Characteristics Of Schizophrenia

Question 1

Who ?

Answer 1

• ## Schneider (1959)

Question 2

Positive symptoms

Answer 2

• symptoms r behaviours that the person exhibiting in addition to “normal” behaviour
• if they didn’t have SZ, they wouldn’t have this symptom
• hallucinations, delusions and disordered thinking

Question 3

Negative symptoms

Answer 3

• inhibiting people with SZ from demonstrating normal behaviours such as Being unable to hold a conversation
• e.g alogia, avolition, anhedonia, flatness of effect and catatonic behaviour

Question 4

Hallucinations

Answer 4

• perceptions that are unreal
• can be auditory or visual
• lewandowski estimated 20% people with SZ have tactile hallucinations ( something touching their skin) - formication is the sensation of small insects on the skin

Question 5

Delusions

Answer 5

• beliefs that are unreal
• perceution - based on the idea that a person, group wants to harm the individual
• grandiosity - suggesting that the individual is special in some way

Question 6

Disordered thinking

Answer 6

• derailment- examining the speech of SZ people
• the persons thoughts seem to jump from one topic to another for no reason
• show illogical flow of discussion
• SZ people feel like their head is not their own (thought insertion) - thoughts placed by a third party

Question 7

Negative symptoms- alogia

Answer 7

Poverty of speech

Question 8

Avolivtion

Answer 8

Lack of desire to take part in any activity

Question 9

Andhedonia

Answer 9

Inability to react appropriately to pleasure

Question 10

Catatonic behaviour

Answer 10

Disruption to motor abilities