PSYCHOPATHOLOGY TEST 4 WITH CORRECT
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS YEAR 2024/2025
Psychosis - verified answers-a loss of contact with reality
First, define what is meant by a positive symptom of
schizophrenia. Then, describe in detail four positive symptoms
of schizophrenia. - verified answers---Positive symptoms are
pathological excesses; they are bizarre additions to a person's
behavior
--delusions
--disorganized thinking and speech
--heightened perceptions and hallucinations
--inappropriate affect
Delusions - verified answers---ideas that they believe
wholeheartedly but that have no basis in fact
--delusions of persecution: most common; belief of being
plotted or discriminated against, spied on, slandered,
threatened, attacked or deliberately victimized
--delusions of reference: they attach special and personal
meaning to the actions of others or to various objects or events
--delusions of grandeur
--delusions of control: believe their feelings, thoughts, and
actions are all being controlled by others
Disorganized Thinking and Speech - verified answers---
speaking in peculiar ways
--loose associations: the rapid shift from one topic to another,
believing that their incoherent statements make sense
--neologisms: made-up words that typically have meaning only
to the person using them
--perseveration: the repetition of words and statements again
and again
--clang: using rhyme to think or express themselves
, Heightened Perceptions and Hallucinations - verified answers--
-the person might feels that their senses are being flooded by
all the sights and sounds that surround them, which makes it
difficult to do anything important
--hallucinations are perceptions that a person has in the
absence of external stimuli
--tactile: tingling, burning or electric-shock sensations
--somatic: the feeling of something happening inside the body,
like snakes crawling in one's stomach
--visual: perceptions of colors or clouds or distinct visions of
people or objects
--gustatory: hallucinations that make food or drink taste strange
--olfactory: smell odors that no one else does
Inappropriate Affect - verified answers---emotions that are
unsuited to the situation
--smiling when told terrible news or being upset in situations
where they should be happy
--inappropriate shifts in mood
--this could be the response to a hallucination
First, define what is meant by a negative symptom of
schizophrenia. Then, describe in detail four negative symptoms
of schizophrenia. - verified answers---negative symptoms are
those that seem to be pathological deficits, characteristics that
are lacking in a person
--poverty of speech
--restricted affect
--loss of volition
--social withdrawal
Poverty of Speech - verified answers---a reduction in speech or
speech content
--also known as alogia
--think and say very little instead of saying a lot and conveying
little meaning
AND VERIFIED ANSWERS YEAR 2024/2025
Psychosis - verified answers-a loss of contact with reality
First, define what is meant by a positive symptom of
schizophrenia. Then, describe in detail four positive symptoms
of schizophrenia. - verified answers---Positive symptoms are
pathological excesses; they are bizarre additions to a person's
behavior
--delusions
--disorganized thinking and speech
--heightened perceptions and hallucinations
--inappropriate affect
Delusions - verified answers---ideas that they believe
wholeheartedly but that have no basis in fact
--delusions of persecution: most common; belief of being
plotted or discriminated against, spied on, slandered,
threatened, attacked or deliberately victimized
--delusions of reference: they attach special and personal
meaning to the actions of others or to various objects or events
--delusions of grandeur
--delusions of control: believe their feelings, thoughts, and
actions are all being controlled by others
Disorganized Thinking and Speech - verified answers---
speaking in peculiar ways
--loose associations: the rapid shift from one topic to another,
believing that their incoherent statements make sense
--neologisms: made-up words that typically have meaning only
to the person using them
--perseveration: the repetition of words and statements again
and again
--clang: using rhyme to think or express themselves
, Heightened Perceptions and Hallucinations - verified answers--
-the person might feels that their senses are being flooded by
all the sights and sounds that surround them, which makes it
difficult to do anything important
--hallucinations are perceptions that a person has in the
absence of external stimuli
--tactile: tingling, burning or electric-shock sensations
--somatic: the feeling of something happening inside the body,
like snakes crawling in one's stomach
--visual: perceptions of colors or clouds or distinct visions of
people or objects
--gustatory: hallucinations that make food or drink taste strange
--olfactory: smell odors that no one else does
Inappropriate Affect - verified answers---emotions that are
unsuited to the situation
--smiling when told terrible news or being upset in situations
where they should be happy
--inappropriate shifts in mood
--this could be the response to a hallucination
First, define what is meant by a negative symptom of
schizophrenia. Then, describe in detail four negative symptoms
of schizophrenia. - verified answers---negative symptoms are
those that seem to be pathological deficits, characteristics that
are lacking in a person
--poverty of speech
--restricted affect
--loss of volition
--social withdrawal
Poverty of Speech - verified answers---a reduction in speech or
speech content
--also known as alogia
--think and say very little instead of saying a lot and conveying
little meaning
