Psychology - Classification and Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

I looked for the quiz's, and saw that most of them were rubbish, therefore i decided to make a series of quizes relating to each part of the specification. Do this yourself, it helped me.

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What is the DSM-IV regulations of schizophrenia state?
That for a person to be classified as a schizophrenic, they must exhibit 2 symptoms of schizophrenia for at least a one-mounth duration
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What are the positive symptoms of schizophrenia?
Delusions, Experiences of control, Hallucinations, Disordered thinking.
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What is Alogia?
Poverty of speech, and the reduction of expressed emotion.
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Is reliability 'The extent to which pchyciatrists can agree on the same diagnoses when independently assessing patients'?
True
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Unreliable symptoms - (Mojtabi et al 1995), found that when psychiatrists asked to differentiate between 'bizarre' and 'non-bizarre' delusions, he only found a inter-rater reliability of around 0.40. Why does this go against the reliability of the diagnos
Because is does not show sufficient corralation between the diagnosis of schizophrenic and non-schizophrenic patients. This is because it does not have a high enough significance level.
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Ellason and Ross (1995) said:
People with Dissociative Identity Disorder have more schizophrenic symptoms than people diagnosed with schizophrenia.
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Thanks, did you learn anything? O:)
Yes
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Delusions, Experiences of control, Hallucinations, Disordered thinking.

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Unreliable symptoms - (Mojtabi et al 1995), found that when psychiatrists asked to differentiate between 'bizarre' and 'non-bizarre' delusions, he only found a inter-rater reliability of around 0.40. Why does this go against the reliability of the diagnos

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JORDAN, its alice O:) i was just doing revision and i realised you made this!!! haha

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