Exam 11: Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

The part of the brain that serves as a sort of mental clipboard for holding information needed to guide organized behavior and for regulating attention is the ______.

Malcolm is a 20-year-old African college student who is hospitalized for acute schizophrenia. Because he is from a non-Western culture, he is more likely to experience ______ than acute schizophrenics in the United States.

Freud believed that traditional psychoanalysis was not well-suited to the treatment of schizophrenia.

According to psychodynamic theory, the period in which the infant has not yet learned that the world and itself are two distinct entities is known as the period of ______.

How do schizoaffective disorder and schizophrenia differ? Discuss the role of affect in the distinction between the two disorders.

Freud's followers, such as Harry Stack Sullivan, placed ______ in the development of schizophrenia.

No single treatment approach meets all the needs of people with schizophrenia.

The mode of genetic transmission in schizophrenia remains unknown.

An important potentially adverse side effect of clozapine is ______.

Adoption studies of schizophrenia have found that schizophrenia ______ when they are raised by normal adoptive parents.

The clinical syndrome that best corresponds to popular conceptions of "madness" or "lunacy" is ______.

Erotomania is a delusion involving the person's physical or medical condition.

Hallucinations are the most common form of perceptual disturbances among people with schizophrenia.

One source of evidence supporting the dopamine model of schizophrenia comes from observing the effects of ______.

Tracy has schizophrenia. Prior to the rapid onset of symptoms, Tracy was a first-year college student at a local liberal arts college where she was active and involved in the residence life community. Her behavior suddenly became characterized by hallucinations, delusions, talking to herself in the dining hall and classes. She has stopped bathing and does not changes her clothes. The description of Tracy's behavior suggests that she was experiencing the ___________ phase of schizophrenia.

According to the text, the most prominent finding of pathology in the brains of schizophrenics is ______.