Given below are some statements. Read them carefully and choose the correct statement (s) from the given options.

Statement 1:  Many people with schizophrenia have blunted affect i.e. show emotions that are unsuited to the situation.

Statement 2: Some people with schizophrenia show no emotions at all and this condition is known as avolition affect. 

None of the given statement is correct.

The correct answer is Option 4: None of the given statement is correct.

Statement 1:  Many people with schizophrenia have blunted affect i.e. show emotions that are unsuited to the situation. This is false. It wrongly defines blunted affect as showing emotions unsuited to the situation, which is actually inappropriate affect.

[People with schizophrenia also show inappropriate affect, i.e. emotions that are unsuited to the situation (this is not blunted effect). Blunted effect means that many people with schizophrenia show less anger, sadness, joy, and other feelings than most people do.]

Statement 2: Some people with schizophrenia show no emotions at all and this condition is known as avolition affect. This is false. Some people with schizophrenia show no emotions at all and this condition is known as flat affect (not avolition).

"Negative symptoms of schizophrenia are ‘pathological deficits’ and include poverty of speech, blunted and flat affect, loss of volition, and social withdrawal. People with schizophrenia show alogia or poverty of speech, i.e. a reduction in speech and speech content. Many people with schizophrenia show less anger, sadness, joy, and other feelings than most people do. Thus they have blunted affect. Some show no emotions at all, a condition known as flat affect. Also patients with schizophrenia experience avolition, or apathy and an inability to start or complete a course of action. People with this disorder may withdraw socially and become totally focused on their own ideas and fantasies.