Question 1

Psychosis means:

Accepted Answer

loss of contact with reality.

Question 2

The MAIN difference between hallucinations and delusions is that:

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hallucinations involve perception and delusions involve beliefs.

Question 3

A person with schizophrenia who said, âIt\'s cold today. My cold is better but I got it from the nurse. She is a big blonde who lives in Manhattan. I live in Manhattan with Jimmy Carter,â is experiencing:

Accepted Answer

loose associations

Question 4

If someone had the delusion of being an animal, the person MOST likely would be experiencing:

Accepted Answer

lycanthropy.

Question 5

Which of the following would be the MOST common type of hallucination?

Accepted Answer

That dog is singing to me and asking me to sing along

Question 6

Research with those experiencing auditory hallucinations has demonstrated all of the following EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

movement of the oval window of the cochlea.

Question 7

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

Accepted Answer

social withdrawal.

Question 8

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

Accepted Answer

catatonic stupor

Question 9

Which of the following two pairs MOST closely represent opposites, in terms of the behavior you would observe in people with schizophrenia?

Accepted Answer

catatonic stupor and catatonic excitement

Question 10

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

Accepted Answer

prodromal phase.

Question 11

A person is socially withdrawn, speaks in odd ways, has strange ideas, and expresses little emotion, but is not displaying full-blown schizophrenic symptoms. What phase of schizophrenia is this person in?

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either prodromal or residual

Question 12

Which of the following is NOT related to a fuller recovery from schizophrenia?

Accepted Answer

schizophrenia developing in early life (

Question 13

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

Accepted Answer

a positive correlation between a schizophrenia diagnosis and closeness of relationship

Question 14

Which of the following statements MOST fits the evidence for the biological basis of schizophrenia?

Accepted Answer

Schizophrenia is a polygenetic disorder, probably impacting brain structure and chemical activity

Question 15

A young adult lives at home and has a parent who frequently exhibits delusions of grandeur, so much so that the young adult eventually develops delusions of grandeur, as well. The young adult\'s psychotic disorder is called:

Accepted Answer

shared psychotic disorder.

Question 16

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

Accepted Answer

Gene defects on certain chromosomes predispose one to schizophrenia

Question 17

Why are people taking medication for schizophrenia also often given medication that helps control shaking and tremors?

Accepted Answer

Medication used to treat schizophrenia leads to Parkinson-like symptoms.

Question 18

Which of the following supports the dopamine hypothesis for schizophrenia?

Accepted Answer

Antipsychotic drugs often produce Parkinson-like symptoms

Question 19

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

Accepted Answer

lower dopamine activity helps remove schizophrenic symptoms

Question 20

Chemically speaking, why do people who are methamphetamine addicts sometimes display schizophrenic-like behavior?

Accepted Answer

schizophrenic-like response

Question 21

Postpartum psychosis occurs:

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in 1-2 percent of women, beginning soon after childbirth.

Question 22

Symptoms of postpartum psychosis appear to be triggered by:

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a large change in hormone levels occurring just after childbirth

Question 23

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

Accepted Answer

atypical; less than 10 percent of women with postpartum psychosis harm or attempt to harm their offspring

Question 24

According to Freud, people with schizophrenia:

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regress to a pre-ego state of primary narcissism

Question 25

A psychodynamic theorist of the twenty-first century is MOST likely to say:

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Biological abnormalities can lead to extreme regression.â

Question 26

Compared to African Americans, white Americans are:

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less likely to receive a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and less likely to be institutionalized.

Question 27

A country has an almost 3 percent prevalence for schizophrenia. That country:

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has a higher-than-average schizophrenia prevalence.

Question 28

Studies relating rates of diagnosis of schizophrenia to poverty and race show:

Accepted Answer

a connection between diagnosis of schizophrenia and both race and poverty.

Question 29

The complete remission rate for those diagnosed with schizophrenia is:

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

Question 30

David Rosenhan (1973) sent eight normal people to various psychiatric hospitals. All eight complained of hearing voices that said âempty,â âhollow,â and âthud.â After being admitted to one of the hospitals, each person acted normally, yet all were diagnosed as schizophrenic. One of the conclusions from this study is that:

Accepted Answer

the expectations produced by labeling can alter perception

Question 31

Families that display high levels of expressed emotion do all of the following EXCEPT:

Accepted Answer

approve of one another\'s actions.

Question 32

Which of the following statements MOST accurately reflects current thinking about psychosis and schizophrenia?

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People with different diagnoses can exhibit psychosis; it\'s not limited to schizophrenia.

Question 33

A person who has a needle inserted into the brain through the eye socket, which is then rotated in order to destroy brain tissue, is experiencing a:

Accepted Answer

transorbital lobotomy

Question 34

Why were lobotomies so enthusiastically accepted by the medical community in the 1940s and 1950s?

Accepted Answer

The inventors of this procedure were gifted and dedicated physicians.

Question 35

In behavioral terms, what is a token?

Accepted Answer

a reinforcer

Question 36

If one could only use a single treatment for schizophrenia and wanted the MOST effective treatment, one should choose:

Accepted Answer

antipsychotic drugs

Question 37

What is the MOST accurate advice you could give someone thinking about taking traditional antipsychotic medication for their schizophrenia?

Accepted Answer

Although these drugs will probably work, there are significant side effects

Question 38

If one were taking antipsychotic drugs for schizophrenia, one would expect the drugs to:

Accepted Answer

be most effective against positive symptoms of schizophrenia

Question 39

A woman has been treated with chlorpromazine for several years. Lately, she seems to be chewing gum all the time and her arms are

Accepted Answer

tardive dyskinesia.

Question 40

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

Accepted Answer

had been taking antipsychotic medication for at least a year

Question 41

The MOST successful way to diminish or eliminate tardive dyskinesia is:

Accepted Answer

to lower or stop the antipsychotic medication.

Question 42

Research suggests that an effective treatment plan for schizophrenia should include:

Accepted Answer

biological treatments and psychological treatments.

Question 43

Someone says to you, âHomeless people scare me. They\'re all crazy.â What is your BEST response?

Accepted Answer

Unfortunately, about a third of homeless people are mentally ill

Question 44

If you were looking for people who have schizophrenia, where would you MOST likely find them?

Accepted Answer

living on their own, unsupervised

Question 45

In the criminal justice world, âfrequent fliersâ are people who:

Accepted Answer

are mentally ill with high recidivism rates.

Question 46

Which of the following is the BEST example of the âcriminalizationâ of the mentally ill?

Accepted Answer

Mentally ill people who commit minor crimes are jailed instead of treated.

Question 47

Where is a person with a serious mental illness MOST likely to be housed?

Accepted Answer

in a community mental health center halfway house Incorrect  in jail

Question 48

In the treatment of schizophrenia, a case manager\'s primarily goal is to help with

Accepted Answer

coordination of services.

Question 49

Schizophrenics who are working in a sheltered workshop are receiving:

Accepted Answer

occupational training.

Question 50

The staff members who work in halfway houses are usually

Accepted Answer

paraprofessionals.

Question 51

Schizophrenics who receive 24-hour supervision in a community setting, usually following a milieu approach, are receiving:

Accepted Answer

halfway house services

Question 52

Why is the diagnosis of MICA important in treatment?

Accepted Answer

A dual diagnosis is more complicated to treat than a single one

Question 53

If a person being treated for schizophrenia goes every day to a community care program where the focus is on improving social skills and receiving therapy, the person is MOST likely participating in:

Accepted Answer

partial hospitalization.

Question 54

In the original Community Mental Health Act, the place where individuals would be treated was a:

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community mental health center.

Question 55

Deinstitutionalization:

Accepted Answer

was aimed at returning patients with mental disorders to their communities.

Question 56

The Community Mental Health Act stipulated that patients with mental disorders should receive all of the following without leaving their communities EXCEPT:

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research participation.

Question 57

Who is MOST likely to offer the advice, âIf you have the urge to yell at your \'voices\' in public, do so with a cell phone up to your earâ?

Accepted Answer

a member of the Hearing Voices Network

Question 58

A person attending a Hearing Voices Network (HVN) meeting can expect to learn that:

Accepted Answer

all interpretations of voices are equally valid.

Question 59

Social therapy appears to play the STRONGEST role in:

Accepted Answer

lessening the possibility of relapse in those recovering from schizophrenia

Question 60

Families with HIGH levels of âexpressed emotionâ:

Accepted Answer

express negative emotions like hostility and criticism.

Question 61

The goal of family therapy is:

Accepted Answer

to help the family better support the schizophrenic patient

Question 62

A family with a high level of expressed emotion may display a great deal of:

Accepted Answer

criticism

Question 63

New-wave cognitive-behavioral therapies are MOST similar to:

Accepted Answer

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

Question 64

Therapists who advise clients to apply special breathing and relaxation techniques in response to their hallucinatory voices are using a technique from the cognitive-behavioral approach that involves:

Accepted Answer

ways of coping with unpleasant hallucinations

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