AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -A delusion is a fixed, false, and idiosyncratic belief and is one of the trilogy of psychotic symptoms: hallucinations, delusions, and thought disorder.

Detailed explanation-2: -What are delusions? Schizophrenia delusions are a schizophrenia symptom that causes a person to believe something that isn’t true-even when others try to tell them or show them their beliefs are untrue.

Detailed explanation-3: -A delusion is a belief that is clearly false and that indicates an abnormality in the affected person’s content of thought. The false belief is not accounted for by the person’s cultural or religious background or his or her level of intelligence.

Detailed explanation-4: -Types of delusions include persecutory, erotomanic, grandiose, jealous, somatic, and mixed/unspecific.