Symptoms of schizophrenia Flashcards
What is classification?
How a disorder is defined, including symptoms and diagnostic criteria
What is diagnosis?
The process of deciding if someone has a disorder using the diagnostic criteria
What are the types of symptoms present in schizophrenia?
Positive and negative
What are positive symptoms?
They are added to behaviour
What are the positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
Hallucinations and delusions
What are hallucinations?
Perception like experiences that occur without an external stimulus
What are the types of hallucinations?
Visual, auditory and distortions
What are visual hallucinations?
Seeing things
What are auditory hallucinations?
Hearing voices
What are hallucinations or distortion?
Perceiving ordinary experiences as external stimuli, such as perceiving ordinary sounds as talking
What are delusions?
False beliefs that are held onto with great conviction and are hard to change with arguments and evidence
What are the types of delusions?
Persecution or grandeur
What are delusions or persecution?
Believing others are plotting against you
What are delusions of grandeur?
Believing you are someone important
What are negative symptoms?
They take away from behaviour