Identify the behavioral and cognitive differences between the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia
What will be an ideal response?
The positive symptoms include the presence of maladaptive behaviors or the exaggeration of behaviors. These include hallucinations, delusions, disordered thought, and abnormal motor behaviors. Negative symptoms include the absence of or decreases in normal behaviors. These include flat affect (lack of emotion), inability to experience pleasure, lack of motivation, poverty of speech, and impaired attention and social interactions.
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a. reliability. b. validity. c. discriminability. d. difficulty.
A behavioral deficit is defined as _______________________________________________
Fill in the blank(s) with correct word
By definition, intellectual disability involves both a below-average intelligence and a. low standardized IQ scores. b. a known genetic defect
c. poor adaptive behaviors. d. emotional problems.
A motorcycle must have two wheels and an engine and handlebars. Thus, a motorcycle is considered a __________ concept
a. conjunctive b. prototypical c. disjunctive d. relational