AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Hallucinations are false perceptions, such as hearing, seeing, or feeling something that is not there. Schizophrenia is one type of psychotic disorder. People with bipolar disorder may also have psychotic symptoms.

Detailed explanation-2: -Schizophrenia is a severe, chronic brain disorder that causes people to interpret reality abnormally-they don’t know what sights, sounds, and experiences are real or what they are imagining.

Detailed explanation-3: -Psychotic disorders are mental illnesses that are characterized by psychotic symptoms, which can generally be described as a loss of contact with reality. These types of disorders include schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder and schizophreniform disorder.

Detailed explanation-4: -There are actually several different types of schizophrenia depending on the person’s symptoms, but generally, the main types of schizophrenia include paranoid schizophrenia, catatonic schizophrenia, disorganized or hebephrenic schizophrenia, residual schizophrenia, and undifferentiated schizophrenia.