Describe the negative symptoms of schizophrenia.

Key terms and concepts that may be included in student responses:
▪ Restricted affect-severe reduction or absence of affective (emotional)responses to the environment; may reflect severe anhedonia-loss of the ability to experience pleasure
▪ Avolition/asociality-inability to persist at common, goal-directed activities
▪ Cognitive deficits-attention and memory, deficits in working memory