CHARACTERISTICS

Question 1

What is schizophrenia?

Answer 1

A psychotic disorder characterized by episodes of psychosis, where an individual may feel disconnected with reality. The two symptoms are positive and negative, where positive includes

Question 2

What are positive symptoms?

Answer 2

• -> excess of behavior

e. g hallucinations, delusions, abnormal movements

Question 3

What are negative symptoms?

Answer 3

• -> absence/ deficit of behaviors

e. g lack of speech, social interaction and emotional expression

Question 4

What is persecutory ideation?

Answer 4

Delusional thinking: believes that they are at risk of being ill treated/ harmed

Question 5

Ways to diagnose schizophrenia

Answer 5

• VR Technology: Freeman: spending 4 minutes in a VR underground controlled environment
• Contains 20 generated avatars with neutral behaviours
• Assessed on: persecutory thoughts about VR, experience in the VR environment
• Semi structured interview