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Ch. 12 Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

Ch. 12 Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

Pregunta 1 de 39

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The DSM-5 criteria for brief psychotic disorder indicate that the duration of the disturbance must be less than

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. one day.

  • b. one week.

  • c. one month.

  • d. Six months.

Explicación

Pregunta 2 de 39

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47. The case of Arthur (described in your textbook), who suddenly experienced the delusion that he could save all the starving children in the world with a “secret plan,” but whose symptoms lasted only a few days, was diagnosed with

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. schizotypal personality disorder.

  • b. folie à deux (shared psychotic disorder).

  • c. brief psychotic disorder.

  • d. cocaine abuse.

Explicación

Pregunta 3 de 39

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38. Callie has been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder. This means that in addition to schizophrenica symptoms, she also has symptoms of

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. an anxiety disorder.

  • b. a mood disorder.

  • c. a split personality.

  • d. obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Explicación

Pregunta 4 de 39

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39. In which of the following disorders are hallucinations and delusions NOT part of the symptom pattern?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. Schizotypal personality disorder

  • b. Schizoaffective disorder

  • c. Schizophreniform disorder

  • d. Brief psychotic disorder

Explicación

Pregunta 5 de 39

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Antoinette believes that her brother is not really her brother and that he has, in fact, been replaced by a double. This is known as _______________ syndrome.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. Capgras

  • b. Cotard

  • c. Barlow

  • d. Durand

Explicación

Pregunta 6 de 39

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19. Which of the following defines Cotard syndrome?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. A familiar person is actually a double.

  • b. You are a famous or important person.

  • c. People are out to get you.

  • d. One is actually dead.

Explicación

Pregunta 7 de 39

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Tardive dyskinesia, a severe side effect of antipsychotic medications, includes all of the following involuntary movements EXCEPT

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. chewing.

  • b. puffing of the cheeks.

  • c. tongue protrusion.

  • d. grinding of the teeth.

Explicación

Pregunta 8 de 39

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Tardive dyskinesia, a condition that can occur in patients who take antipsychotic medications,

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. can result from short-term use.

  • b. can result from low doses.

  • c. occurs in less than 2% of patients.

  • d. may often be irreversible.

Explicación

Pregunta 9 de 39

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68. Manuella would respond coolly when her daughter embraced her, but when the child tried to pull away Manuella would say, “Don’t you love me anymore?” This is an example of

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. a schizophrenogenic mother.

  • b. double-bind communication.

  • c. expressed emotion.

  • d. none of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 10 de 39

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76. Though no longer used, the word schizophrenogenic was first proposed in the 1940s to describe

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. an abusive and alcoholic father whose child became schizophrenic.

  • b. an emotionally distant mother whose child became schizophrenic.

  • c. divorced parents who had several psychotic children.

  • d. a family in which relatives on both sides were psychotic.

Explicación

Pregunta 11 de 39

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Research studies on the genetic basis of schizophrenia have focused on high-risk individuals including all of the following EXCEPT

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. healthy twins of schizophrenic patients.

  • b. adopted children of schizophrenic parents.

  • c. family members or relatives of schizophrenics.

  • d. children adopted by schizophrenic mothers.

Explicación

Pregunta 12 de 39

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73. Schizophrenia appears to be more frequently diagnosed in minorities in a number of countries. An explanation for this is:

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. people from devalued ethnic minority groups may be victims of bias and stereotyping.

  • b. it may be the result of misdiagnosis.

  • c. the levels of stress associated with stigma and isolation.

  • d. all of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 13 de 39

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Current research suggests that

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. environmental stress may trigger schizophrenia.

  • b. genes cause schizophrenia.

  • c. genes carried by a fetus may make it vulnerable to schizophrenia.

  • d. all of these

Explicación

Pregunta 14 de 39

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Childhood maltreatment or abuse can raise the risk of developing _____.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • depression,

  • personality disorders

  • anxiety.

  • schizophrenia and related psychoses

  • all of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 15 de 39

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Which of the following was the main characteristic of dementia praecox, according to Emil Kraepelin?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. Silly and immature behavior

  • b. Mental weakness

  • c. Alternating immobility and agitated excitement

  • d. Delusions of grandeur or persecution

Explicación

Pregunta 16 de 39

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The term "schizophrenia" was introduced circa 1908 by a Swiss psychiatrist named

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. Emil Kraepelin.

  • b. Sigmund Freud.

  • c. Eugen Bleuler.

  • d. Phillipe Pinel.

Explicación

Pregunta 17 de 39

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Which of the following is the part of Kraepelin’s definition of paranoia?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. Silly and immature behavior

  • b. Early madness

  • c. Alternating immobility and agitated excitement

  • d. Delusions of grandeur or persecution

Explicación

Pregunta 18 de 39

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9. In the late 1800s, the German psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin made all of the following contributions to our knowledge of schizophrenia EXCEPT


Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. distinguished dementia praecox (schizophrenia) from manic-depressive illness.

  • b. noted that hallucinations, delusions, and negativism were symptoms of dementia praecox (schizophrenia).

  • c. combined several symptoms of insanity (catatonia, paranoia, hebephrenia) that had usually been viewed as reflecting separate and distinct disorders.

  • d. conceptualized a treatment for patients with schizophrenia that is still being used today.

Explicación

Pregunta 19 de 39

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8. Which of the following is the definition of dementia praecox?


Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. Silly and immature behavior

  • b. Early madness

  • c. Alternating immobility and agitated excitement

  • d. Delusions of grandeur or persecution

Explicación

Pregunta 20 de 39

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In the 1800s, physicians studying the disorder we now call schizophrenia used the term ________ because they observed that the onset of symptoms often occurred before adulthood.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. adolescent insanity

  • b. folie à deux

  • c. catatonia previa

  • d. dementia praecox

Explicación

Pregunta 21 de 39

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According to statistical data, the prevalence of schizophrenia is about ________.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. .01%

  • b. 1%

  • c. 5%

  • d. 10%

Explicación

Pregunta 22 de 39

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What is the evidence for structural damage in the brains of schizophrenic patients?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. All schizophrenic patients have smaller ventricles in their brains.

  • b. In some schizophrenic patients, there is an excess amount of "gray matter" in the cerebral cortex.

  • c. The majority of schizophrenic patients have enlarged ventricles in their brains.

  • d. Many schizophrenic patients have increased activity in the frontal lobes of the brain.

Explicación

Pregunta 23 de 39

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The term "schizophrenia" was introduced circa 1908 by a Swiss psychiatrist named

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. Emil Kraepelin.

  • b. Sigmund Freud.

  • c. Eugen Bleuler.

  • d. Phillipe Pinel.

Explicación

Pregunta 24 de 39

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Endophenotyping refers to looking for

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. a gene or genes that cause the symptoms or behaviors of schizophrenia.

  • b. basic processes that contribute to symptoms of the disorder.

  • c. basic processes that contribute to behaviors of schizophrenia.

  • d. all of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 25 de 39

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Of the various genetic linkage and association studies, the one that seems to be a possible "marker" for schizophrenia involves ____________________.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. eye-tracking

  • b. dopamine sites

  • c. unusual facial features

  • d. blood type

Explicación

Pregunta 26 de 39

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Given the research on schizophrenia involving the offspring of twins, all of the following are accurate statements EXCEPT that

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. the child of a schizophrenic identical twin has the same risk (17 percent) of having the disorder as the child of the non-schizophrenic identical twin.

  • b. the child of a non-schizophrenic fraternal twin has about a 2 percent risk of having the disorder.

  • c. a mentally healthy individual with a schizophrenic parent cannot pass on a genetic predisposition for the disorder to his or her offspring.

  • d. an individual can be free from schizophrenia but still be a “carrier.”

Explicación

Pregunta 27 de 39

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57. Research studies focusing on genetic factors in schizophrenia have found that

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. an individual with a schizophrenic identical twin has the highest risk factor (almost 50 percent) of developing schizophrenia.

  • b. in family studies of schizophrenia, the genetic influence can be separated from the environmental impact.

  • c. if one person in a family has a particular subtype of schizophrenia, e.g., paranoid, the other family members inherit a predisposition for that subtype only.

  • d. the more severe a parent’s schizophrenic disorder, the less likely the children are to develop it.

Explicación

Pregunta 28 de 39

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The Genain quadruplets Nora, Iris, Myra and Hester showed us that

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. The course, symptoms and prognosis of schizophrenia can vary even among quadruplets raised in the same household

  • b. The course, symptoms and prognosis of schizophrenia can be determined by birth weight

  • c. Schizophrenia is almost entirely genetic in its etiology

  • d. Having the same family environment largely ensures the same outcome in schizophrenia

Explicación

Pregunta 29 de 39

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In the 1950s, several drugs provided the first hope that schizophrenia is treatable. They were called

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. anticonvulsants

  • b. antipsychotics

  • c. antibiotics

  • d. neuroleptics

Explicación

Pregunta 30 de 39

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65. Which of the following statements reflects “circumstantial evidence” for the dopamine theory of schizophrenia?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. Antipsychotic drugs (neuroleptics) act as dopamine agonists, increasing the amount of dopamine in the brain.

  • b. Antipsychotic drugs (neuroleptics) can produce symptoms similar to those of Parkinson’s disease (a disorder due to insufficient dopamine).

  • c. The drug L-dopa, a dopamine agonist, is used to treat schizophrenic symptoms in patients with Parkinson’s disease.

  • d. Amphetamines, which activate dopamine, can lessen psychotic symptoms in people with schizophrenia.

Explicación

Pregunta 31 de 39

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Which of the following statements is true?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. Some people respond well to the newer antipsychotic drugs.

  • b. The newer antipsychotic drugs show promise for helping patients who were previously unresponsive to medications.

  • c. Recent research found that second-generation antipsychotic meds were no more effective than the older drugs.

  • d. All of the above

Explicación

Pregunta 32 de 39

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Schizophrenia is associated with “positive symptoms” that include

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. hallucinations and delusions.

  • b. Good mood.

  • c. avolition.

  • d. catatonia.

Explicación

Pregunta 33 de 39

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The most common type of hallucination experienced by psychotic individuals is

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. visual.

  • b. auditory.

  • c. tactile.

  • d. olfactory.

Explicación

Pregunta 34 de 39

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Research using brain imaging techniques has localized auditory hallucinations in the part of the brain called

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. Wernicke’s area.

  • b. Broca’s area.

  • c. the occipital lobe.

  • d. the limbic system.

Explicación

Pregunta 35 de 39

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Which of the following occurs when drugs are administered to patients with schizophrenia?

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. Drugs that increase dopamine (agonists) cause an increase in schizophrenic behavior.

  • b. Drugs that decrease dopamine (antagonists) decrease schizophrenic symptoms.

  • c. Both a and b

  • d. Neither a nor b

Explicación

Pregunta 36 de 39

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The negative symptom of schizophrenia called avolition is defined as

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. inability to initiate and persist in activities.

  • b. inability to experience pleasure.

  • c. lack of emotional response, blank facial expression.

  • d. lack of speech content and/or slowed speech response.

Explicación

Pregunta 37 de 39

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Dr. Smith conducted a research study involving schizophrenic adults in which her looked at their facial expressions in home movies taken when they were children. He was trying to determine if the development of schizophrenia could be predicted by facial expressions showing limited emotional reactions. This research study focused on the negative symptom called _________.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. alogia

  • b. affective flattening

  • c. associative splitting

  • d. emotional effect syndrome

Explicación

Pregunta 38 de 39

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Mort has displayed a number of schizophrenic symptoms. An obvious one was his lack of speech content manifested in nonsensical ramblings and slowed speech response. This symptom is called ______________.

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. anhedonia

  • b. avolition

  • c. clanging

  • d. alogia

Explicación

Pregunta 39 de 39

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The negative schizophrenic symptom called anhedonia is defined as

Selecciona una de las siguientes respuestas posibles:

  • a. inability to initiate and persist in activities.

  • b. inability to experience pleasure.

  • c. lack of emotional response, blank facial expression.

  • d. lack of speech content and/or slowed speech response.

Explicación

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