Exam 10: Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

High-risk children (children whose biological parents had schizophrenia)are almost __________ times as likely to develop schizophrenia as those of nonschizophrenic biological parents,regardless of whether they were reared by a parent with schizophrenia.

Speech that is coherent but limited in production or vague is known as _________.

The evidence that such family factors as negative family interactions can lead to schizophrenia in children who do not have a genetic vulnerability is ________.

Most people with schizophrenia are more withdrawn rather than violent.

Type II schizophrenia corresponds to a set of positive symptoms.

Aggression is one of the "four As" developed by Kraepelin to describe schizophrenia.

The ________ plays a key role in regulating emotions and higher mental functions,including memory.

Disordered thought has been found to occur among normal people.

Which of the following is NOT a learning-based therapeutic technique typically used to treat schizophrenia?

Research has shown that ________ % children with one schizophrenic parent develop schizophrenia.

Marcus believes that his actions are being manipulated by evil demons who are trying to possess his body.He truly believes that when he shot 14 innocent people at his office it was because the demons,talking to him through his neighbour's cat,made him do it.Marcus's beliefs represent delusions of ________.

Cino has schizophrenia.He often hears voices telling him to run away or to harm others.He feels compelled to do what the voices tell him to do.Cino is experiencing ________.

Hallucinations seem to be related to the activity of ________ in the brain.

In Bleuler's view,associations,affect,ambivalence,and autism are ________ symptoms of schizophrenia.

Living in a family that is hostile,critical,and unsupportive can increase the risk of relapse in people with schizophrenia.

In developed countries,about ________ % of people sampled experience occasional hallucinations.

About ________ out of 5 people with command hallucinations report that they have obeyed them.

Dementia praecox was renamed schizophrenia by ________.

Drug-induced hallucinations tend to be ________.

Bleuler believed that schizophrenia could be recognized on the basis of ________ primary features or symptoms.