Sunday, October 31, 2010

Articles on Depression #1

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100609083221.htm



It was conducted by Science Daily on June 11, 2010. The high school seniors were 3 times more likely to have very strong depression symptoms iy they slept a lot during the day. they said that 52% had excessive daytime sleepiness then that 30% had very strong depression symptoms and that 32%had some symtopms of depression. the study involved 262 high school students that were in senior class and that they were averaged 17.7 years who were attending the public school in Mercer County, N.J. participants reported socio-demographic characteristics using a cross-sectional survey. The findings that were made were that they founded that sleep deprivation was commin among high school seniors. The mean of the total sleep time on school during ther nights was of only 6.1 hours and an increased sleep time of 8.2 hours on weekend nights.

Monday, October 25, 2010

The basics of Schizophrenia

1. Explain the general symptoms of paranoid-type schizophrenia
Delusions of persecution, reference exalted birth, special mission, bodily change or jealousy.
Hallucinatory voices that threaten the patient or give commands or auditorty hallucinations without verbal form such as whistling
hallucinations of smell or taste

2. Explain the general symptoms of disorganized type schyzophrenia
Active but in aimless and not constructive way
bizarre and innapropiate emotional response
innability to feel pleasure
lack of emotion and motivation

3. Explain the general symptoms of catatonic type schyzophrenia
Physical innmobility
excesive mobility
extreme resistance
peculiar movements
mimichking speech or movement

4. 3 positive symptoms of schizophrenia
delusions
hallucinations
disorganzied speech thinking

5. 3 negative symptoms of schyzophrenia
affective flattening
alogia
avolition

6. difference between hallucination and delusion
Delusions are firmly held erroneous beliefs due to exagerations of reasoning or misinterpretations of perceptions or experiences while on the other way hallucinations are distortions or exaggerations of perception in any of the senses.

7. 3 cognitive symptoms of schyzophrenia
disorganized thinking
slow thinking
difficult understanding

8. Symptom of avolition
is the reduction, difficulty or innability to initiate and persist in goal directed behavior.

9. Symptom of catatonia
mental condition causing total rigidity.

10. delution of grandeur
a delution in which one believes oneself possesed of great importance, power, wealth or ability
example. thinking you are a famous soccer player or rock star.

11. Delution of reference
when things in the environment seem to be directly related to you even though they are not.
example. it may seem as if peoplea re talking about you or special personal messages are being communicated to you through the TV or radio.

12. Somatic delution
are false beliefs about your body
example. that a physical illness exist




Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Personality Disorders

Borderline : is one of the most controversial diagnoses in psychology today.is a personality disorder described as a prolonged disturbance of personality function in a person characterized by depth and variability of moods.












Schizotypal : is a personality disorder that is characterized by a need for social isolation, odd behavior and thinking, and often unconventional beliefs.












Paranoid: is a psychiatric diagnosis characterized by paranoia and a pervasive, long-standing suspiciousness and generalized mistrust of others.















Narcissistic: is a personality disorder defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, the diagnostic classification system used in the United States, as "a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and a lack of empathy.
The narcissist is described as being excessively preoccupied with issues of personal adequacy, power, and prestige.Narcissistic personality disorder is closely linked to self-centeredness.












Histrionic: a personality disorder characterized by a pattern of excessive emotionality and attention-seeking, including an excessive need for approval and inappropriate seductiveness, usually beginning in early adulthood. These individuals are lively, dramatic, enthusiastic, and flirtatious.












Antisocial: Antisocial Personality Disorder is a condition characterized by persistent disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood











Obssesive-Compulsive: is an anxiety disorder characterized by intrusive thoughts that produce anxiety, by repetitive behaviors aimed at reducing anxiety, or by a combination of such thoughts and behaviors








Avoidant: is a personality disorder recognized in the DSM-IV TR handbook in a person over the age of eighteen years as characterized by a pervasive pattern of social inhibition, feelings of inadequacy, extreme sensitivity to negative evaluation, and avoidance of social interaction.












Monday, August 30, 2010

Journal Assignment








The blue eyed experiment vs the brown eyed experiment was that they were dividing people by their color of eyes because they were telling them how people were discriminated by their color of eye.. So they were telling the blue eyed people bad things about the brown eyed and viceversa. They separated them in class divided them so that they would learn how they were discriminated and when they told them something about them they would get angry about the others that hadnt their eye color. They were telling them comparing how the african americans were discriminated in the past years and still how they are dsicriminated today, so they told them not to be racist against them because now they see that they dont like to be discriminated so they wont be racist against others. Prejudice is a an assumption made about someone or something before having adequate knowledge to be able to do so with guaranteed accuracy. Discrimination is a sociological term referring to the treatment taken toward or agaisnt a person of a certain group in consideration based on their category. What i found most interesting in the video was that i realized people hated being discriminated by others but that tehy loved to critizice others without figuring out the damage they made to others.

Thursday, August 26, 2010

MY PERSONALITY

Your Keirsey Temperament Sorter Results indicates that your personality type is that of the

Guardians are the cornerstone of society, for they are the temperament given to serving and preserving our most important social institutions. Guardians have natural talent in managing goods and services--from supervision to maintenance and supply -- and they use all their skills to keep things running smoothly in their families, communities, schools, churches, hospitals, and businesses.

Guardians can have a lot of fun with their friends, but they are quite serious about their duties and responsibilities. Guardians take pride in being dependable and trustworthy; if there's a job to be done, they can be counted on to put their shoulder to the wheel. Guardians also believe in law and order, and sometimes worry that respect for authority, even a fundamental sense of right and wrong, is being lost. Perhaps this is why Guardians honor customs and traditions so strongly -- they are familiar patterns that help bring stability to our modern, fast-paced world.

Practical and down-to-earth, Guardians believe in following the rules and cooperating with others. They are not very comfortable winging it or blazing new trails; working steadily within the system is the Guardian way, for in the long run loyalty, discipline, and teamwork get the job done right. Guardians are meticulous about schedules and have a sharp eye for proper procedures. They are cautious about change, even though they know that change can be healthy for an institution. Better to go slowly, they say, and look before you leap.

Guardians make up as much as 40 to 45 percent of the population, and a good thing, because they usually end up doing all the indispensable but thankless jobs everyone else takes for granted.

Guardians at Work
As a Guardian, you enjoy working as a valued member of a team, whether you are leading it or following a credible leader. You like to work with people who carry their weight. You appreciate having clear-cut responsibilities and being recognized for your dedication and achievements. Your natural traits are those that employers have traditionally valued - and that successful companies still respect. You are responsible and loyal to an organization once you've signed on.

In any environment, including your work place, you are usually focused on making people happy and facilitating harmonious relationships. You often lend "aid and comfort" by drawing on a combination of tradition, past experience, and the direction of established authority. In your ideal job, people would give of themselves and work toward the good of the group.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

why are people racist?

MAny people in the world are racist because people humans are like animals if we treart them bad we will recevie the same. People are racist just because others arent like the way they are so they think only them are important and only the kind of them should live so racism begins. Also they are afraid becuase they are scared of things they dont understand and are afraid to confront the way thhey feel. People being racist hurt others feelings and when they hurt them they dont like it. Also people are racist becauase they are taught to be that way to hate others that are not their race. So this makes people hate others and it becomes an issue. Also they are racist because they judge others just because of their way of appereance and since they are taught to be that way theres nothing they can do becauase they are already told to hate others that arent like them, other race. So the most common fact that people are racist is jsut because they are taught to be and thats a sad thing becauase we all are the same, we should be treated equally but sadly the world isnt that way.

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

What causes Racism


Well to begin with racism is something your not born with is something you learned through in your life. Racism is cause by strerotypes because people begin to critize others by many different things, in movies you realize how there is racism in the radio also and specially in tv where you can see many channels in which there are many examples of racism. The most common one is peoples skin color that people cant tolerate so they begin being racist so thats what causes racism. Everybody in the world are human beings that sh0uld be treated equally but people dont care and they begin being racist so it all starts by poeple not tolerating others. Another cause of racism is unfamiliarity because many persons dont know others people culture and how they are and for example if they go to that country they see people and they since they are not like they are they begin being racist to them. Another example of how people begin being racist is selfishness. For example people dont think in other only in themselves and they cant stand being with people that are not like them so thats a cause because people are really selfish and they even not know what they are doing to others hurting them. I think people should undersand others race or being able to stand being with other even if they are not their same race or even if they are totally different. for me racism should end.