Exam 10: Schizophrenia Spectrum and Other Psychotic Disorders

People with schizophrenia appear to have difficulty filtering out irrelevant distracting stimuli,a deficit that makes it nearly impossible to focus their ______ and organize their thoughts.

People with schizophrenia whose families are high in expressed emotion tend to show ________ adjustment and have ________ rates of relapse following release from hospital.

Which of the following theorists would label hallucinations and delusions as "secondary" symptoms of schizophrenia?

Which of the following is not a factor in identifying individuals at high risk of developing schizophrenia?

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

People with schizophrenia display ________ facial expression as normal people when viewing emotion-eliciting films,and they report experiencing ________ positive and negative emotion.

Schneider's second-rank symptoms are only found in schizophrenia.

The mode of genetic transmission in schizophrenia remains unknown.

People with schizophrenia may show highly excited or wild behaviour or slow to a state of_____.

Up to __% of people with schizophrenia abuse substances at some point in their life.

Research has linked each of the following with increased risk of schizophrenia EXCEPT ________.

The prenatal complication of __________ has been associated with schizophrenia.

________ symptoms appear to represent the more enduring and persistent characteristics of schizophrenia.

Which of the following theorists would label disturbances in mood and confused thinking as "second-rank" symptoms of schizophrenia?

Researchers have found decreased frontal lobe activity in schizophrenia.

Dale 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 NOT one of the three dimensions suggested by recent research for grouping schizophrenic symptoms?

People with schizophrenia appear to be hypervigilant.

If detected early,the symptoms of schizophrenia can be reduced.

As a patient in a mental hospital,Isaac can earn poker chips for engaging in adaptive behaviours 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 ________.