Question

Jose has schizophrenia. His speech patterns are jumbled and disorganized. He strings syllables together nonsensically in meaningless rhymes that are often incoherent to anyone listening. He often mixes real words in with word fragments or non-existent words making it impossible for others to understand what he is talking about. His symptoms are best described as ______.

Answer 1

Answer:

b. looseness of association Associative looseness (positive symptom)

Explanation:Jose has difficulty associating coherent sentences, his speech will often show fragmented sentences or ideas that jump from one theme to another where unrelated or undirected thinking is implied.

The symptoms are also known as Derailment or associative looseness which is a main positive symptom present in the first stages of the mental health issues that will in most cases produce disconnected ideas.

As a positive symptom, it means that it will be persistent and characteristic among the people suffering this condition