Question

The _____ of schizophrenia are marked by a distortion or an excess of normal function, whereas the _____ reflect social withdrawal, behavioral deficits, and the loss or decrease of normal functions.
a) positive symptoms/negative symptoms
b) negative symptoms/positive symptoms
c) physical symptoms/psychological symptoms
d) psychological symptoms/physical symptoms

Answer 1

Answer:

a) positive symptoms/negative symptoms

Explanation:

Schizophrenia is a chronic and often disabling mental disorder that affects a person's behavior, is a psychosis in which the affected can't tell what's real and what's imagined, in this context, positive means the presence and negative de absence of symptoms.

• Positive symptoms: Hallucinations (auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory or gustatory) and delusions (strange beliefs that can be persecutory, religious, somatics, etc.) are the principal ones (distortion or an excess of normal function as seen in the exercise given)
• Negative Symptoms: Withdrawal, struggling with the basics of daily life, trouble with speech (social withdrawal, behavioral deficits, and the loss or decrease of normal functions as seen in the example)