Lecture 6

Question 1

What is a hallucination?

Answer 1

Perceptual sensation without physical sensation

Question 2

What is a delusion?

Answer 2

A strong false belief

Question 3

What are positive symptoms in psychotic disorders?

Answer 3

Presentation of something that you shouldn’t have

Question 4

What are negative symptoms in psychotic disorders?

Answer 4

Absence of things you should have

Question 5

4 Examples of negative symptoms in schizophrenia

Answer 5

1) Avolition
2) Alogia
3) Akinesia
4) Echolalia

Question 6

What is Avolition?

Answer 6

Lack of initiative

Question 7

What is Alogia?

Answer 7

Poverty of speech

Question 8

What is Akinesia?

Answer 8

Slow/lack of movement

Question 9

What is Echolalia?

Answer 9

Repeating words/phrases

Question 10

5 Subtypes of Schizophrenia

Answer 10

1) Paranoid type
2) Disorganised type
3) Catatonic type (motor immobility)
4) Undifferentiated type
5) Residual type (negative symptoms not positive)

Question 11

2 Types of treatment for Schizophrenia

Answer 11

1) medication (antipsychotics)

2) cognitive therapy (reduce threatening interpretation of hallucinations)