Question

Jonathan is unwilling to communicate with others, has no apparent feeling, and remains motionless for hours at a time. Jonathan is exhibiting__________.

Answer 1

Negative symptoms of schizophrenia

Step-by-step explanation:

Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that includes both positive and negative symptoms.

• Positive symptoms include hallucinations, delusions and thought disorders.
• Negative symptoms refer to the absent of normal behaviors and they include: social withdrawal, apathy, flat affect (that it can seem like a lack of feelings) and absence of initiative to begin a behavior.

In this example, Jonathan doesn't want to communicate with other people, has no apparent feeling and remains motionless for hours at a time. We can see that these 3 behaviors refer to negative symptoms of Schizophrenia and refer to Jonathan's lack of normal behaviors.