Classification Of Schizophrenia

Question 1

Define positive symptoms of schizophrenia

Answer 1

-Behaviours not normally present
-distortion of normal functions

Question 2

Define negative symptoms of schizophrenia

Answer 2

-Behaviour that would be expected to be displayed
-Reduction/loss of normal functions

Question 3

Define hallucinations
Neg or pos symptom?

Answer 3

-unreal perceptions of environment
-usually auditory (voices), visual (objects/faces), olfactory (smelling things), tactile (feeling(bugs crawling etc)
-pos

Question 4

Define delusions
Neg or pos symptom?

Answer 4

-Bizzare beliefs that seem real but not real
-beliefs can be paranoid
-sometimes involves themselves (inflated belief about importance)
-pos

Question 5

Define Alogia (speech poverty)
Neg or pos symptom?

Answer 5

-Lessening of speech fluency + productivity
-thought to reflect blocked thoughts
-neg

Question 6

Define Avolition
Neg or pos symptom?

Answer 6

-Reduction of or inability + persistence in goal-directed behaviour (sitting in house doing nothing for hours)
-neg

Question 7

Define Schizophrenia

Answer 7

-A form of psychosis (abnormality of mind)
-its diagnosed as a consequence of a no of symptoms being present
-combination of symptoms helps identify if someone has it even tho symptoms may occur independently