Explain the difference between positive and negative symptoms in psychotic disorders

What will be an ideal response?


- positive symptoms involve excesses or "additions" of unusual behavior, such as delusions, hallucinations, inappropriate affect, and disorganized speech and behavior
- negative symptoms involve deficits or "subtraction" of normal behavior, such as flat affect, alogia, avolition, and anhedonia

Psychology

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Fill in the blank(s) with correct word

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Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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Darryl decides to start reviewing for his exam by studying 20 minutes a day for 10 days rather than just studying 3–4 hours the night before his exam. He is making use of:

a) cramming. b) delayed practice. c) spaced practice. d) massed practice.

Psychology

True or False: You cannot tell SPSS specific unequal expected values when conducting a chi square test.

a. True b. False

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