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
