3.2.1 Characteristics of schizophrenia

Question 1

what is schizophrenia not?

Answer 1

split personality

Question 2

what is schizophrenia characterised by?

Answer 2

break from reality

Question 3

how many people in England & Wales have a diagnosis of schizophrenia in a year?

Answer 3

220000

Question 4

how many people in 100 will experience schizophrenia in their lifetime?

Answer 4

1

Question 5

at which ages is schizophrenia most often diagnosed?

Answer 5

15 - 35

Question 6

who are more at risk of schizophrenia, men or women?

Answer 6

both at equal risk

Question 7

in order to make sense of the many different symptoms of schizophrenia, what did kurt Schneider suggest they be categorised as?

Answer 7

positive

negative

Question 8

what does the term positive symptoms refer to?

Answer 8

symptoms in addition to normal behaviour

Question 9

what is a hallucination? (p)

Answer 9

perceiving sensory information that doesn’t exist

Question 10

give some examples of types of hallucination: (p)

Answer 10

auditory
visual
tactile

Question 11

what are auditory hallucinations? (p)

Answer 11

hearing things e.g. voices that aren’t there

Question 12

what are visual hallucinations? (p)

Answer 12

flashes of light
seeing shadows
full images

Question 13

what are tactile hallucinations? (p)

Answer 13

feeling things that aren’t there e.g. something crawling under skin - formication

Question 14

what are delusions? (p)

Answer 14

inappropriate beliefs

Question 15

what might paranoid delusions be? (p)

Answer 15

delusions of persecution e.g. being followed

Question 16

what is a grandeur delusion? (p)

Answer 16

being convinced your of importance

Question 17

what other types of delusions are there? (p)

Answer 17

paranormal
physical
thought

Question 18

what is disordered thinking sometimes described as and why? (p)

Answer 18

knights move thinking

in chess knights move in a different way

Question 19

what is disordered thinking? (p)

Answer 19

thinking that doesn’t appear to have logical flow

Question 20

what are negative symptoms?

Answer 20

things that we lack

Question 21

what is alogia? (n)

Answer 21

poverty of speech

Question 22

what does poverty of speech involve? (n)

Answer 22

reduction in speech

reduction in the meaning of speech

Question 23

what is avolition? (n)

Answer 23

inability to make decisions

appearing unconcerned or indifferent about your surroundings

Question 24

give an examples of things a person with avolition might do? (n)

Answer 24

don’t go to school or work
don’t go shopping
don’t see friends

Question 25

what is anhedonia? (n)

Answer 25

don’t respond to things they used to enjoy appropriately

Question 26

give an example of anhedonia? (n)

Answer 26

if your favourite sports team wins you don’t experience enjoyment

Question 27

what is flatness of effect? (n)

Answer 27

appearing to have no emotion
talking in monotone
no facial expressions
don’t display appropriate emotional response

Question 28

what is catatonic behaviour? (n)

Answer 28

remaining still for long periods of time