Orientation psychopathology is the term psychophysiological which involves the brain's ability to focus, select and to integrate Information is also defined as the psychological function that implies the ability to select and maintain the contents of consciousness and orientation of our psychic activity towards something that is experienced, thus allowing in the experiences.
Schizophrenia
In these patients it is quite common for them to lose the inclination and the ability on their own initiative to keep their attention fixed for a time.
Depression
Three major paradigms: Surveillance tasks: In performance patterns, psychotic depressives show a worse general level of performance in these types of tasks than neurotic depressed individuals. Masking tasks: Subjects with and without depression do not differ in the exposure time to detect a stimulus. Dichotic listening tasks: Depressed people do not improve their performance when they are previously advised of which stimuli to select.
Theory of self-awareness
The self-targeting of consciousness involves:
- An increased self-evaluation tendency and decreased self-esteem
- Intensified negative affect Increased tendency to make internal attributions for negative results.
- Particularly suitable self-reports
- Tendency to withdraw from tasks after an initial experience of failure.
- Wide impact of effects on outcome expectations and subsequent performance and motivation.
Anxiety
- Anxious people have preattentional selective biases that favor the processing of threatening stimuli.
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