A Patient Has Been Diagnosed with Schizophrenia

question 36

Multiple Choice

A patient has been diagnosed with schizophrenia.During a recent interview,he shows the nurse a picture of a man holding a decapitated head.He describes this picture as horrifying but laughs loudly when looking at it.This behaviour is a display of:

• A)confusion.
• B)ambivalence.
• C)depersonalization.
• D)inappropriate affect.

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Definitions:

Expressive Vocabulary

The sum total of the words that one can use in the production of language.

Babbling

A stage in child language acquisition during which an infant experiments with producing sounds, often repetitive, like "baba" or "dada," that do not carry specific meanings but are precursors to speech.

Cooing

Prelinguistic, articulated vowel-like sounds that appear to reflect feelings of positive excitement.

Verbal Acquisition

The process through which individuals learn and accumulate words and enhance their language abilities.