A summary on Psychology & Abnormality specifically aimed at students studying the CAIE 9990 course.
Includes tables of studies & their strengths and weaknesses
Includes issues and debates
Includes theories & explanations
- Always refer to the DSM-5 for classifying - Consists of persistent delusions with other normal
behaviours
disorders
- Types of delusional disorders:
- Schizophrenia has 1+ of these symptoms:
- Erotomanic: delusion or belief that an
- Hallucinations individual is in love with them
- Delusions - Grandiose: false or unusual belief about a
person’s greatness
- Disorganised thoughts
- Jealous: Implies that their spouses or partner
- Catatonic behaviour (unreactive
behaviour) is being unfaithful
- Negative symptoms (loss of normal - Persecutory: the false conviction that others
function) are threatening or conspiring against them
- Symptoms vary in DURATION and SEVERITY - Somatotype: delusion where one thinks
something is wrong with their body
,CASE STUDY: Conrad: 23 year old Schizophrenic:
- First psychotic episode at 22
- Diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder at 23
- Hesitant to seek treatment
- Found appropriate drug treatment
- Still finds it hard to maintain a healthy
weight though
- Try and - 200 - Some - Those who - Big sample so - Uses non-clinical
non-schizophrenic high population students which
understand students students score higher makes it
validity &
schizophrenia claimed to in the scale generalisability ungeneralisable to
people with
symptoms to - 2 groups: experience showed schizophrenia
LIBRARY & TRAIN - Use of VR is
treat it better scene paranoia; higher
standardised and - Independent
others didn’t paranoia gives users the groups design
- Groups of people levels same experience requires more
laughed amongst
participants and
themselves takes longer
- Used a valid
- Green et Al questionnaire
- Questionnaires
Paranoid Thinking allows for a higher
Scale is taken chance of social
afterwards desirability bias
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