a serious mental disorder characterised by severe disruptions in psychological functioning which affects thoughts, perception, language, emotion and loss of contact with reality
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positive symptoms are symptoms that :
add to cognitive functioning e.g. halluncinations or delusions
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alogia is:
when speech becomes less clear, may insert irrelevant words in the middle of a sentence
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Rosenhan's insane study found that
7/8 fake patients were diagnosed with Schizophrenia
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validity is
the extent to which something measures what it intends too
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a difference between the ICD and the DSM is
the DSM states two symptoms must be present for a month to be diagnosed whereas the ICD only needs one first rank for a month
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Bentall (1993) argues that
each symptom of Schz should be treated as a disorder in its own right with its own cause and treatment
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positive symptoms are symptoms that :
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add to cognitive functioning e.g. halluncinations or delusions
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