What is the difference between positive and negative symptom of schizophrenia?
What will be an ideal response?
ANSWER:
?Positive symptoms of schizophrenia represent an excess or distortion of normal functions and are more obvious signs of a break with reality called psychosis. They include delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech, and grossly disorganized or catatonic behavior.
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Negative symptoms of schizophrenia represent a restriction or absence of normal functions. These include blunted affect, alogia, and avolition (American Psychiatric Association, 2013). Approximately 25% of persons with schizophrenia display these symptoms (Cohen et al., 2013; Ho et al., 2003).
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A) establishing structuralism in the United States. B) writing a devastating critique of the behaviourist works of B. F. Skinner. C) establishing the functionalist concentration within psychology. D) writing the first book on physiological psychology.
Before the field of psychology became an independent science, the study of the mind was conducted mainly by:
a. philosophers and physiologists b. psychiatrists and philosophers c. physiologists and psychiatrists d. scientists and physicians
The principle of object permanence is demonstrated by an infant's
laughing when a sibling makes faces. grasping a rattle and banging it on the floor. being willing to let go of an object. searching for a toy that has fallen from sight.
Participants in modern psychology experiments are given the right to:
A) choose which treatment group they are in. B) withhold responses to questions they feel uncomfortable answering. C) review the results of the study before they are published. D) write a formal response to the published paper.