Describe the three symptom categories of schizophrenia and ...

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Describe the three symptom categories of schizophrenia and provide at least two examples of symptoms falling into each category.
 
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Question 2

Passive suicidal ideation and active suicidal ideation may be discriminated from each other on the basis of
 
  A) whether psychotic thought processes were involved.
   B) the presence or absence of a harm plan.
   C) whether a person has made prior suicide attempts.
   D) the presence of parasuicidal acts.

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Answer to Question 1

Positive symptoms are abnormal behaviors, thoughts, or feelings that are absent in people who do not have a psychiatric disorder. Examples of positive symptoms include delusions, hallucinations, speech abnormalities (i.e., thought blocking, loose associations, clang associations), and unusual or bizarre behaviors (i.e., catatonia, waxy flexibility). Negative symptoms refer to the absence of behaviors, thoughts, or feelings that are present in people who do not have a psychiatric disorder. Examples of negative symptoms include blunted affect, anhedonia, alogia, avolition, and psychomotor retardation. Cognitive impairments are disruptions or deficits in cognitive functioning. Examples include visual, verbal learning, and memory impairments; inability to pay attention; decreased speed of information processing; and impaired abstract reasoning and executive functioning.

Answer to Question 2

B

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