Lesson 4.3.5.1

4.3.5.1 Symptoms of schizophrenia and issues in diagnosis Quiz: AQA Psychology, Unit 3

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The 20 questions

  1. What are positive symptoms of schizophrenia?

    • Loss of memory for events that happened before the onset of illness
    • Low levels of physical activity during the day
    • Additions to normal experience, such as hallucinations and delusions
    • Reductions in normal behaviour, such as speech poverty and avolition

  2. What are negative symptoms of schizophrenia?

    • Additions to normal experience, such as hallucinations and delusions
    • Sudden increases in physical energy and speed of movement
    • Reductions in normal functioning, such as speech poverty and avolition
    • Excessive memory of past events that is difficult to control

  3. What is a hallucination?

    • A reduction in the amount a person speaks during conversation
    • A loss of motivation to carry out everyday tasks
    • A false belief that is held despite clear evidence to the contrary
    • A perception experienced in the absence of an external stimulus, such as hearing a voice that is not there

  4. What is a delusion?

    • A fixed false belief that is maintained despite clear evidence against it
    • A temporary lapse in attention during a conversation
    • A vivid image seen during a dream at night
    • A tendency to speak less than usual in social situations

  5. What is avolition?

    • An inability to understand spoken language
    • A reduced drive or motivation to start and carry out goal-directed activity
    • A tendency to repeat the same words many times
    • An increased desire to act impulsively without thinking

  6. What is speech poverty, also called alogia?

    • An inability to hear the voice of another person
    • A reduction in the amount of speech or in its content
    • An increase in the speed and volume of speech
    • A pattern of speech that is hard to follow because of unusual associations

  7. What issue arises from co-morbidity in diagnosing schizophrenia?

    • Co-morbidity makes it impossible to diagnose any psychological disorder
    • Other conditions, such as depression or substance misuse, may occur alongside and complicate the diagnosis
    • Co-morbidity means that the person has no other conditions at all
    • Co-morbidity only affects children and not adults

  8. Why can symptom overlap make schizophrenia difficult to diagnose?

    • Symptoms can be diagnosed only through brain scans
    • Symptoms overlap only in children and not in adults
    • Some symptoms, such as hallucinations or disordered thinking, also occur in other disorders
    • Schizophrenia symptoms are always unique and never found elsewhere

  9. Why might culture bias affect the diagnosis of schizophrenia?

    • Behaviours and experiences that are normal in one culture may be wrongly interpreted as symptoms by clinicians from another
    • Culture has no effect on how symptoms are reported or interpreted
    • Culture always makes symptoms easier to identify
    • Culture only affects the way a diagnosis is written down

  10. What is one way gender bias might affect the diagnosis of schizophrenia?

    • Symptoms in men and women may present differently, so a clinician might miss or misjudge them
    • Gender bias only affects diagnosis in children under the age of ten
    • Gender bias means that all people with schizophrenia are diagnosed in the same way
    • Gender has no influence on how symptoms are presented or recognised

  11. Which of these is a positive symptom rather than a negative symptom?

    • Speaking very little in conversation
    • Hearing voices that others cannot hear
    • Losing interest in daily activities
    • Showing little facial expression

  12. A person says that a television broadcast is sending secret messages directed at them alone. Which symptom is most evident?

    • A negative symptom of speech poverty
    • A delusion of reference
    • A type of co-morbidity
    • An example of avolition

  13. Which evaluation best describes the diagnostic process for schizophrenia?

    • It relies on clinical judgement and symptom patterns, which can be affected by bias and overlap with other conditions
    • It is entirely objective because it depends only on blood tests
    • It has no room for error because all symptoms are unique
    • It is completely unaffected by the clinician's background or the patient's culture

  14. A clinician sees a patient who speaks very little and shows no motivation to attend appointments. Which type of symptoms is shown?

    • Cultural symptoms only
    • Symptoms of co-morbidity only
    • Positive symptoms
    • Negative symptoms

  15. Why is it important to distinguish between positive and negative symptoms?

    • It is only important for children and not for adults
    • It is only important for statistical analysis and not for treatment
    • Each type may respond differently to treatment and may have different underlying causes
    • The two types are always identical and do not need to be separated

  16. A patient has hallucinations and delusions but also experiences depression. What issue does this illustrate?

    • Co-morbidity, because more than one condition is present
    • Speech poverty, because the patient speaks little
    • Avolition, because the patient lacks motivation
    • A purely negative symptom profile

  17. Which symptom is the hallmark of a negative symptom profile?

    • Repeating words in a loop
    • Believing that one is being watched by the government
    • Flat affect or reduced emotional expression
    • Hearing voices that have no external source

  18. Why might a clinician need to consider cultural context when assessing hallucinations?

    • Hallucinations never occur outside Western cultures
    • Some cultures have religious or spiritual experiences that may resemble hallucinations but are not pathological
    • Cultural context makes hallucinations irrelevant to diagnosis
    • Hallucinations are the same in every culture and need no interpretation

  19. Which evaluation of symptom-based diagnosis is most appropriate?

    • It removes the need for any clinical judgement at all
    • It provides a shared framework for clinicians, but it can be unreliable where symptoms overlap or are interpreted differently across groups
    • It is perfectly reliable and identical across all clinicians and cultures
    • It is useless because symptoms have no relation to disorder

  20. Which symptom is most likely to be described as a 'loss' of normal function?

    • Delusion of persecution
    • Thought insertion
    • Auditory hallucination
    • Avolition

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