they go blind or paralyzes 

Anxiety Disorder

     Group where which condition primary symptoms are anxiety and defenses against anxiety 

   

•   Phobia-Person has an extreme or irrational fear to something

                  Ex:Claustrophobia-fear of enclosed spaces

                       Agoraphobia: fear of being in public place 

• Generalized anxiety Disorder (GAD)-a person is continuously tense, worried and over sensitive

• Panic disorder-Where a person experience a long episode of terror ,chest pain choking and etc. 

• Obsessive-Compulsive disorder-where a person has unwanted thoughts they feel the need to engage in a particular way

                     Ex:organization; dirt ;germs 

• Post-traumatic stress disorder-flashbacks or nightmares of the terrifically event

                    Ex:War veteran   

Personality Test's

• Protective test-designed to trigger ones inner dynamics

• Thematic Apperception Test (TAT)-People express their inner feelings and interests though  stories they make up

• Rorschach Inkblot Test-Most used test is a set of 10 inkblots its used to identify people inner feeling by analyzing interpretation of the blots

                    Ex:

• Minnesota Multiphazic personality Inventory (MMPI)- Most researched and clinically used. Primaly used to identify emotional disorder but now used for many purposes

             Ex:

Seven psych perspective

• Neuroscience perspective-Focus on how the body and brain create our memories and sensory experiences 

• Evolutionary perspective-Focus on we behave the way we do because we inherited those behaviors

               Ex:Darwinism:your parents or grandparents

• Psychodynamic perspective-our behaviors comes from unconscious drives 

• Behavioral perspective-Focus on our observable behaviors only cares about behaviors 

• Social-Cultural perspective-Focus on how your culture affects your behavior 

• Humanistic perspective-Focus on positive growth and attempt to gain self actualization