L2 - +/- Symptoms

Question 1

Define positive symptoms

Answer 1

Refers to when symptoms weren’t present when the person was healthy but now soonest once they’ve developed schizophrenia

Question 2

Define negative symptoms

Answer 2

Reduction or loss of functioning which causes a weakened ability to cope and manage with everyday life
E.g. avolition and speech poverty

Question 3

Define auditory hallucinations

Answer 3

Hearing voices that don’t exist which can be heard in one or a mixture of voices, often giving a running (negative) commentary of the person’s behaviour that the person may respond to

Question 4

Define visual hallucinations

Answer 4

Seeing things like images and objects which don’t exist, which may or may not be disturbing

Question 5

Define olfactory hallucinations

Answer 5

Smelling odours which don’t exist, e.g. perfume

Question 6

Define tactile hallucinations

Answer 6

Believing that one can feel things which aren’t actually present, e.g. someone touching them

Question 7

Define delusions of grandeur

Answer 7

One believing that they’re someone important or powerful like God, sometimes meaning they think they have special powers which can lead them to hurt themselves

Question 8

Define delusions of persecution

Answer 8

Believing that everyone is conspiring against them and that everyone dislikes them
Leads to having a negative attitude towards most people

Question 9

Define delusions of reference

Answer 9

Believing that objects, events, and sings have s personal significance which refers directly to them
May become emotionally attached to objects

Question 10

Define avolition

Answer 10

Having a reduced interest/desire or inability to initiate/persist in goal directed behaviour available to them
May result in poor hygiene, lack of persistence in work, and a lack of energy

Question 11

Define speech poverty/alogia

Answer 11

Less fluent and productive speech as a result of slowed thinking and blocked thoughts
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