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Solutions For Abnormal Psychology Chapter 10 Problem 6TY

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Schizophrenic disorders are associated with the crazy behavior and the most common example is a delusion that is associated with false beliefs about the world. Symptoms include inappropriate emotion or effect, voice is monotonous, hallucinations, catatonic behavior and negative symptoms.

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People with schizophrenia do not possess normal behaviors, emotions or thought processes that are present in the general population. This is termed as negative symptoms. The most common negative symptoms are diminished emotional expression, anhedonia, avolition, alogia and psychomotor retardation.

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Hence the option d is not correct.

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Positive symptoms in an individual suffering with schizophrenia are unusual thoughts, feelings and behaviors, delusions and persecutory delusions.

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Hence the option a and b are not correct.

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Cognitive defects include impairment in visual and verbal learning,, memory inability to pay attention, decreased speed of information processing.

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Hence the correct option is .