🧠psychology - schizophrenia

Question 1

What is schizophrenia?

Answer 1

A chronic, severe mental disorder characterised by disturbances in thought, perception, and behavior

Question 2

List the positive symptoms of schizophrenia

Answer 2

• Hallucinations
• Delusions
• Disorganised thought
• Experiences of influence, passivity, and control
• Grossly disorganised behavior
• Psychomotor disturbances

Question 3

List the negative symptoms of schizophrenia

Answer 3

• Avolition
• Flattened effect
• Impaired cognitive function
• Alogia
• Anhedonia

Question 4

According to the ICD 11, what are the core symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer 4

• Persistent delusions
• Persistent hallucinations
• Thought disorder
• Experiences of influence, passivity, and control

Question 5

According to the ICD 11, what conditions are needed for a diagnosis of schizophrenia to be made?

Answer 5

• Persisted for at least one month
• Not a manifestation of another health condition
• Not a result of a substance on the CNS, or withdrawal

Question 6

What is a delusion?

Answer 6

A fixed belief that is not amendable to change in light of conflicting evidence

Question 7

What are the types of delusions?

Answer 7

1. Persecutory
2. Grandiose
3. Referential
4. Somatic
5. Nihilistic

Question 8

What is a persecutory delusion?

Answer 8

A belief that one is going to be harmed or harassed by an individual, organisation, or other group

Question 9

What is a grandiose delusion?

Answer 9

When an individual believes that they have exceptional abilities, wealth, or fame

Question 10

What is a referential delusion?

Answer 10

A belief that certain gestures, comments, or environmental cues are directed at oneself

Question 11

What is a somatic delusion?

Answer 11

Somatic preoccupations regarding health and organ functions

Question 12

What is a nihilistic delusion?

Answer 12

A belief that involves the conviction that a major catastrophe will occur

Question 13

What is bizarre delusion?

Answer 13

A delusion that is clearly implausable and not understandable to same culture peers and do not derive from ordinary life experiences

Question 14

What is a hallucination?

Answer 14

A perception-like experience that occurs without an external stimulus - vivid and clear, with the full force and impact of normal perceptions, not under voluntary control

Question 15

What are the types of hallucinations?

Answer 15

1. Auditory
2. Visual
3. Tactile
4. Olfactory

Question 16

What are the types of disorganised thinking/speech?

Answer 16

1. Derailment / loose associations
2. Word salad / incoherence
3. Neologism

Question 17

What is derailment / loose associations?

Answer 17

When an individual swithces from one topic to another

Question 18

What is word salad / incoherence?

Answer 18

When speech is so severely disorganised that it is nearly incomprehensible and resembles repetitive aphasia