Question

Thirty-year-old nellie has been diagnosed with schizophrenia. she is unable to ignore irrelevant stimuli and she often gives her undivided attention to minute stimuli such as a spotlight shining in a window. this type of attention problem is thought to contribute to:

Answer 1

The correct answer is disorganized thoughts.
As you can see in the example above, Nellie is unable to focus on anything of importance - quite conversely, her attention is grabbed by irrelevant stimuli such as a spotlight shining in a window. Her thoughts are disorganized due to her suffering from schizophrenia.