Deck 11: Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

Question 1

About ______ percent of Americans warrant a diagnosis of schizophrenia at some point in their lives.

A) 1
B) 3
C) 5
D) 7

Answer 1

1

Question 2

The typical sequence of phases through which schizophrenia progresses is ______.

A) prodromal, residual, acute
B) acute, prodromal, residual
C) acute, residual, prodromal
D) prodromal, acute, residual

Answer 2

prodromal, acute, residual

Question 3

Perhaps the most puzzling and disabling of all the mental disorders is ______.

A) panic disorder
B) schizophrenia
C) depression
D) antisocial personality

Answer 3

panic disorder

Question 4

The facial expression of a person with schizophrenia would often ______.

A) show anger
B) seem awkward and distorted
C) lack expressiveness
D) look confused

Question 5

During the ______ phase, the person with schizophrenia's behavior will return to a level where flagrant psychotic symptoms are not present but significant cognitive, social, and emotional deficits are apparent.

A) acute
B) prodromal
C) residual
D) chronic

Question 6

The most frequent age of onset for schizophrenia is ______.

A) the latency period
B) right after puberty
C) late adolescence or early adulthood
D) mid-20s to early 30s

Question 7

After the onset of a schizophrenic episode, a full return to normal behavior ______.

A) never occurs
B) is uncommon, but does occur
C) is common and usually occurs
D) always occurs

Question 8

Schizophrenia is a ______ disorder that affects ______ of a person's life.

A) temporary, a small part
B) temporary, every aspect
C) chronic, a small part
D) chronic, every aspect

Question 9

The phase of schizophrenia marked by a slow, steady deterioration and gradual decline in function before clear-cut psychotic behaviors emerge is called the ______ phase.

A) residual
B) acute
C) chronic
D) prodromal

Question 10

Tracy has schizophrenia. Prior to the rapid onset of symptoms, Tracy was a first-year college student at a local liberal arts college where she was active and involved in the residence life community. Her behavior suddenly became characterized by hallucinations, delusions, talking to herself in the dining hall and classes. She has stopped bathing and does not changes her clothes. The description of Tracy's behavior suggests that she was experiencing the ___________ phase of schizophrenia.

A) residual
B) acute
C) chronic
D) prodromal

Question 11

______have a slightly higher risk of developing schizophrenia and also tend to develop the disorder at a (n) _______age.

A) Women; earlier
B) Men; later
C) Women; later
D) Men; earlier

Question 12

The clinical syndrome that best corresponds to popular conceptions of "madness" or "lunacy" is ______.

A) dissociative identity disorder
B) bipolar affective disorder
C) antisocial personality
D) schizophrenia

Question 13

Approximately ______ people are treated for schizophrenia in the United States each year.

A) 100,000
B) 1 million
C) 5 million
D) 8 million

Question 14

About ______ million people worldwide suffer from schizophrenia

A) 12
B) 18
C) 24
D) 30

Question 15

Phyllis's behavior is characterized by waning interest in social activities. She has slowly been becoming more remote in her interactions with the world. She just can't seem to keep up with her daily responsibilities. She can't even find the time to bathe or change her clothes regularly. At times she rambles off incoherently when talking to her friends. Her behavior is typical of someone in the _______ phase of schizophrenia.

A) residual
B) acute
C) chronic
D) prodromal

Question 16

Lori Schiller, the high school senior who suffered from schizophrenia, ______ as the first significant symptom of her disorder.

A) heard voices
B) experienced delusions of persecution
C) withdrew from other people
D) had a fight with another girl

Question 17

Which of the following is one of the three phases typical of schizophrenia?

A) residual
B) remitting
C) chronic
D) acceleration

Question 18

Angela is hospitalized after a suicide attempt. In the hospital, she spends all of her time drawing sketches of fantastic goblins and monsters whom she calls "hellsmen." She claims
That these "hellsmen" talk to her and, in fact, ordered her to make her suicide attempt. Often,
She seems to be talking to invisible persons in the room and following orders from some
Unseen source. Her disorder is most likely ______.

A) schizophrenia
B) dissociative identity disorder
C) bipolar affective disorder
D) schizoid personality

Question 19

Someone experiencing a (n) _________onset of schizophrenic symptoms typically has symptoms that occur suddenly, often within a few weeks or months, and who appears to have been well adjusted and shown few signs of behavioral disturbance.

A) chronic
B) onset
C) acute
D) steady-state

Question 20

Paula has schizophrenia. Her behavior is characterized by difficulties in speaking and thinking clearly, as well as a deep sense of apathy. Although she is not hallucinating or suffering
Delusions, as she had been a few months previously, she is still having so much difficulty
Organizing herself to deal with daily tasks that it is nearly impossible for her to live
Independently. She is in the ______ phase of schizophrenia.

A) residual
B) acute
C) chronic
D) prodromal

Question 21

______ symptoms of schizophrenia represent behavioral deficiencies such as social withdrawal, poverty of speech and thought, flattened affect, and psychomotor retardation.

A) Primary
B) Secondary
C) Positive
D) Negative

Question 22

Women with schizophrenia differ from men with the disorder in each of the following Ways except

A) Women exhibit a poorer response to drug therapy than men.
B) Women exhibit more behavioral deficits than men.
C) Women exhibit a better history of adjustment than men prior to exhibiting the disorder.
D) Women demonstrate more cognitive impairments than men.

Question 23

______ symptoms of schizophrenia represent the more flagrant symptoms of schizophrenia such as hallucinations, delusions, bizarre behavior, and thought disorder.

A) Primary
B) Secondary
C) Positive
D) Negative

Question 24

Which of the following is a common type of delusion?

A) acceptance
B) sexual arousal
C) transformative
D) grandeur

Question 25

Women tend to develop schizophrenia ______ and have a ______ severe course of the disorder than do men.

A) earlier, less
B) later, less
C) earlier, more
D) later, more

Question 26

In men, the most common age of onset for schizophrenia is between______.

A) 12 and 18
B) 18 and 25
C) 25 and 35
D) 35 and 45

Question 27

Which of the following are the cardinal symptoms of schizophrenia of which at least one must be present for a diagnosis in the DSM-5?

A) delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech
B) catatonia, disturbances of volition, and loss of appetite
C) waxy flexibility, catatonia, and loss of sensory sensations
D) reduced sensation, catatonic behavior, and loss of ego boundaries

Question 28

Compared to men, women tend to achieve a ______ of functioning before the onset of the disorder and have a ______ severe course of the disorder.

A) lower, less
B) higher, less
C) lower, more
D) higher, more

Question 29

The diagnosis for schizophrenia requires that active phase symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized or catatonic behavior must be present a significant amount of the
Time for at least ______.

A) 1 month
B) 3 months
C) 6 months
D) 9 months

Question 30

Dean believes that people on the street talk about him when he walks by. He also believes that the people on the bus are talking about him when he rides the bus to work. At work, he
Believes his coworkers standing at the water-cooler are talking about him. Dean's beliefs
Represent delusions of ______.

A) grandeur
B) persecution
C) reference
D) being controlled

Question 31

The diagnosis of schizophrenia requires that signs of the disorder are present continuously for at least ______ months.

A) 3
B) 6
C) 9
D) 12

Question 32

According to your text, ______ hallucinations are more common in some non-Western cultures than in Western cultures.

A) auditory
B) visual
C) tactile
D) olfactory

Question 33

Men with schizophrenia differ from women with the disorder in which of the following ways?

A) Men have a later age of onset of the disorder than females.
B) Men have fewer cognitive impairments than females.
C) Men exhibit more affective qualities such as depression more often than females.
D) Men exhibit a poorer response to drug therapy than females.

Question 34

Hiram believes he is Martin Luther King, Jr. Despite the fact that he is White, he is alive, and he has never been involved in the civil rights movement, he is absolutely convinced that he
Is Martin Luther King Jr. Hiram's beliefs represent ______.

A) an obsession
B) a compulsion
C) a hallucination
D) a delusion

Question 35

Bob believes that people are spying on him. He claims that the CIA has put a microphone in his dog's stomach so that they can listen to his private conversations. Bob's beliefs represent
Delusions of ______.

A) grandeur
B) persecution
C) reference
D) being controlled

Question 36

Compared to women, men have a ______ risk of developing schizophrenia.

A) significantly lower
B) slightly lower
C) slightly higher
D) significantly higher

Question 37

In women, the most common age of onset for schizophrenia is between ________.

A) 12 and 18
B) 18 and 25
C) 25 and 35
D) 35 and 45

Question 38

Malcolm is a 20-year-old African college student who is hospitalized for acute schizophrenia. Because he is from a non-Western culture, he is more likely to experience ______ than acute schizophrenics in the United States.

A) social withdrawal
B) visual hallucinations
C) muteness
D) delusions of grandeur

Question 39

Schizophrenia is a ______ disorder that affects a ______ range of psychological processes.

A) temporary, narrow
B) temporary, wide
C) pervasive, narrow
D) pervasive, wide

Question 40

The diagnosis of schizophrenia in the DSM-5 requires that at least ______ features of the disorder be present and that at least ___ of these features should include the cardinal symptoms of delusions, hallucinations, or disorganized speech.

A) five, three
B) four, two
C) three, two
D) two, one

Question 41

Gary believes that his thoughts are periodically sucked out of his mind by some external force, leaving him disoriented and confused. His beliefs represent ______ delusions.

A) thought insertion
B) thought broadcasting
C) thought withdrawal
D) thought distortion

Question 42

Hal believes that his actions are being manipulated by evil demons who are trying to possess his body. He truly believes that when he shot those 14 innocent people at his office it was
Because the demons, talking to him through his neighbor's cat, made him do it. Hal's beliefs
Represent delusions of ______.

A) grandeur
B) persecution
C) reference
D) being controlled

Question 43

Keith suffers from schizophrenia. One of his symptoms is that he constantly makes up new words that have little or no meaning to his listeners. When he does this he is engaging in ______.

A) blocking
B) clanging
C) neologisms
D) perseveration

Question 44

Poverty of speech, neologisms, and blocking are signs of ______.

A) an affective disorder
B) a behavioral disorder
C) a thought disorder
D) an attention disorder

Question 45

Jim believes that his next-door neighbor is capable of flashing her thoughts into his mind whenever she wants to. He says, "I will be sitting in my living room, minding my own
Business when suddenly my mind is flooded with her thoughts and I cannot get them out of
My mind." Jim's beliefs represent ______ delusions.

A) thought insertion
B) thought broadcasting
C) thought withdrawal
D) thought transference

Question 46

Words that are made up by the speaker and have little or no meaning to others are known as ______.

A) clanging
B) perseveration
C) neologisms
D) thought intrusions

Question 47

Juan suffers from schizophrenia. One of his symptoms is that while talking to others, Juan will string words together on the basis of rhyming, without regard to the meaning of the words. As
A result, many of his "clever little poems" lack any comprehensible meaning to his listeners.
When Juan does this he is engaging in ______.

A) blocking
B) clanging
C) neologisms
D) perseveration

Question 48

People with schizophrenia who tend to string words together because they rhyme or sound alike are engaging in ______.

A) blocking
B) clanging
C) neologisms
D) perseveration

Question 49

Matt believes that his thoughts leave his head like a ticker-tape and other people can read his mind if they pass the tape through their heads. His thinking represents ______ delusions.

A) thought insertion
B) thought broadcasting
C) thought withdrawal
D) thought distortion

Question 50

Jenny has schizophrenia. She speaks coherently, but very slowly and deliberately. Usually there is little useful content in what she speaks, as her utterances tend to be vague and limited. Her
Symptoms are best described as ______.

A) blocking
B) loose association
C) perseveration
D) poverty of speech

Question 51

Which of the following is true of thought disorders?

A) Many but not all schizophrenic individuals manifest thought disorder.
B) Thought disorder has not been found to exist in normal people.
C) Thought disorder has been only been found to exist among schizophrenics.
D) Thought disorder among schizophrenic individuals tends to be short-lived and reversible.

Question 52

Warren believes he is Jesus Christ. He is convinced he has returned to pass judgment on the world and offer salvation to true Christians. Despite a complete lack of evidence to support his
Beliefs, he remains convinced that he is Christ and that he is all-powerful. Warren's beliefs
Represent delusions of ______.

A) grandeur
B) persecution
C) reference
D) being controlled

Question 53

As Ira watches the evening news, he becomes convinced that the news reporters are broadcasting coded information about him to his friends, neighbors, and enemies.
Ira's beliefs represent delusions of ______.

A) grandeur
B) persecution
C) reference
D) being controlled

Question 54

Melvin suffers from schizophrenia. One of his symptoms is that while talking to others, he will abruptly stop speaking, often in mid-sentence. He complains that he suffers these same types
Of involuntary interruptions in his thoughts, too. Melvin's symptoms represent ______.

A) blocking
B) clanging
C) neologisms
D) perseveration

Question 55

Jose has schizophrenia. His speech patterns are jumbled and disorganized. He strings syllables together nonsensically in meaningless rhymes that are often incoherent to anyone listening. He
Often mixes real words in with word fragments or non-existent words making it impossible for
Others to understand what he is talking about. His symptoms are best described as ______.

A) blocking
B) looseness of association
C) perseveration
D) poverty of speech

Question 56

Jess suffers from schizophrenia. One of his symptoms is that while talking to others Jess will inappropriately, but persistently, keep repeating the same words or thoughts over and over
Again. When he does this he is engaging in ______.

A) blocking
B) clanging
C) neologisms
D) perseveration

Question 57

Inappropriate but persistent repetition of the same words or train of thought is ______.

A) blocking
B) clanging
C) neologisms
D) perseveration

Question 58

Which of the following are signs of a thought disorder?

A) coherent thoughts
B) rapid speech
C) frequent changing of conversational topics
D) blocking

Question 59

The involuntary, abrupt interruption of speech or thought is known as ______.

A) blocking
B) clanging
C) neologisms
D) perseveration

Question 60

The breakdown in the organization, processing, and control of thought common in schizophrenia is called a ______.

A) delusion
B) hallucination
C) thought disorder
D) brief psychotic disorder

Question 61

Recently, investigators reported a(n) ________accuracy in discriminating people with schizophrenia from healthy control subjects based on a set of eye movement indicators.

A) low
B) moderate
C) above average
D) extremely high

Question 62

Sensory images, perceptions, or disturbances that occur in the absence of external stimuli are called ______.

A) obsessions
B) compulsions
C) delusions
D) hallucinations

Question 63

Eye movement dysfunctions have been found to exist among people with ______ disorder.

A) antisocial personality
B) obsessive-compulsive
C) bipolar
D) conversion

Question 64

People with schizophrenia are noted to have a(n) ____ where their eyes do not steadily track a target but instead fall back and then catch up in a kind of jerky movement.

A) eye movement dysfunction
B) visual movement disorder
C) sensory perception dysfunction
D) lethargy transduction

Question 65

Researchers suspect that ______ may be a genetic marker for schizophrenia.

A) eye movement dysfunctions
B) thought disorders
C) hypervigilance
D) attention deficits

Question 66

People with schizophrenia exhibit ______ as a result of greater difficulty filtering out distracting stimuli.

A) sensory deficiency
B) sensory numbness
C) sensory overload
D) sensory excitability

Question 67

Studies of deficiencies in event-related potentials suggest that schizophrenic individuals would have difficulty in ______.

A) looking someone in the eyes
B) filtering out irrelevant stimuli
C) recalling names
D) remembering faces

Question 68

Thought disorders in people with schizophrenia tend to be ______.

A) short-lived and reversible
B) persistent but reversible
C) short-lived but recurrent
D) persistent and recurrent

Question 69

Auditory hallucinations occur in about ______ percent of the cases of schizophrenia.

A) 30
B) 50
C) 75
D) 90

Question 70

Eye movement dysfunction ______ unique to schizophrenia and ______ people with schizophrenia show eye movement dysfunctions.

A) is, all
B) is, not all
C) is not, all
D) is not, not all

Question 71

______ suppress ERPs to repeated stimuli.

A) Neither healthy people nor schizophrenia patients
B) Healthy people, but not schizophrenia patients
C) Schizophrenia patients, but not healthy people
D) Both schizophrenia patients and healthy people

Question 72

John is asked to track a dot as it moves across the screen. Rather than the eyes steadily tracking the target, they fall back and then catch up in a jerky fashion. Which of the following common characteristics of people with schizophrenia does john display?

A) movement disorder
B) sensory reduction
C) transduction disorder
D) eye movement dysfunction

Question 73

The most common form of perceptual disturbances in schizophrenia are ______.

A) obsessions
B) delusions
C) compulsions
D) hallucinations

Question 74

The most common types of hallucinations are ______.

A) auditory
B) visual
C) tactile
D) olfactory

Question 75

Among people with schizophrenia, thought disorder occurs most often during ______.

A) the prodromal phase
B) the chronic phase
C) the residual phase
D) acute episodes

Question 76

Eye movement dysfunctions appear to involve defects in the brain's control of_______.

A) visual attention
B) sensory reduction
C) motor control
D) attention to pain

Question 77

Thought disorders in people experiencing a manic episode tend to be ______.

A) short-lived and reversible
B) persistent but reversible
C) short-lived but recurrent
D) persistent and recurrent

Question 78

A person with schizophrenia is said to be ______ when he or she is acutely sensitive to extraneous sounds.

A) perseverating
B) clanging
C) hypervigilant
D) blocking

Question 79

Brain wave patterns that occur in response to external stimuli like sounds and flashes of light are called ______.

A) alpha waves
B) event-related potentials
C) neurological infarctions
D) delta waves

Question 80

Compared to others, patients with schizophrenia are ______ able to filter out irrelevant information and ______ able to focus on stimuli in ways that allow them to extract
Meaningful information from those stimuli.

A) less, less
B) less, more
C) more, less
D) more, more