Chapter 13

Question 1

Psychosis means

Answer 1

a significant loss of contact with reality

Question 2

Schizophrenia occurs in about

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1/100 of the general population

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Females have less severe symptoms

Question 4

Who has the highest risk of developing schizophrenia?

Answer 4

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

Question 5

The majority of cases of schizophrenia begin in

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late adolescence/early adulthood

Question 6

dementia praecox

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Early mental degradation

Question 7

Delusions are

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disturbances in the content of thought

Question 8

What would be an example of a delusion?

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Bob thought the CIA was controlling his thoughts

Question 9

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

Answer 9

delusion of reference

Question 10

How common are delusions in schizophrenia?

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> 90%

Question 11

Hallucinations are

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sensory experiences with no basis in reality

Question 12

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

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Voices in your head

Question 13

What type of hallucinations are the most common?

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auditory

Question 14

Neuroimaging studies of hallucinating patients suggest that auditory halucinations

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reflect a cognitive error

Question 15

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

Answer 15

disorganized speech.

Question 16

Negative symptoms are

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characterized as an absence of normal behaviors

Question 17

Most individuals with schizophrenia

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display a mix of positive and negative symptoms

Question 18

What is most common in individuals with paranoid schizophrenia?

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Reference delusions

Question 19

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

Question 20

Disorganized schizo

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is characterized by disorganized speech

Question 21

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

Question 22

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

Question 23

Patients in a catatonic stupor show

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pronounced motor symptoms

Question 24

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

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schizoaffective

Question 25

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

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schizoaffective disorder

Question 26

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

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schiphreniform disorder

Question 27

Individuals with delusional disorder differ from those with schizophrenia in that

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they behave relatively normally other than the delusions

Question 28

Most evidence suggests that, if schizophrenia is inherited, it

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involves a multitued of genes that work in concert

Question 29

A "proband" or "index case" is someone who

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has the disorder of interest

Question 30

"Familial" doesn't mean the same thing as "genetic" because

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families share genes AND the environment

Question 31

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

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10%

Question 32

Adoption studies are used

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to separate the effects of nature and nurture

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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

Question 34

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

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Vague, confusing, and unclear communication

Question 35

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

Question 36

Anything that interferes with normal brain development increases the risk of...

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developing schizo

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What increases risk of developing schizophrenia?

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Prenatal influenza exposure

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Schizophrenia is best described as

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genetically influenced multiple gene disorder

Question 39

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

Question 40

Enlarged brain ventricles suggest

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that there has been a loss of brain tissue

Question 41

Schizophrenics show lower levels of activity in their

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frontal lobes

Question 42

Abherrent salience means

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

Question 43

Alterations in glutamate levels can produce...

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schizo-like symptoms

Question 44

Studies on neurocognition have fond that those with schizo

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can not pay attention on demand

Question 45

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

Question 46

Most with schizo

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continue to show symptoms despite treatment

Question 47

First-gen antipsychotics work by

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blocking dopamine receptors

Question 48

Extrapyrimidal side effects are

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involuntary movements that result mainly from taking first-gen antipsychotics

Question 49

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

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They are better for treatment