What are two features that typically distinguish an LSD-induced psychosis and a schizophrenia-type psychosis?
What will be an ideal response?
LSD induces more profound, and typically pleasant, visual-perceptual distortions of the environment, whereas threatening auditory hallucinations superimposed on environment are more common with schizophrenic patients. LSD induces empathy and concerns over interpersonal relationships; schizophrenic patients typically lack empathy and often withdraw from interpersonal relationships. Individuals under LSD are highly suggestible, whereas schizophrenic patients are exceedingly resistant to suggestion.
You might also like to view...
Answer the following statements true (T) or false (F)
1. Developmental psychology is the study of continuity and change during the prenatal stage of development. 2. The embryonic stage is the first stage of prenatal development. 3. The zygote develops into a fetus at around 2 weeks after conception, when it implants into the uterine wall. 4. The embryonic stage is the shortest stage of prenatal development. 5. Male zygotes are less likely to survive than are female zygotes.
Psychologists who attempt to explain our current behavior by looking back at human history to learn how natural selection affected us are advocating the __________ view
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
The highest percentage of clinical psychologists and psychiatrists would label their therapeutic orientation as _____
Fill in the blank with correct word
Samantha is frustrated after waiting in a long line for an hour and ultimately shouts at the person in front of her. According to the frustration-aggression hypothesis, Samantha is showing aggression due to ________
a) the fact that frustration always leads to aggression b) Samantha's inherent aggressive tendencies c) the negative affect emanating from her frustration elicited by the person in front of her d) obvious provocation from others