The Type of Schizophrenia That Involves Thoughts of Being Persecuted

question 179

Multiple Choice

The type of schizophrenia that involves thoughts of being persecuted or thoughts of grandeur is ____ schizophrenia.

• A) catatonic
• B) disorganized
• C) paranoid
• D) melancholic

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Definitions:

Motivational Bias

A cognitive bias that affects the direction of people's behavior by their underlying motives, desires, or needs.

Focus-of-Attention Bias

The tendency to prioritize and remember information that is the focus of one's attention, often at the expense of other information.

Actor-Observer Difference

The bias in attribution whereby actors tend to see their own behavior as due to characteristics of the external situation, whereas observers tend to attribute actors’ behavior to the actors’ internal, personal characteristics.

Halo Effect

The tendency of our general or overall liking for a person to influence our assessment of more specific traits of that person. The halo effect can produce inaccuracy in our ratings of others’ traits and performances.