The Fragmented and Disconnected Speech That People with Schizophrenia Often

question 34

Multiple Choice

The fragmented and disconnected speech that people with schizophrenia often experience is called

• A) alogia.
• B) disorganized speech.
• C) a neologism.
• D) flat affect.

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Definitions:

Scattergraph

A graphical method used in statistics to display the values of two variables for a set of data, helping to identify the relationship between them.

Independent Variable

A variable that acts as a causal factor; activity is the independent variable, as represented by the letter X, in the equation Y = a + bX.

Least-squares Regression

A statistical method used to determine the line of best fit by minimizing the sum of the squares of the vertical deviations from each data point to the line.

Slope

In mathematics, the slope is a measure of the steepness or the inclination of a line, defined as the ratio of the rise over the run between two points on the line.