Exam 11: Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

There is solid research evidence that families are sometimes directly responsible for causing schizophrenia.

The diagnosis for schizophrenia requires that active phase symptoms such as hallucinations, delusions, and disorganized or catatonic behavior must be present a significant amount of the Time for at least ______.

Hallucinations seem to be related to abnormalities in the production of ______ in the brain.

Which of the following is true of thought disorders?

Hiram believes he is Martin Luther King, Jr. Despite the fact that he is White, he is alive, and he has never been involved in the civil rights movement, he is absolutely convinced that he Is Martin Luther King Jr. Hiram's beliefs represent ______.

Sam has been on antipsychotic drugs for about 8 months. In recent weeks he has begun to frequently blink his eyes, smack his lips, make facial grimaces, pucker his lips, and make Involuntary spasmodic movements of his arms and legs. His symptoms may indicate he has Developed ______.

During the prodromal stage of schizophrenia, some patients return to the residual stage.

Perhaps the most puzzling and disabling of all the mental disorders is ______.

Schizophrenia is a ______ disorder that affects ______ of a person's life.

The most common form of perceptual disturbances in schizophrenia are ______.

Most people with schizophrenia who are discharged from long-term care facilities are successfully reintegrated into the community.

Which of the following appears to be the MOST likely explanation for auditory hallucinations?

Eye movement dysfunctions appear to involve defects in the brain's control of_______.

Investigations of family intervention programs for the treatment of schizophrenia have found that they ______.

Women with schizophrenia differ from men with the disorder in each of the following Ways except

______ claimed in 1961 that mental illness does not exist in his book, The Myth of Mental Illness.

Cognitive-behavior therapists have attempted to train schizophrenic individuals to reattribute their auditory hallucinations to ______.

In women, the most common age of onset for schizophrenia is between ________.

During the ______ phase, the person with schizophrenia's behavior will return to a level where flagrant psychotic symptoms are not present but significant cognitive, social, and emotional deficits are apparent.

Dean believes that people on the street talk about him when he walks by. He also believes that the people on the bus are talking about him when he rides the bus to work. At work, he Believes his coworkers standing at the water-cooler are talking about him. Dean's beliefs Represent delusions of ______.