Question

ivan has severe schizophrenia. he cannot organize his thoughts and talks rambling sentences that dont seem to be related. this is a:
a. cognitive symptom.
b. hallucination.
c. negative symptom.
d. symptom of his medication.

Explanation:

Schizophrenia can have cognitive symptoms which involve difficulties with thought organization, attention, memory, etc. Ivan's inability to organize thoughts and rambling speech relate to cognitive functioning issues. Hallucinations are perceptual disturbances (not matching here). Negative symptoms involve deficits like flat affect, social withdrawal. Medication symptoms would be side - effects, not the primary symptoms of schizophrenia as described here. So the correct answer is A.

Answer:

A. cognitive symptom.