Question

Jack graduated from high school and got a job working in a video store. After
working for about 6 months Jack began to hear voices that told him he was no
good. He also began to believe that his boss was planting small video cameras in
the returned tapes to catch him making mistakes. These are _____________ symptoms of schizophrenia.

Answer 1

Answer:

hallucination

Explanation:

as the term means a false belief

Answer 2

These are positive symptoms of schizophrenia.

• Positive symptoms of schizophrenia can be classified as:

1. Hallucinations
2. Delusions

• A hallucination is a sensory experience which seems real but does not actually occur.
• A delusion is a firm belief held by a person even after strong contradictory evidence.

• What Jack is experiencing are auditory hallucinations( hearing voices) and delusions of persecution (thinking his boss is planting small cameras).

Thus, Jack is experiencing Positive Symptoms of Schizophrenia.