Abnormal Chapter 14

A mother experiences "baby blues" shortly after delivering a child. The chances that she later will develop postpartum psychosis are closest to

1 in 1,000

A person with schizophrenia demonstrates poverty of speech and experiences auditory hallucinations. According to the "Type 1- Type 2" evaluation categorization, this person would be...

A mix of type 1 or type 2

In general, the closer that people are genetically related to someone with schizophrenia, the more likely they are to be diagnosed with schizophrenia as well. This is evidence of...

A positive correlation between a schizophrenia diagnosis and closeness of relationship

The viral explanation for schizophrenia suggest that brain abnormalities, and therefore schizophrenia, result from viral exposure

Before birth

Which two pairs most closely represent opposites in terms of the behavior you would observe in people with schizophrenia

Catatonic stupor and catatonic excitement

Those with schizophrenia who stop responding to their environment and remain motionless and silent for long periods of time are experiencing

Catatonic stuppor

Occasionally, you see or hear things. Your friends tell you it's your imagination, but eventually, you come to think your friends are hiding something and you develop delusions of persecution to explain their behavior. This thinking leads you down the "rational path to madness This scenario is consistent with the

Cognitive view

Antonio believes that the anchor on the evening television news is speaking directly and personally to him. He even goes to the television studio to talk to the anchor. Antonio is suffering from..

Delusions of reference

The main difference between hallucinations and delusions is that...

Hallucinations involve perception and delusions involve belief

The complete remission rate for those diagnosed with schizophrenia is...

Higher in developing countries than in undeveloped countries, possibly because of better family and social support

The data from studies of the biological and adoptive parents of children who receive a diagnosis of schizophrenia as adults show that the concordance rate of schizophrenia with biological relatives is...

Higher than with adoptive relatives

Which statement accurately represents the "rational path to madness"?

I experience disturbing symptoms. I talk them over with others. Others say I am imagining things. I decide others are lying to me.

If observation of a relationship between "expressed emotion" in families and recovery from schizophrenia demonstrate cause-and-effect, one would predict that relapse would be least common in people with schizophrenia whose families

Infrequently express criticism and allow a good deal of privacy

People with schizophrenia have not been found to have

Larger amounts of cortical gray matter

Compared to those diagnosed with schizophrenia who live in developing countries...

Less likely to recover fully and more likely to be hospitalized

Schizophrenia is found in all socioeconomic classes. However, it is most likely to be found in someone from a...

Lower socioeconomic level

What are people who take medication for schizophrenia often given medication that helps control shaking and tremors?

Medication used to treat schizophrenia leads to Parkinson-like symptoms

In general, the problems that mentally ill chemical abusers (MICAs) face in terms of diagnosis and treatment are...

More than those faced by either people with severe mental disorders or chemical abuse disorders

Armand does not feel much emotion and does not really want to do anything. He has also completely withdrawn from his friends and family. The presence of these behaviors illustrates ____ schizophrenia

Negative

Poverty of speech, blunted and flat affect, loss of volition, and social withdrawal are all examples of _____ symptoms of schizophrenia

Negative

Shelly is sitting on the couch with her husband and children when suddenly she smells smoke. Howeverm no one else can smell the smoke and there is no fire. What is she experiencing?

Olfactory Hallucinations

Millie sees pretty colored butterflies on all the walls. She also hears gentle music, which is not actually there. The presence of these behaviors illustrates ____ symptoms of schizophrenia.

Positive

The stage of the development of schizophrenia marked by deterioration of functioning and the display of some mild symptoms is called the

Prodromal Phase

The behavioral view of schizophrenia

Provides a partial explanation for the origins and symptoms of schizophrenia

Researchers found that phenothiazines reduced psychotic symptoms but also caused Parkinsonian symptoms, like tremors. This discovery suggests that...

Schizophrenia is tied to excessive dopamine

Most contemporary psychodynamic theorists would agree with which statement?

Schizophrenogenic mothers, if they do exist, don't create children with schizophrenia

Based on family pedigree studies, which relative of an individual with a diagnosis of schizophrenia would be most at risk for developing the disorder?

Sister

Those with schizophrenia who are unable to recognize other people's needs and emotions and who also distance themselves from reality are displaying...

Social withdrawal

People around those who have been diagnosed with schizophrenia begin to treat them as if they are "crazy", expecting and overreacting to odd behaviors that they might not even notice in others. This observation is most consistent with the ____ understanding of schizophrenia

Sociocultural

If people with schizophrenia make at least modest gains when they receive behavioral therapy, this would indicate that...

Some symptoms of schizophrenia may be learned

Recent research shows that if one identical twin develops schizophrenia, there is almost 1 50% chance the other twin will develop schizophrenia. If future research confirms this finding, we will have evidence of...

Strong environmental and string genetic components of schizophrenia

A young adult used LSD and now experiences hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized speech. This would be referred to as...

Substance/medication-induced psychotic disorder

If you could get inside of the head" of a person experiencing auditory hallucinations, you would most likely find that...

The person actually produces nerve signals of sound in his brain

Which is a tactile hallucination?

There are invisible bugs crawling under my tingling skin

A person diagnosed with schizophrenia is not hospitalized, yet eventually shows complete remission of symptoms. This pattern is

Typical of what happens in developing countries

Which is not consistent with the most common pattern of schizophrenia?

Women develop the disorder earlier and more severely than men

A person with schizophrenia who hears all the animals around her making plans to get her ready for the ball, and comes to think of herself as Cinderella, is experiencing a(N) ______ hallucination and a delusion of _____.

auditory, grandeur

A person with schizophrenia who is experiencing anhedonia is displayign

Blunted or flat effect

What kinds of treatment programs seem to work best for mentally ill chemical abusers (MICAs)?

Long-term, individualized, comprehensive therapy

A person with schizophrenia who says, "It's cold today. My cold is better but I got it from the nurse. She is a blonde who lives in Manhattan. I live in Manhattan with Jimmy Carter" is experiencing...

Loose associations

The link between dopamine and schizophrenia is supported by the finding that...

Lower dopamine activity helps remove schizophrenic symptoms

Which is the best example of a double-blind communication?

Saying"I love you" to a child but refusing to allow that child in your lap

A middle-aged individual shows many of the negative symptoms of schizophrenia and at the same time often appears profoundly depressed. The symptoms have lasted almost a year. This is an example of...

Schizoaffective disorder

Which is not related to a fuller recovery from schizophrenia

Schizophrenia developing in early life

Patients are more likely to recover from schizophrenia if they

Demonstrated good premorbid functioning

While type 1 schizophrenia is dominated by ____ symptoms, Type 2 schizophrenia is dominated by ____ symptoms

Positive, negative

According to Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1948), schizophrenia is caused by

A schizophrenic mother

In 2001, Andrea Yates, showing symptoms of postpartum psychosis, drowned her five children. Assuming she was suffering from postpartum psychosis, her actions were...

Atypical, less than 5% of women with postpartum psychosis harm or attempt to harm their offspring

The most common type of hallucination in schizophrenia is...

Auditory

I sit staring at a blank page, unable to make myself write a new multiple-choice test item; I just don't seem to care. My behavior is like that of people with schizophrenia displaying the symptom called...

Avolition

Those with schizophrenia who hold awkward and bizarre positions for long period of time are experiencing

Catatonic posturing

Recently, the dopamine hypothesis for schizophrenia has been challenged because it has been discovered that...

Effective new drugs abnormal neurotransmitter activity of serotonin as well as dopamine

Which is the best example of a finding from genetic linkage and molecular biology studies?

Gene defects on certain chromosomes predispose one to schizophrenia

Postpartum psychosis occurs

In about 0.1% of women, beginning soon after childbirth

A person with schizophrenia who is experiencing alogia is displaying

Poverty of speech

According to Freud, people with schizophrenia

Regress to a pre-ego stat of primary narcissism

The term schizophrenia is derived from the Greek for

Split mind