Quick Quiz: Schizophrenia

You know what schizophrenia is. If you're doing front-line social work, you've encountered people with the diagnosis more than a little. So have ASWB exam writers and they're fairly likely to include something about schizophrenia on the test. It's worth having schizophrenia pretty well understood.

Here's a quick fill-in-the-blanks workout on the topic, with text pulled from Wikipedia's schizophrenia page.

Ready...steady...go!


1. A  _____________ is a perception in the absence of external stimulus that has qualities of real perception.

2. A _____________ is a mistaken belief that is held with strong conviction even when presented with superior evidence to the contrary.

3. _________________  & _________________ are peak periods for the onset of schizophrenia

4. _____________  symptoms are deficits of normal emotional responses or of other thought processes, and are less responsive to medication.

5. _______________ symptoms can include delusions, disordered thoughts and speech, and tactile, auditory, visual, olfactory and gustatory hallucinations.

6. A combination of ___________  and environmental factors play a role in the development of schizophrenia.

7. A _________________ diagnosis is made when the person has features of both schizophrenia and a mood disorder—either bipolar disorder or depression—but does not strictly meet diagnostic criteria for either alone

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Answers below. Scroll down...

1. Hallucination
2. Delusion
3. Late adolescence and early adulthood
4. Negative
5. Positive
6. Genetic
7. Schizoaffective disorder