Chapter 9 Flashcards
The first-generation antipsychotic drugs for treating schizophrenia
enable people with schizophrenia to adjust to hospital life commonly produce depressive side-effects generally only reduce the positive symptoms of schizophrenia are effective for less than half of the people with schizophrenia
generally only reduce the positive symptoms of schizophrenia
Studies of children whose mothers had schizophrenia but were raised by adopted parents indicate
that there is not a strong genetic factor in the development of schizophrenia
that there is a strong genetic factor in the development of schizophrenia
that children who were adopted into homes with low EE were more likely to develop schizophrenia
These studies have been inconclusive
that there is a strong genetic factor in the development of schizophrenia
Connie is receiving psychological therapy for schizophrenia. A major focus has been practicing more effective methods for dealing with others, as well as basic life skills such as ordering in restaurants, filling out applications for employment, and reading train schedules. She is likely receiving
ego analysis
psychoeducation
social skills training
token economy
social skills training
Data on expressed emotion (EE) indicate that those with schizophrenia are more likely to relapse (that is, return to the hospital) if their families
are cool, calm, unemotional, and aloof
are uninvolved
are critical and over-involved with them
provide excessive emotional support and encouragement
are critical and over-involved with them
Roger has a vacant stare. He answers questions in an apathetic, monotone voice, and shows no emotion, even when discussing events such as his mother’s death. Roger’s affect would be described as
depressed
inappropriate
aggravated
flat or blunted
flat or blunted
According to the DSM-5, symptoms of schizophrenia must be present for at least __________ in order to be diagnosed.
2 weeks
6 months
1 year
2 years
6 months
A puzzling finding from research on medication for schizophrenia is that
although the medications begin blocking dopamine receptors rapidly, it takes several weeks for the medications to begin lessening positive symptoms
medications that influence other neurotransmitter systems have no effect.
there is no association between degree of brain abnormality and medication effect.
medications do not appear to affect schizophrenia attributed primarily to the environment
although the medications begin blocking dopamine receptors rapidly, it takes several weeks for the medications to begin lessening positive symptoms
Among men, schizophrenia usually appears in
early childhood
middle or late childhood
adolescence or early adulthood
late adulthood
adolescence or early adulthood
Most hallucinations experienced by those with schizophrenia are
visual
tactile
auditory
olfactory
auditory
Positive symptoms of schizophrenia include all of the following EXCEPT
hallucinations
delusions
avolition
both A and B
avolition
Studies of socioeconomic class (SES) and schizophrenia find that the rate of schizophrenia
is about equal in low SES and high SES individuals
is higher in low SES individuals
is higher in high SES individuals
cannot be determined
is higher in low SES individuals
When a person incorporates unimportant events within a delusional framework and reads personal significance into trivial activities of others it is called
grandiose delusions
hallucinations
delusions of reference
absence of logic
delusions of reference
A consistent brain abnormality found among people with schizophrenia is
frontal lobe enlargement
parietal lobe enlargement
enlarged ventricles
interrupted tracts in the reticular formation
enlarged ventricles
