Lesson 15 (abnormal psychology)

Question 1

What NAMI provides that other approaches to therapy do NOT

Answer 1

advocacy

Question 2

If one could use only one treatment for schizophrenia and wanted the most effective treatment, you should choose

Answer 2

antipsychotic drugs

Question 3

After starting treatment with antipsychotic drugs, tradive dyskinseia typically requires at least ___ to develop

Answer 3

a year

Question 4

The most widely used atypical antipsychotic drug is

Answer 4

Clozaril

Question 5

Mindfullness is MOST similar to which of the following therapies

Answer 5

cognitive-behavioral

Question 6

In the past the most common patter of deterioration in patients that apparently resulted from institutionalization was

Answer 6

social breakdown syndrome

Question 7

“Stay in your own private world as long as you need to, until you want to come out and share the world with me,” would most likely be said by which therapist?

Answer 7

Fromm-Reichmann

Question 8

Tokens

Answer 8

can be exchanged for a variety of reinforcers

Question 9

If a schizophrenic were making involuntary tick-like movements of the tongue, face, mouth, or whole body, smacking the lips, and making sucking and chewing movements, one would suspect the patient

Answer 9

had been taking antipsychotic medication for a long time

Question 10

A person attending an HVN (hearing voices network) meeting, can expect to get the message that

Answer 10

all interpretations of voices are equally valid