i) 1. positive symptoms 2. negative symptoms 3. cognitive symptoms
Positive symptoms are obvious because normal people would not exhibit those kinds of behaviors. The symptoms involve hallucination, delusion, thought disorders, and movement disorders. These symptoms can come and go. Sometimes they are hardly to find in people with schizophrenia if they are taking medications.
ii) A hallucination is something a person sees, hears, smells, or feels that no one else can see, hear, smell, or feel. “Voices” are the most common type of hallucination in schizophrenia.
A delusion is a false personal belief that is not part of the person’s culture and do not change, even when other people present proof that the belief is not true or logical.
iii) A young man has difficulty in organizing his thoughts or connecting them logically. His speech is garbled and hard to understand.
iv) Movement disorders in people with schizophrenia are unreasonable or illogical. Sometimes they look clumsy because of their depression. Sometimes they exhibit the same movement over and over. For example a young man usually sit and look at the same spot for 10 minutes without moving. He looks like he is losing his mind. He answered questions incoherently.
Catatonia is a state of immobility and unresponsiveness.
vi) True
vii) Cognitive symptoms
viii) False
ix) True
x) False
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