Symptoms of schizophrenia

Question 1

What is classification?

Answer 1

How a disorder is defined, including symptoms and diagnostic criteria

Question 2

What is diagnosis?

Answer 2

The process of deciding if someone has a disorder using the diagnostic criteria

Question 3

What are the types of symptoms present in schizophrenia?

Answer 3

Positive and negative

Question 4

What are positive symptoms?

Answer 4

They are added to behaviour

Question 5

What are the positive symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer 5

Hallucinations and delusions

Question 6

What are hallucinations?

Answer 6

Perception like experiences that occur without an external stimulus

Question 7

What are the types of hallucinations?

Answer 7

Visual, auditory and distortions

Question 8

What are visual hallucinations?

Answer 8

Seeing things

Question 9

What are auditory hallucinations?

Answer 9

Hearing voices

Question 10

What are hallucinations or distortion?

Answer 10

Perceiving ordinary experiences as external stimuli, such as perceiving ordinary sounds as talking

Question 11

What are delusions?

Answer 11

False beliefs that are held onto with great conviction and are hard to change with arguments and evidence

Question 12

What are the types of delusions?

Answer 12

Persecution or grandeur

Question 13

What are delusions or persecution?

Answer 13

Believing others are plotting against you

Question 14

What are delusions of grandeur?

Answer 14

Believing you are someone important

Question 15

What are negative symptoms?

Answer 15

They take away from behaviour

Question 16

What are the negative symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer 16

Abolition and speech poverty

Question 17

What is a volition>

Answer 17

A lack of purposeful behaviour resulting in a reduction in taking part in activities that would normally be voluntarily for a reason such as going to work

Question 18

What is speech poverty?

Answer 18

A reduction of quality and frequency of verbal output which is often repetitive

Question 19

What is the quality of speech for avolition?

Answer 19

Reduced vocabulary and grammatical complexity

Question 20

What is the frequency of speech for avolition?

Answer 20

Say less overall and in incomplete sentences

Question 21

What are alternative positive symptoms of schizophrenia?

Answer 21

Thought disorder and symptoms of control

Question 22

What is thought disorder?

Answer 22

Thoughts are disorganised and is demonstrated in disorganised speech

Question 23

What is derailment?

Answer 23

Going off topic for an irrelevant reason, such as when a word has two meaning, causing them to switch topics and go off tangents

Question 24

What are symptoms of control?

Answer 24

Feeling that your thoughts are being manipulated by an external force, such as thought insertion or withdrawal

Question 25

What is thought insertion?

Answer 25

Thoughts being put into your head

Question 26

What is thought withdrawal?

Answer 26

Thoughts being taken out of of your head

Question 27

What are diagnostic systems?

Answer 27

They contain diagnostic criteria

Question 28

What is the same between the DSM and ICD?

Answer 28

Need two symptoms, negative symptoms are only one symptom, need to experience one month of full symptoms, must interfere with functioning and symptoms cannot be due to drug use of brain damage

Question 29

What is the difference between the DSM and ICD diagnostic criteria?

Answer 29

The ICD recognises symptoms of control asa positive symptom and dont require 6 months on continuous prior disturbance