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Psychosis means

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a significant loss of contact with reality

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Schizophrenia occurs in about

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1/100 of the general population

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Which of the following accounts for the belief that schizophrenia is more common in males than females?

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Females have less severe symptoms

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Who has the highest risk of developing schizophrenia?

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A person whose father was over 50 when he/she was born

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The majority of cases of schizophrenia begin in

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late adolescence/early adulthood

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dementia praecox

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Early mental degradation

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Delusions are

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disturbances in the content of thought

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What would be an example of a delusion?

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Bob thought the CIA was controlling his thoughts

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Sterling believes that the TV special on last night told her that she should break up with her boyfirend. This type of beilef is an example of

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delusion of reference

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How common are delusions in schizophrenia?

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> 90%

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Hallucinations are

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sensory experiences with no basis in reality

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What is the most common type of hallucination seen in schizo?

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Voices in your head

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What type of hallucinations are the most common?

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auditory

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Neuroimaging studies of hallucinating patients suggest that auditory halucinations

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reflect a cognitive error

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People with schizo have difficulty with the form of thought. This is observed in…

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disorganized speech.

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Negative symptoms are

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characterized as an absence of normal behaviors

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Most individuals with schizophrenia

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display a mix of positive and negative symptoms

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What is most common in individuals with paranoid schizophrenia?

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Reference delusions

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Which of the following people is more likely exhibiting paranoid schizophrenia?

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The woman who believes that she is being persecuted because she is Helen of Troy

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Disorganized schizo

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is characterized by disorganized speech

21
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Which of the following is likely a sign of disorganized schizo?

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Peter appears to feel no emotion and tends to make odd facial expressions and movements

22
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Which of the following statements is correct about the changes for the diagnosis of schizo in the DSM-5?

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Subtypes of schizophrenia were removed but the diagnosis of schizo remains

23
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Patients in a catatonic stupor show

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pronounced motor symptoms

24
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There is some debate as to whether _____________ is a variant of another mood disorder

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schizoaffective

25
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Julia had psychotic symptoms with symptoms of bipolar disorder. She is likely to be ultimately diagnosed with…

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schizoaffective disorder

26
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If someone has schizophrenia for less than six months, they have

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schiphreniform disorder

27
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Individuals with delusional disorder differ from those with schizophrenia in that

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they behave relatively normally other than the delusions

28
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Most evidence suggests that, if schizophrenia is inherited, it

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involves a multitued of genes that work in concert

29
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A “proband” or “index case” is someone who

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has the disorder of interest

30
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“Familial” doesn’t mean the same thing as “genetic” because

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families share genes AND the environment

31
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What is the risk of developing schizophrenia for someone who has one parent with the disorder?

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10%

32
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Adoption studies are used

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to separate the effects of nature and nurture

33
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When adoption studies of schizophrenia contain all the neccessary controls and measurements

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index subjects are more likely to develop schizo than control subjects

34
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What increases the likelihood that children will show high levels of thought disorders?

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Vague, confusing, and unclear communication

35
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Which of the following is a plausible explanation for how maternal influenza might lead to schizophrenia later in life?

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Maternal antibodies could cross the placenta and interfere with brain development

36
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Anything that interferes with normal brain development increases the risk of…

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developing schizo

37
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What increases risk of developing schizophrenia?

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Prenatal influenza exposure

38
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Schizophrenia is best described as

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genetically influenced multiple gene disorder

39
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The fact that a significant number of monozygotic twins share the same placenta, while no dizygotic twins do, suggests that

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We may have overestimated the influence of genetics in schizo

40
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Enlarged brain ventricles suggest

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that there has been a loss of brain tissue

41
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Schizophrenics show lower levels of activity in their

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frontal lobes

42
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Abherrent salience means

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dysregulated dopamine can cause schizos to pay too much attention to stimuli that aren’t important

43
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Alterations in glutamate levels can produce…

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schizo-like symptoms

44
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Studies on neurocognition have fond that those with schizo

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can not pay attention on demand

45
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What is a stressor that has been found to increase the risk of developing schizo?

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Being raised an immigrant, poor communication when small

46
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Most with schizo

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continue to show symptoms despite treatment

47
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First-gen antipsychotics work by

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blocking dopamine receptors

48
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Extrapyrimidal side effects are

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involuntary movements that result mainly from taking first-gen antipsychotics

49
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Which of the following is true about second generation antipsychotics in the treatment of schizo?

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They are better for treatment

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