Chaper 10

Question 1

What is the Freudian term for the anxiety-driven condition that results when id impulses threaten to overwhelm the ego?

Answer 1

Neurosis

Question 2

What is the term for a severe psychological disturbance involving personality disorganization and loss of contact with reality?

Answer 2

Psychosis

Question 3

What is the term for the use of a word because of its sound rather than its meaning?

Answer 3

Clanging

Question 4

What do you call a new word that a speaker invents?

Answer 4

Neologism

Question 5

What is the term for impoverished speech that conveys little information?

Answer 5

Alogia

Question 6

What is the term for the repetition of words or phrases spoken by another person?

Answer 6

Echolalia

Question 7

What is a false belief that is firmly held, contrary to evidence and the consensus of other people?

Answer 7

Delusion

Question 8

What is the term for a sensation or perception in the absence of an external source?

Answer 8

Hallucination

Question 9

What do you call the incorrect perception of sensory stimuli?

Answer 9

Illusion

Question 10

What is the term for unusual movement or immobility associated with psychosis?

Answer 10

Catatonia

Question 11

What is the refusal to speak called?

Answer 11

Mutism

Question 12

What is the term for repetitively imitating the movements of others?

Answer 12

Echopraxia

Question 13

What is the lack of range of emotions known as?

Answer 13

Affective flattening

Question 14

What is the term for the loss of interest or pleasure in all aspects of life?

Answer 14

Anhedonia

Question 15

What do you call the inability to initiate and complete goal-directed activities?

Answer 15

Avolition

Question 16

What is an observable trait that can serve as a biomarker for a disorder?

Answer 16

Endophenotype

Question 17

What is the theory that schizophrenia may be caused in utero by viral infection of the mother?

Answer 17

Viral risk hypothesis

Question 18

What is the expression of criticism, hostility, and emotional overinvolvement within family dynamics called?

Answer 18

Expressed emotion (EE)

Question 19

Symptoms such as delusions, hallucinations, and grossly impaired speech or movements are considered what type of evidence of psychosis?

Answer 19

Direct or positive evidence

Question 20

A person in a psychotic state may employ what term, which involves the use of a word not because of its meaning but because of its sound?

Answer 20

Clanging

Question 21

If a patient keeps repeating everything that Dr. Napen asked, what condition are they presenting with?

Answer 21

Echolalia

Question 22

If Robert believes that Beyoncé was in love with him, even though she has never met him, what type of delusion does he have?

Answer 22

Erotomanic delusion

Question 23

Which of the following is not an example of catatonia: Grimacing, waxy flexibility, unpredictable movements, laughing?

Answer 23

Laughing

Question 24

Who introduced the term schizophrenia in 1911 to refer to a split between thought processes and emotions?

Answer 24

Bleuler

Question 25

What is the term for the difficulty in showing an interest in work or in completing goal-directed activities in schizophrenia?

Answer 25

Avolition

Question 26

Brief psychotic disorder involves the sudden onset of at least one positive psychotic symptom that lasts more than what duration but does not persist more than what duration?

Answer 26

More than 1 day / not more than 1 month

Question 27

What is the best estimate of the concordance rate for schizophrenia between monozygotic twins?

Answer 27

28%

Question 28

Among the frequent side effects of heavy and prolonged use of what medication for schizophrenia are symptoms that resemble Parkinson’s disease?

Answer 28

Phenothiazines

Question 29

Which groups in the United States show higher rates of schizophrenia than the general population? A. rural residents B. first- and second-generation immigrants C. upper-middle class D. all of the above

Answer 29

First- and second-generation immigrants

Question 30

Schizophrenia, like what condition, may be a product of the long-term effects of severe trauma?

Answer 30

PTSD

Question 31

What was the first medication used widely to treat schizophrenia?

Answer 31

Chlorpromazine

Question 32

In delusional disorder, what occurs? A. The person behaves relatively normally. B. Delusions and hallucinations predominate. C. Delusions usually include sensory misperceptions. D. Disorganized speech is often the only obvious symptom.

Answer 32

The person behaves relatively normally.

Question 33

Expressed emotion in families is thought to influence what aspect of patients with schizophrenia?

Answer 33

Probability of relapse

Question 34

Cynthia was walking down the street and kept noticing messages in windows that were speaking directly to her. She thought they were telling her things to do. Cynthia‘s psychotic beliefs are most likely what type of delusion?

Answer 34

Delusions of reference.

Question 35

MZ twins, without evidence of having shared a placenta show about _______ concordance for schizophrenia, while MZ twins, with the evidence of a shared placenta show _______ concordance.

Answer 35

10%; 60%