Symptoms

Question 1

What are the 2 types?

Answer 1

Positive and Negative

Question 2

Describe positive.

Answer 2

Adds something to the person’s life

Question 3

Describe negative.

Answer 3

Takes away from the person’s life

Question 4

List the positive symptoms.

Answer 4

Hallucinations
Delusions
Grossly disorganised behaviour
Catatonic behaviour
Disorganised speech

Question 5

What are the 4 types of hallucination?

Answer 5

Auditory, Tactile, Olfactory, Visual

Question 6

What are the 3 types of delusion?

Answer 6

Paranoid, Grandeur, Reference

Question 7

Describe reference delusions?

Answer 7

Believing that messages are for them from other media E.G. radio/tv

Question 8

Describe paranoid delusions?

Answer 8

They think that something is happening to them

Question 9

Describe grandeur delusions?

Answer 9

They think they are the greatest

Question 10

Difference between hallucinations and delusions?

Answer 10

Hallucinations are sensory, delusions are beliefs.

Question 11

Example of grossly disorganised behaviour?

Answer 11

Loads of clothes in summer

Question 12

Example of disorganised speech?

Answer 12

Different topics all at once

Question 13

Why does the patient have disorganised speech?

Answer 13

Jumbled thought processes

Question 14

List negative symptoms.

Answer 14

Affective flattening
Avolition
Anhedonia
Alogia

Question 15

Describe flat affect.

Answer 15

Reduction in emotional expression

Question 16

Describe avolition.

Answer 16

Very low motivation.

Little goal-directed behaviour

Question 17

Describe anhedonia

Answer 17

Loss of interest/pleasure in most activities

Question 18

Describe speech poverty

Answer 18

Lessening of speech production

Question 19

What causes speech poverty?

Answer 19

Disorganised thoughts