Exam 11: Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

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

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.

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 ______.

Which of the following is a common type of delusion?

Asians tend to require ______ doses of neuroleptics than Caucasians to achieve an optimal response. They tend to experience ______ side-effects from the same dosage.

Which of the following neurotransmitters appear to be involved in schizophrenia?

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.

People with schizophrenia show reduced brain activity in the ______.

Haughton and Ayllon conditioned a woman with chronic schizophrenia to cling to a broom by ______.

The most frequent age of onset for schizophrenia is ______.

Rob believes that foul, swamp-like odors are emanating from his body. He believes they are caused by parasites eating away at his insides. He is suffering from the ______ type of Delusional disorder.

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?

Visual hallucinations are the most common type of hallucination in people with schizophrenia.

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?

Hallucinations are unique to people with schizophrenia.

Cross-cultural studies from Europe and the United States confirm an increased risk of schizophrenia in people who ______.

Thought disorders in people with schizophrenia tend to be ______.

People having grief-induced hallucinations ______ differentiate them from reality, and people having schizophrenic hallucinations ______ differentiate them from reality.

Jake has persistent beliefs that his boss is out to kill him. Although his behavior is otherwise normal, Jake is convinced that because he embarrassed his boss a few months ago, his boss is Now out to get even by having him killed. While his beliefs are certainly possible, it turns Out that his boss has no desire at all to kill him. Jake is most likely suffering from ______.

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 ______.