Schizophrenia AQA A level Psychology Questions and Answers 100% Pass

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Schizophrenia AQA A level Psychology Questions and Answers 100% Pass Schizophrenia ✔✔A severe mental illness where contact with reality and insight are impaired and example of psychosis classi... fication of mental disorder ✔✔The process of organising symptoms into categories based on which symptoms cluster together in sufferers more commonly diagnosed in ✔✔men than women two major systems for the classification of mental disorder ✔✔- World Health Organisations International Classification of Disease edition 10 (ICD-10) - American Psychiatric Associations Diagnostic and Statistical Manual edition (DSM-5) How many symptoms must be present? (ICD-10) ✔✔Two or more negative symptoms How many symptoms must be present? (DSM-5) ✔✔One positive symptom positive symptoms of schizophrenia ✔✔atypical symptoms experienced in addition to normal experiences - include hallucinations and delusions hallucinations ✔✔a positive symptom of schizophrenia. They are the sensory experiences of stimuli that either have no basis in reality or are distorted perceptions of things in nature delusions ✔✔a positive symptom of schizophrenia. They involve the beliefs that have no basis in reality negative symptoms of schizophrenia ✔✔Atypical experiences that represent the loss of a usual experience such as clear thinking or 'normal' levels of motivation speech poverty ✔✔a negative symptoms off schizo [Show More]

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