Childhood Schizophrenia
Attention can be defined as the concentrated direction of the mind. We can also improve and develop it in our struggle to grasp the best possible understanding of the world around us so as to exploit it to our best interest. Without the aptitude of attention the amount of information available in the environment would be infinite. For example when someone is faced with a life-threatening situation one needs to be economical in dealing with the information arriving at his/her senses. Even in normal circumstances our environment is a buzz of chaos, and we need to select from many different events those to which we should attend in any given moment. Selective attention provides the means by which we reduce the workload on our mental systems. The restriction of mental processing to one event at a time is called “selective attention”. Our ability to attend the one main event whilst being remotely conscious of the others provides the psychologist with the paradox of how attention can be both a selective and a divided process simultaneously.
Cherry in 1953 (sited in Eysenk, 2000), gave subjects a dichotic listening task to perform. This involved wearing a stereo headphone, which enabled the experimenter to present one message to one ear and a second message to the other ear. However what interested Cherry was how much of the unattended channel was only analysed by the subject at a very primitive level. For instance the subject was aware of the sex of the speaker but had no awareness of the context of the message. Cherry concluded that the unattended channel was analysed for its physical properties, such as tone and pitch, but nothing deeper than that.
Broadbent (1959; sited in Eysenk, 2000) devised a mo...
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...concurrent task or tasks, surely there is some overall limit to how many things we can do simultaneously. Furthermore our capacity for dividing attention between tasks increases with practice on them. It may then be possible to develop our cognitive resources in more efficient ways once the principles are more clearly mapped out.
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Childhood Schizophrenia happens. Although this chronic brain disorder is more prevalent in adults, occurrences of hallucinations have been reported in children as young as 5 years of age. Still, parents need not panic, as pediatric schizophrenia only develops in about 1 in 40,000 children. As a parent if you suspect something is mighty wrong, it usually is. Most especially if schizophrenia 'runs in the family', you should get familiar with the symptoms of early onset Schizophrenia. Childhood Schizophrenia
question, does childhood trauma cause and effect the symptoms of patients with psychological disorders such as Schizophrenia and Psychosis, or can the trauma cause a patient to have Schizophrenia or Psychosis. Many case studies’ findings state that there is a link. Some studies say only certain symptoms are affected. I want to know what symptoms are affected and what kind of childhood trauma could have possibly affected the symptoms of patients who have been diagnosed with Schizophrenia and Psychosis
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with schizophrenia. In the DSM-5, it states that schizophrenia is characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech and behavior, and other symptoms that cause social or occupational dysfunction. It is required that a person have at least two of these symptoms. It is clear throughout the movie that Nina has hallucinations that ... ... middle of paper ... ... the mold of a dancer. The fact that Nina has an eating disorder shows that it is not rare for people with schizophrenia to display
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The darker side of psychological disorders is often revealed through tense courtrooms and dramatic movies, often depicting individuals with major childhood trauma sowing carnage and destruction in seemingly emotionally detached acts of violence without remorse or logical explanation. When discussing psychological disorders the images that come to mind are often the happy smiling faces of individuals with autism, passing out hugs freely or even of a close neighbor who takes medication to manage depression