PSYC 1315 1st Edition Lecture 17 Outline of Last Lecture I Stress and Health A Definition of stressor B Definition of stress II Hans Selye III Source of Stress IV Suppression of Immune System V Recently discovered 3rd path VI Bereaved Spouses VII Stress Experiments A Stress and Tumor Growth B Parents and Children with Cancer C Medevac Pilots and Crew VIII Stress Outlasts Duration of Stressor IX Implications of Job Related Stress Outline of Current Lecture I Social Support II Frakenhauser s Studies III Abnormal Behavior A Normal B Personality Disorder C Psychotic IV Institutionalization V Diagnostic and Statistic Manual VI Schizophrenia A Positive Symptoms B Negative Symptoms C Process Schizophrenia D Reactive Schizophrenia Current Lecture l These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute Monkeys who show more social affiliation with other monkeys cope with stress of the disruption of the colonies social organization much better than the less socially connected monkeys Social support via friends family or professionals can help people cope better when under stress ll Frakenhauser had a high stress machine paced tasks that some people did while others did a normal pace The high stress machines produced greater after work adrenal hormones and was related to high rates of heart disease Fifty years ago females showed less stress response to cognitive stressors than males Cognitive stress was different but the physiological stress between the two genders was the same More recently gender difference has disappeared and there is an equally high adrenal hormone Her conclusion was that the females perception of failing was just as negative as males now than before when females didn t care about failing lll A Normal behavior is when you re able to maintain relationships employment and you can see reality clearly B A personality disorder is when you re unable to maintain relationships consistently underemployed job conflicts misinterprets aspects of interpersonal interactions and eccentric thoughts C Psychotic people have an extreme difficulty maintaining relationships unable to hold a job appropriate for their intellect unable to distinguish between reality and fantasy delusions hallucinations and mood extremes lV People were only institutionalized when they were a danger to themselves or others or they had an impairment of thoughts or mood Because institutions were so bad people wanted to send them back to their communities for proper care but the communities did not want them back Homeless shelters became the only institutions that could help these people V The DSM V has all the criteria to label people with disorders and their treatments The new V edition got rid of diagnostic labelling schizophrenia bipolar categories are narrower and Asperger s has been eliminated it is now only autism This book lists symptoms personality medical conditions psychosocial environment and level of functioning Vl The old term for schizophrenia was dementia praecox which meant youthful brain deterioration The new term means the splitting of thoughts and feelings but this does not mean split personality disorder Schizophrenia has disturbed thinking particularly perceptual thinking In some cases hallucinations which are sensory experiences without stimulus input and delusions which are inaccurate beliefs Attentional gating deficit is in some which impairs the ability to filter and prioritize stimuli A Positive Symptoms are hallucinations or delusions something added to this person This is the more rapid onset Drug therapies primarily affect these B Negative Symptoms are lack of emotional responses lack of communication skills lack of social skill these are things removed from that person These symptoms gradually increase and you are more likely never to get better with these C Process Schizophrenia is the slow onset and long duration associated with negative symptoms D Reactive Schizophrenia is sudden onsets and you have a better probability to recover Episodes with positive symptoms