Final Exam

Question 1

What is schizophrenia?

Answer 1

it is a cognitive and emotial dysfunction that includes hallucitations, delusion, disorganized speech and behavior, and innapropriate behavior.

Question 2

catatonia

Answer 2

A disorder of movement involving immobility or excited agitation.

Question 3

hebephrenia

Answer 3

A silly and immature emotionality, a characteristic of some types of schizophrenia.

Question 4

paranoia

Answer 4

People’s irrational beliefs that they are especially important (delusions of grandeur) or that other people are seeking to do them harm.

Question 5

Dementia praecox

Answer 5

The Latin term meaning premature loss of mind; an early label for what is now called schizophrenia, emphasizing the disorder’s frequent appearance during adolescence.

Question 6

positive symptons

Answer 6

more obvious sign of psychosis that includes delusion and hallucination that are expressed by people with schizophrenia.

Question 7

negative symptons

Answer 7

deals with the absence or insufficent normal behavior. A less outgoing symptom, such as flat affect or poverty of speech, displayed by some people with schizophrenia.

Question 8

avolation

Answer 8

the inability to persits or initiate any type of important activity

Question 9

alogia

Answer 9

the abscence of speech

Question 10

anhedonia

Answer 10

the inability to experience pleasure

Question 11

disorganized symptons

Answer 11

includes a variety of erratic behaviors that affect speech, motor behavior, and emotional reactions.

Question 12

disorganized speech

Answer 12

when one jumps from topic to topic. ones speech is disorganized

Question 13

inappropriate affect

Answer 13

when one laughs or cries during inappropriate moments

Question 14

catatonic immobility

Answer 14

A disturbance of motor behavior in which the person remains motionless, sometimes in an awkward posture, for extended periods

Question 15

what are the subtypes of schizophrenia?

Answer 15

paranoid type
disorganized type
catatonic type
undifferetiated type
residual type

Question 16

paranoid type

Answer 16

A type of schizophrenia in which symptoms primarily involve delusions and hallucinations; speech and motor and emotional behavior are relatively inta

Question 17

disorganized type

Answer 17

A type of schizophrenia featuring disrupted speech and behavior, disjointed delusions and hallucinations, and silly or flat affect.

Question 18

catatonic type

Answer 18

A type of schizophrenia in which motor disturbances (rigidity, agitation, and odd mannerisms) predominate.

Question 19

undifferentiated type

Answer 19

A category for individuals who meet the criteria for schizophrenia but not for one of the defined subtypes.

Question 20

residual type

Answer 20

A diagnostic category for people who have experienced at least one episode of schizophrenia and who no longer display its major symptoms but still show some bizarre thoughts or social withdrawal

Question 21

schizoaffective disorder

Answer 21

A psychotic disorder featuring symptoms of both schizophrenia and major mood disorder.

Question 22

schizotypal personality disorder

Answer 22

A cluster A (odd or eccentric) personality disorder involving a pervasive pattern of interpersonal deficits featuring acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships, as well as cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior.

Question 23

which neurotransmitter is said to be a contributing factor in causing schizophrenia?

Answer 23

dopamine

Question 24

what drug is affective in treating schizophrenia?

Answer 24

antipsychotic drugs(neuroleptics) 
they are dopamine antaganist which partially block the brains use of dopamine

Question 25

what is a negative side affect that neuroleptic drugs cause?

Answer 25

cause side effect like those of parkisons disease. this is caused by insufficient dopamine

Question 26

What is Drug L-dopa?

Answer 26

it is an dopamine agonist used to treat people with parkisons disease

Question 27

what does amphetamines do to people who have schizophrenia?

Answer 27

it activates dopamine and it makes psychotic symptons worse in people who have schizophrenia

Question 28

what are some aspects of personality disorders?

Answer 28

personality disorders are chronic and never disapper. It originates in childhood and continue in adulthood

Question 29

Cluster A

Answer 29

Odd or Eccentric cluster that includes: paranoid, schizoid, and schozotypal personality disorders.

Question 30

Cluster B

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Erratic, emotional, or dramatic cluster that includes; boderline, antisocial, histrionic, and narcissitic personality disorders

Question 31

Cluster C

Answer 31

Anxious or fearful cluster that includes: avoidant, dependant, and obsesive compulsive disorders.

Question 32

what is the percentage of people being diagnos with a personality disorder?

Answer 32

1 in 10 adults can be diagnos with a personality disorder

Question 33

what personality disorder are women mostly diagnos with?

Answer 33

Boarderline personality disorder

Question 34

what personality disorder are men mostly diagnos with

Answer 34

anti social personality disorder

Question 35

schizoid personality disorder

Answer 35

A cluster A (odd or eccentric) personality disorder featuring a pervasive pattern of detachment from social relationships and a restricted range of expression of emotions.

Question 36

schizotypal personality disorder

Answer 36

A cluster A (odd or eccentric) personality disorder involving a pervasive pattern of interpersonal deficits featuring acute discomfort with, and reduced capacity for, close relationships, as well as cognitive or perceptual distortions and eccentricities of behavior.

Question 37

antisocail personalty disorder

Answer 37

A cluster B (dramatic, emotional, or erratic) personality disorder involving a pervasive pattern of disregard for and violation of the rights of others. Similar to the non-DSM-IV-TR label psychopathy but with greater emphasis on overt behavior than on personality traits.

Question 38

Boderline personality disorder

Answer 38

A cluster B (dramatic, emotional, or erratic) personality disorder involving a pervasive pattern of instability of interpersonal relationships, self-image, affect, and control over impulses.

Question 39

boderline personality disorder

Answer 39

People with this personality disorder are often intense, going from anger to deep depression in a short time. Dysfunction in the area of emotion is sometimes considered one of the core features of borderline personality disorder

Question 40

What is usually accompanied by boderline personality disorder

Answer 40

self mutalation is usually followed by boderline personalirt disorder

Question 41

histrionic personality disorder

Answer 41

A cluster B (dramatic, emotional, or erratic) personality disorder involving a pervasive pattern of excessive emotionality and attention seeking.

Question 42

narcissistic personality disorder

Answer 42

A cluster B (dramatic, emotional, or erratic) personality disorder involving a pervasive pattern of grandiosity in fantasy or behavior, need for admiration, and lack of empathy.

Question 43

avoidant personality disorder

Answer 43

extremely sensitive to the opinions of others and therefore avoid most relationships.

Question 44

dependent personality disorder

Answer 44

characterized by a person's pervasive and excessive need to be taken care of, a condition that leads to submissive and clinging behavior and fears of separation

Question 45

obsesive compulsive personality disorder

Answer 45

preoccupation with orderliness, perfectionism, and mental and interpersonal control at the expense of flexibility, openness, and efficiency.