a psychological disorder characterized by delusions, hallucinations, disorganized speech,
and/or diminished or inappropriate emotional expression - Answers schizophrenia
false beliefs, often of persecution or grandeur, that may accompany psychotic disorders -
Answers delusions
a psychological disorder in which a person loses contact with reality, experiencing irrational
ideas and distorted perceptions - Answers psychosis
false sensory experience, such as seeing something in the absence of an external visual
stimulus.
sensory experiences without sensory stimulation - Answers hallucination
Disorganized thoughts may result from a breakdown in - Answers selective attention
A person with schizophrenia may have hallucinations. They may feel, taste, see, or smell things
that aren't there. Most often, hallucinations are what: voices making what remarks or giving
orders? - Answers auditory; insulting
Schizophrenia afflicts how many people, knows no national boundaries, affecting both males
and females - Answers 1/100
Schizophrenia patients with _____ experience hallucinations, talk in disorganized deluded ways,
exhibit inappropriate laughter, tears, or rage. - Answers positive symptoms
negative schizophrenia symptoms - Answers toneless voices, expressionless faces, or mute
and rigid bodies
Positive symptoms are the _____ of inappropriate behaviors - Answers presence
Negative symptoms are the ____ of appropriate behaviors - Answers absence
When schizophrenia is a slow-moving process called what, recovery is doubtful. - Answers
Chronic
When previously well-adjusted people develop schizophrenia rapidly following life stresses,
recovery is more likely. - Answers acute/reactive schizophrenia
Excess of receptors for dopamine (too much stimulation) causes - Answers schizophrenia
Drugs that block dopamine receptors often - Answers lessen schizophrenic symptoms
Most of new research studies link schizophrenia with ___ abnormalities and ____ predispositions
- Answers brain; genetic