Schizophrenia: Characteristics Flashcards
Who catergorised symptoms into positive and negative?
Schneider
What are the two catergories of symptoms?
Positive and negative
What are positive symptoms?
Behaviours a person is showing in addition to normal behaviours
What are negative symptoms?
Symptoms inhibiting people from displaying normal behaviours
What are some examples of positive symptoms?
Hallucinations
Delusions
Disordered thinking
What are hallucinations?
When a person has unreal perceptions such as hearing sounds or voices
What percentage of schizophrenics are estimated to experiance tactile hallucinations?
20%
What is formication?
Where a person thinks they have bugs on or under their skin
What are delusions?
Unreal beleifs with little evidence
What are the most common types of delusions?
Persecution
Grandiosity
What are delusions of persecution?
When the person thinks there’s an organisation or person out to get them such as the government
What are delusions of grandiosity?
When the person thinks they are special in some way such as having super powers or being the next reincarnation of Jesus
What is disordered thinking?
Evident though examining speech
Jump from one topic to another with no logical flow.
Very hard to follow
Muddled and incoherant
Frustrating as they can’t express themselves
What are some negative symptoms?
Alogia Avolition Anhedonia Flatness of affect Catatonic behaviour
What is alogia?
Poverty of speech
Reduction in talking, speech can lack meaning
