Exam 11: Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders

In the DSM-5, a brief psychotic disorder is one that lasts for no more than ______.

Some recent studies have found ______ to be promising in reducing delusions and hallucinations in medication-resistant schizophrenics.

To Szasz, mental illnesses are really ______.

The newest generation of drugs to treat schizophrenia are called ______.

Brain wave patterns that occur in response to external stimuli like sounds and flashes of light are called ______.

Words that are made up by the speaker and have little or no meaning to others are known as ______.

Which of the following is one of the three phases typical of schizophrenia?

According to your text, ______ hallucinations are more common in some non-Western cultures than in Western cultures.

The diathesis-stress model of schizophrenia was formulated by ______.

Psychodynamic theory asserts that schizophrenia represents ______.

Most cases of schizophrenia show a slower and more gradual decline in functioning.

Evidence for a genetic contribution to the development of schizophrenia is ______.

Research has shown that ______ percent of children with two schizophrenic parents develop schizophrenia.

As a patient in a mental hospital, Ethan can earn poker chips for engaging in adaptive behaviors such as attending meetings, maintaining proper grooming, and using appropriate Communications. When he collects enough chips, he can exchange them for rewards such as Privacy time, food, passes, and other privileges. This approach is called ______.

Catatonia is more common in people with ______ than with schizophrenia.

_____________ are outward expressions of traits, such as eye color or observed behavior.

Drug-induced hallucinations tend to be ______.

People with schizophrenia are noted to have a(n) ____ where their eyes do not steadily track a target but instead fall back and then catch up in a kind of jerky movement.

Drugs developed in the past few years not only treat schizophrenia but can cure it in many cases.

The idea that schizophrenia results from being raised by a schizophrenogenic mother is _______.